Inspired by Jewish values and the vision and resilience of our founder, David J. Azrieli z”l, the Azrieli Foundation’s mission is to improve the lives of present and future generations through Education, Research, Healthcare and the Arts mainly in Canada and Israel. The foundation has eight priority funding areas with support reaching a diversity of people, places and needs. Our vision is to remember the past, heal the present and enhance the future of the Jewish people and all humanity.
The publication of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs is guid- ed by the conviction that each survivor of the Holocaust has a remarkable story to tell, and that the personal accounts of those who survived against all odds are as different as the people who wrote them. Recognizing that most survivor memoirs never find a publisher, the Azrieli Foundation established the not-for-profit Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program to collect, archive and publish these distinctive records.
All revenues to the Azrieli Foundation from the sale of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs go toward continuing the publication and edu- cational work of the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program.
In telling these stories, the writers have liberated themselves. For so many years we did not speak about it, even when we became free people living in a free society. Now, when at last we are writing about what happened to us in this dark period of history, knowing that our stories will be read and live on, it is possible for us to feel truly free. These unique historical documents put a face on what was lost, and allow readers to grasp the enormity of what happened to six million Jews – one story at a time.
David J. Azrieli, C.M., C.Q., M.Arch. Holocaust survivor and founder, The Azrieli Foundation Highlights: 75 Years since Liberation
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At ten years old, liberated Detailed account of lib- Liberated from a death while in hiding and passing eration after being in six march as a Catholic concentration camps Returns home to devas- Orphaned after the war, Examines dynamics be- tating loss, feeling like a reunites with one family tween Jews and Germans stranger in her hometown member in 1946 while living in Germany Spends close to three years for two years after the war Discusses the struggles be- in a displaced persons tween her Catholic identity Returns to Poland, and to camp in Italy, waiting to and reclaiming her Jewish Auschwitz-Birkenau, in find a home identity 1975 New Titles 4 new titles
In Dreams Together: The Diary of Leslie Fazekas Leslie Fazekas
My dear Judy! September 1, which I some of which he used to write his have been awaiting for so long, will accompanying post-war memoir, be here soon. I have thought a lot included in this volume. about this day. It is the day when you and I are supposed to be reunited. I About the author imagined that I would be waiting for Leslie Fazekas was born in Debrecen, you in the late summer sunshine. You Hungary, in 1925. After the war, he would come toward me, joyously, and reunited with Judy and they married then we would never have to part on May 19, 1949. In 1956, they fled from each other again. Hungary and immigrated to Toronto, where Leslie worked as a draftsman, a draft In the summer of 1944, Leslie computer programmer and a systems Fazekas and his family are deported analyst and consultant. Leslie and from their hometown of Debrecen, Judy live in Toronto and they have Hungary, to Vienna, Austria, as two sons, two grandchildren and two forced labourers. It is only after great-grandchildren. They celebrated the war that they discover that seventy years of marriage in 2019. most of the cattle car trains from 6×9 paperback their hometown were destined for 184 pages with photos Auschwitz. Fate and fortune have isbn 978 1 988065 69 4 intervened to save their lives, and $14.95 in the devastating circumstances of June 2020 their captivity, Leslie details all of his experiences in diary entries and letters to his girlfriend, Judit, who he was separated from in Vienna. Leslie’s diary entries and letters from August 10, 1944, to April 2, 1945, are not only love letters but also ISBN 9781988065694 precious archival documents and a testimony of his family’s survival during a harrowing time. In 1955, Leslie continued writing in a diary, a practice he kept until 7819889 065694 2013 and which has produced ap- proximately 550 pages of life writing, 5 new titles
Fragments of Hope Rachel Lisogurski and Chana Broder
