As well as The Fiftieth Gate, A Journey Through Memory, a seminal book on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, Mark Raphael Baker wrote a compelling memoir, Thirty Days, A Journey to the End of Love, about the death of his wife. He was Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the School at Monash University, Melbourne. He died in 2023.

ABC: Religion and Ethics: Remembering Mark Raphael Baker (1959 – 2023): Historian, teacher, writer, father, husband    
Obituary by Raimond Gaita in the Conversation