I often wonder now how I could even tives of both mother and daughter, have thought of running away. Where Fragments of Hope brings light into a did I get my faith in the future? But world of darkness. my mind was always busy. The ques- tion of where I would hide didn't stop About the authors hammering in my head. How will we Rachel Lisogurski (1911–1998) was hide? What will I do? And every time born in the village of Grodzisk, I thought about it, I reached the same Poland, and her daughter, Chana decision: I'll try; I have nothing to Broder, was born in Siemiatycze, lose. And I did have some hope — Poland, in 1938. After the war, the I knew so many gentiles. Maybe one Lisogurski family spent two and a half draft of them would help us. years in the Cremona displaced per- sons camp in Italy before immigrating When Rachel and her hus- to Montreal in 1948. In 1967, Rachel band, Abraham, escape from the wrote her memoir, then titled Out of Siemiatycze ghetto one cold win- the Depths. In 1972, Chana moved ter night in 1942 with their four- to Israel, where she taught English year-old daughter, Chana, they are as a foreign language for more than 6×9 paperback desperate for refuge. Turned away twenty years. Chana completed her 226 pages with photos by the one person they thought they memoir in 2017, after reuniting with isbn 978 1 988065 58 8 could depend on, they are forced the descendants of the Polish people $14.95 to ask for help from strangers and who saved her family’s life during June 2020 acquaintances. During the twenty- the Holocaust and having them one months that they are hidden recognized as Righteous Among the by courageous farmers, Rachel and Nations. Chana Broder lives in Israel. Abraham fiercely protect Chana, who is taught never to cry, never to make a sound. After liberation, as Rachel and Abraham are haunted by the past, Chana’s childhood truly ISBN 9781988065588 begins. Too young then to fully understand what they have survived, it is only later in life that Chana real- izes she must preserve her family’s legacy and honour those who res- 7819889 065588 cued them. Told from the perspec- 6 new titles
A Cry in Unison Judy Cohen
The women burst out in a cry — in About the author unison. Our prayer was the sound Judy Weissenberg Cohen was born of this incredible cry of hundreds of in Debrecen, Hungary, on September women. It seemed to give us solace. 17, 1928. After the war, she lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons In Debrecen, Hungary, Judy grows camp in Germany. She immigrated up in a warm and lively family, but to Montreal in 1948, where she first when the Nazis invade in 1944, she worked in the garment industry, is crowded into a ghetto with the and then in an office and in public other Jews in the area, her life now relations. She married her hus- shaped by fear and hopelessness. band, Sidney, in 1961 and raised two draft When the cattle cars take Judy and children. Judy is an active speaker her family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Holocaust and human rights she truly leaves her precious child- educator, and in 2001 she founded the hood behind as she scrambles to website “Women and the Holocaust,” survive in the shadow of the gas which collects testimony, literature chambers, one brutal day at a time. and scholarly material exploring Clinging to her sisters, to friends, the unique experiences of women in 6×9 paperback and to fleeting life-affirming mo- the Holocaust. Judy Cohen lives in 232 pages with photos ments, Judy survives the camps and Toronto. isbn 978 1 988065 70 0 a death march on “a never-ending $14.95 road paved with utter, unadulterated June 2020 misery.” Liberated at last, she returns home, only to discover the true magnitude of her loss. Judy then sets out to answer the question of how to find belonging and meaning after so much devastation, creating a new life for herself in Canada and mak- ing it her mission to give a voice to ISBN 9781988065700 women who survived the Holocaust.
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Sustaining Memories: Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors Paula Draper (editor)
As the years go by, when I try to Sustaining Memories gives voice to remember the faces of each member Canadian Jews who suffered through of my family, I see only an outline, ghettos, camps, hiding, fighting a shadow, a blurry image, yet each in the underground, as refugees image is covered with a halo. That is in foreign countries or passing as the memory etched in my mind. They non-Jews in daily fear of betrayal. have never aged, nor have I witnessed Between 1946 and the 1980s, they all their funerals or seen the monuments built new lives in Canada. of their final resting place. Therefore, they will forever remain young, alive About the editor and vibrant in my memory. Dr. Paula Draper is a Holocaust draft (Arnold Friedman) historian and educator. An early advocate of memory history, she The Azrieli Foundation established oversaw the videotaping of inter- the Sustaining Memories Project views with four hundred survivors to help survivors write their sto- in Toronto in 1986 and then became ries. A unique partnership between Lead International Trainer for Steven survivors and volunteer writing Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. She 6×9 paperback partners who were trained to work has taught in the History department 312 pages with photos with Holocaust survivors on record- of the Ontario Institute for Studies in isbn 978 1 988065 57 1 ing and transcribing their stories, Education (OISE), the Jewish Studies $17.95 volunteers spent countless hours on department of York University and January 2020 these testimonies. The strength of the Canadian Studies department the bonds that form when a volun- of University College, University of teer and a survivor create a memoir, Toronto. Dr. Draper has published of the emotional challenges that a widely on the topic of Canada and survivor faces in the telling and the the Holocaust and is now researching understanding, and the insight that the post-war experiences of Canadian the listener experiences were all part Holocaust survivors. of an incredible journey. Excerpts of these co-written memoirs, never ISBN 9781988065571 before published, are produced in this anthology to give readers a wide range of understanding of the varieties of experiences of Holocaust survivors. 7819889 065571 9 anthologies
Confronting Devastation: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary Ferenc Laczó (editor)
I feel someone has to speak for those About the editor who are dead. I think someone needs Ferenc Laczó is assistant professor in to remind those who try to forget. history at Maastricht University. He This is demanded by the cries of the is the author of Hungarian Jews in dead echoing from their graves. the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual (Peter Vas) History, 1929–1948 (2016) and co- editor of Catastrophe and Utopia: draft An anthology of writing from Jewish Intellectuals in Central Hungarian Holocaust survivors that and Eastern Europe in the 1930s examines the experiences and mem- and 1940s (2017). His articles have ory of the Holocaust in Hungary. appeared in Holocaust Studies: A Editor Ferenc Laczó frames excerpts Journal of Culture and History and from some twenty memoirs in their Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, historical and political context, ana- as well as in numerous other publica- 6×9 paperback · 412 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 68 7 · $17.95 lyzing the events that led to the hor- tions. rific “last chapter” of the Holocaust — the genocide of approximately ISBN 9781988065687 550,000 Jews in Hungary in 1944.
Before All Memory Is Lost: 7819889 065687 Women’s Voices from the Holocaust Myrna Goldenberg (editor)
We had a father, a mother, and in the About the editor blink of an eye, we lost them... From Myrna Goldenberg is the co-editor the root, let a branch remain. Let of Different Horrors, Same Hell: their memory live forever… Gender and the Holocaust (2013) (Ifa Demon) and Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the In this first Azrieli Foundation Holocaust (2003), as well as a num- anthology, twenty women reflect on ber of other publications. their experiences of survival – from the heart-stopping fears of hiding 2018 independent to the extreme risks of “passing” as publisher gold medal non-Jews, and from the terrors of winner the Nazi camps to the treacheries of the Soviet Union. This powerful 2017 canadian jewish book 6×9 paperback · 616 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 11 3 · $18.95 collection, woven together by the award and finalist for common thread of resistance, national jewish book features a wide variety of narrative award ISBN 9781988065113 styles, including prose, poetry and diary excerpts.
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Anita Ekstein (centre) with Father Michal (centre, with glasses) and members of the Liczkowce parish. Liczkowce, Poland, 1943–1944. From Always Remember Who You Are. 12 published titles · hiding
Tenuous Threads Judy Abrams
One of the Lucky Ones The Azrieli Series Short Film Eva Felsenburg Marx for Tenuous Threads/One of the Lucky Ones is available. I had always liked to play make- believe, but somehow they made me About the authors understand that this game was real. I Judy Abrams, born in Budapest, never gave away my secret. Hungary on April 28, 1937, immigrated to Montreal in 1949 and later taught Two Jewish girls born six months French at the UN International School apart – Judit Grünfeld in Hun- in New York City. She and her gary and Eva Felsenburg in Czecho- husband live in Montreal. slovakia – are separated from their Eva Marx, born in Brno, Czechoslo- parents and forced to “pass” as vakia on October 21, 1937, also immi- Christian children. Theirs are the grated to Montreal in 1949, and also amazingly parallel but unique stories became a teacher. She and her hus- 6×9 paperback · 224 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 28 2 · $14.95 of two children who were able to band, retired Quebec Superior Court survive when so many others per- Justice Herbert Marx, live in Montreal. ished. ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-28-2
Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum 9 04 0116 CEZpbmVMaW5lHUtSWFdIQlBDRC1UUDBB OTYCOTIDMS41DElTQk4gQmFyY29kZQ0x LTg5NzQ3MC0yOC0yRA== SzZCRlktTFpFUkoyMklXAE6Bn2sFMTEu FnL1 01 02 03 04 781897 470282 Molly Applebaum
When I looked at the world with the of Molly’s fears, despair and secrets eyes of a child it appeared so rose- and, above all, her fervent wish to coloured ... and now? I am happy stay alive. when I survive another day and I await the next in fear. When is it About the author going to end? Are we even going to Molly Applebaum was born in live until the end? Krakow, Poland, in 1930. After the war, she spent three years in displaced Hidden away underground, in a persons camps in Europe before box, twelve-year-old Molly has only immigrating to Canada as a war her older cousin and her diary to orphan. Buried Words is the first keep her company. For two years, English translation of the diary Molly she writes of her confinement “in a wrote in Polish from 1942–1945, ac- grave”: the cold, dark space, the un- companied by the memoir she wrote bearable suffering from insufficient in the 1990s. Molly Applebaum lives 6×9 paperback · 184 pages with photos food, and the complicated reliance in Toronto. isbn 978 1 988065 12 0 · $14.95 on the two farmers who are risking their own lives to save her. Buried ISBN 9781988065120 Words is a stark confession
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The Hidden Package Claire Baum
When I opened the parcel, I was The Azrieli Series Short Film for confronted with the past, memories The Hidden Package is available. long forgotten. The letters and draw- ings described happy as well as sad About the author moments while Ollie and I were in Claire Baum was born on January 25, hiding and separated from Mam and 1936, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Pap. family immigrated to Canada in 1951, where Claire met her husband and Almost forty years after the end of raised three children. Claire Baum the war, Claire Baum opens a pack- lives in Toronto. age from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed 2015 moonbeam children’s memories from her childhood. book award bronze As Claire delves into her past, she medal winner uncovers the personal sacrifice and 6×9 paperback · 132 pages with photos bravery of her parents, the Dutch isbn 978 1 897470 47 3 · $14.95 resistance and the families that ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-47-3 selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie.
Always Remember Who You Are 9 781897 470473 Anita Ekstein
I understood from my year in the — be quiet, stay in the house — and ghetto how dangerous it was to be become a Catholic. outwardly Jewish, and trusted that practicing Catholicism would protect About the author me until the war ended. Anita Helfgott Ekstein was born July 18, 1934, in Lwów, Poland. An As the Nazis invade eastern Poland orphan after the war, she and her in 1941, seven-year-old Anita discov- aunt immigrated to Paris in 1946 and ers that being Jewish is dangerous. to Toronto in 1948. Anita married Her parents no longer have time to Frank Ekstein in 1955, and they raised dote on her — they are occupied three children. A Holocaust educator with trying to save her life. When since 1989, Anita founded a group for the Nazis deport Anita’s mother, child survivors and hidden children her father, devastated, immediately in Toronto, has chaired the March of enlists the help of a Catholic man, the Living three times and has been a 6×9 paperback · 232 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 53 3 · $14.95 Josef Matusiewicz, who courageous- survivor participant eighteen times. ly smuggles Anita out of the Skole Anita lives in Toronto. ghetto and gives her shelter. Anita must do whatever it takes to survive
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A Childhood Adrift René Goldman
Holding me kicking and screaming, mounting anxiety. As René waits for that brute ran toward the awaiting his parents to return, even liberation train, past Mama, whom I saw being day does not feel like freedom. dragged over the floor struggling and crying. The entire station was a scene About the author of bedlam…. René Goldman was born in Luxembourg on March 25, 1934. After René Goldman grows up entranced the war, he lived in children’s homes with the theatre, music, languages in Paris and then pursued his educa- and geography. Surrounded by his tion in Poland. In 1953, René left for parents’ love and protection, he wan- Beijing, where he studied Chinese ders the streets of Luxembourg and language, literature and history. He then Brussels, carefree and prone to graduated from Columbia University mischief. But in 1942, his family flees and then joined the faculty of the to France and eight-year-old René University of British Columbia, where 6×9 paperback ·328 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 17 5 · $14.95 is separated from his parents and he taught courses in Chinese history. shunted between children’s homes René Goldman lives in Summerland,
and convents, where he must hide British Columbia. ISBN 9781988065175 both his Jewish identity and his
Where Courage Lives Muguette Myers 7819889 065175
Everyone in Champlost had a hand The Azrieli Series Short Film for in hiding us. Where Courage Lives is available.
From the bustling city of Paris to About the author the quaint, countryside village of Muguette Szpajzer-Myers was born in Champlost, France, Where Courage 1931 in Paris, France. In 1947, Mu- Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette guette immigrated to Montreal, where Szpajzer and her family as they she worked as a translator. Muguette seek refuge from the war. Written returned to Champlost in 2005 for a in vignettes with child-like charm ceremony to honour four members of and innocence, Muguette’s memoir the community as Righteous Among provides rich insight into rural life the Nations for hiding her and her during wartime upheaval, honour- family during the war. Muguette My- ing both her indomitable mother ers lives in Montreal. and the courage of the people of 6×9 paperback · 168 pages with photos Champlost. isbn 978 1 897470 57 2 · $14.95
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In Hiding Marguerite Élias Quddus
I’m ready, but I’m overcome with The Azrieli Series Short Film for sadness. Mama hugs us and kisses In Hiding is available. us: “Goodbye, children! Go, and don’t look back….” About the author Marguerite Élias Quddus was born in With these last words from their Paris, France. She and her husband, mother, two little girls, Marguerite Abdul Quddus, married in 1965 and and her older sister, Henriette, start moved to Canada, first to Vancouver on a wandering journey that lasts and then to Montreal, where Margue- three years. Taken from farms to rite became very involved in volunteer convents, they learn how to remain teaching. Today, she is extremely silent, to pretend, to lie in order to active in giving talks about her war survive. This story is beautifully il- experience. lustrated by the author. 6×9 paperback · 256 pages with colour illustrations by the author throughout ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-36-7 isbn 978 1 897470 36 7 · $14.95
9 781897 470367 Behind the Red Curtain Maya Rakitova
As I looked at the postcard with a fights to protect her, relying on the view of my native town, I recognized kindness of friends and strangers. the exact place where I had been standing late at night, sixty years About the author earlier, sobbing violently in fear and Maya Rakitova was born in despair because I had nowhere to go. Smolensk, Russia, on June 4, 1931. In 1954, she graduated from the Faculty Maya Rakitova’s family has already of Radio and Television at the Bonch- faced innumerable obstacles and Bruevich Leningrad Electro-Technical hardships together, having lived Institute of Communications. Maya, through the Communist Party her husband and their youngest purges that culminated in the disap- daughter immigrated to Montreal pearance of Maya’s father. But when in 1981. There, Maya worked at the the Nazis occupy their hometown of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941, new and (cbc) for seventeen years. Maya 6×9 paperback · 128 pages with photos terrifying threats surround them. Rakitova lives in Montreal. isbn 978 1 988065 13 7 · $14.95 Nine-year-old Maya quickly learns to hide her Jewish identity as her ISBN 9781988065137 mother, with “uncommon courage,”
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The Violin Rachel Shtibel
A Child’s Testimony The Azrieli Series Short Film for Adam Shtibel The Violin is available.
Two children, Rachel Milbauer and About the authors Adam Shtibel, elude almost certain Rachel Milbauer was born in 1935 death in Nazi-occupied Poland: in Eastern Galicia and Adam Shti- Rachel, a vivacious music lover, lies bel was born in 1928 in Komarow, hidden and silent in an underground Poland. In the mid-1950s, the Shti- bunker for nearly two years. Adam bels moved to Israel, where Rachel quietly “passes” as a non-Jew, forced obtained an MA in microbiology and every day to dodge the people who Adam worked in the aircraft industry. are intent on killing him. Saved by In 1968, the family moved to Toronto, a combination of inner strength, where they still live. luck and the help of courageous friends and strangers, Rachel and 2008 independent 6×9 paperback · 276 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 05 3 · $14.95 Adam meet and fall in love after the publisher gold medal war and begin to build a new life winner ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-05-3 together.
9 781897 470053 Memories from the Abyss William Tannenzapf
But I Had a Happy Childhood About the authors Renate Krakauer William Tannenzapf was born in 1911 and his daughter, Renate, was William Tannenzapf entrusts his born in March 1941, during the Nazi baby daughter to a Polish family to occupation. The family immigrated to save her from the evil gripping his Canada in 1948. William Tannenzapf hometown of Stanisławów. Renate passed away in 2011 at 100. Renate Krakauer was a “miracle baby,” born Krakauer has written and published as the world descended into war. numerous short stories and essays. Later reunited and thrown into refu- She lives in Toronto. gee and immigrant life, Krakauer’s thoughtful observations provide fas- cinating insight into the perceptions and feelings of a child survivor and offer a counterpoint to her father’s 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos adult reflections on the same events. isbn 978 1 897470 06 0 · $14.95
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Betty Rich (left), with her friends Hela (centre) and Feiga (right) in the Soviet labour camp. Arkhangelsk, USSR, 1941. From Little Girl Lost. 18 published titles · escape
Joy Runs Deeper Bronia and Joseph Beker
When Josio came into my room he About the authors was stunned. I will never forget the Bronia and Joseph Beker were both look on his face − he could not believe born in Kozowa, Poland − Bronia that I was alive. I couldn’t understand on December 9, 1920, and Joseph on it myself. I believe it was fate. April 1, 1913. They married in 1945 and came to Canada in 1948, where introduction by jeanne beker they raised their two daughters, Marilyn and Jeanne. Joseph passed Bronia and Josio (Joseph) grow up away in 1988; Bronia passed away in in Kozowa, a shtetl filled with lively 2015. culture, eccentric characters and extended family. When Bronia meets Josio, she is charmed by his confidence and fearlessness. Separated when Josio is drafted into the army, reunited amid 6×9 paperback · 144 pages with photos the chaos of the war, their connection isbn 978 1 897470 45 9 · $14.95 endures as their persecution intensifies. ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-45-9 When everything they hold dear is lost, together they build a new future.
If Home Is Not Here 9 781897 470459 Max Bornstein
I dove into the frigid river, the sudden The Azrieli Series Short Film for If shock leaving me gasping.... Somehow, Home Is Not Here is available. I managed to reach the shore – the unoccupied zone of France and my About the author entry into freedom. Max Bornstein was born on Novem- ber 12, 1921, in Warsaw, Poland. After Not quite two when he immigrates the war, he arrived back on Canadian to Canada, Max Bornstein returns to soil on June 25, 1947. Max and his Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf wife, Min, were married for more Hitler came to power. Barely surviv- than 60 years. Min passed away in ing as a stateless refugee in 1930s 2010; Max Bornstein passed away in Paris, he escapes France when it falls 2015. to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp. 6×9 paperback · 320 pages with photos ISBN-13:isbn 978-1-897470-27-5978 1 897470 27 5 · $14.95
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Getting Out Alive Tommy Dick
He pointed his gun and bayonet at About the author me and ordered me to stop, my jaw Tommy Dick was born in 1925 in was bleeding, hanging down. I could Budapest, Hungary. In 1948, he im- not speak and I was shivering. migrated to Canada and eventually settled in Calgary. At the age of 36, Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick is Tommy enrolled in law school and killed, only to resurface. Born into a practiced law in Calgary for 30 years. Hungarian family who had convert- Tommy Dick passed away in 1999. ed from Judaism, Tommy soon finds out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he’s 2008 independent still a Jew, still a target for murder. publisher gold medal On the run and in disguise, Tommy winner is chased by death as much as he is by luck. 6×9 paperback · 96 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 01 5 · $14.95
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9 781897 470015 Too Many Goodbyes: The Diaries of Zsuzsanna Löffler Susan Garfield
My mother tried to set my mind at feelings down in a new diary, the ease, telling me not to worry, but she only place where she feels she truly failed to reassure me. My fears were belongs. well-founded, as we soon found out. About the author In 1944, as Budapest’s Jews begin Born Zsuzsanna Löffler in Budapest to suffer under German occupa- in 1933, Susan Garfield immigrated tion, eleven-year-old Zsuzsi (Susie) to Canada as a war orphan in 1948 takes to her diary to write about and lived in Vegreville, Alberta, before her friends and family as she copes moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba, with what it means to be persecuted. where she still lives. Her English trans- Precocious and charming, Susie lation of her Hungarian wartime di- records the mundane along with the ary was published in Voices of Win- poignant as she describes her daily nipeg Holocaust Survivors (2010), 6×9 paperback · 156 pages with photos life in Budapest against the backdrop and her story as a new immigrant to isbn 978 1 988065 55 7 · $14.95 of the war. After the war, uncertain Canada was told in Holocaust Survi- whether she made the right deci- vors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, ISBN 9781988065557 sion to emigrate, Susie writes all her Transformation, 1947–1955 (2015).
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The Vale of Tears Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung
My tears, like the words of the prayer, About the author fell like fresh dew: pure, delicate, un- Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung was born adulterated, honest words, and pure, in Dukla, Poland, in 1912. A world-re- delicate, unadulterated, honest tears. nowned Torah and Talmudic scholar, Hirschprung became the chief rabbi An epic journey across borders, of Montreal in 1969 and led its Jewish The Vale of Tears chronicles close community until his death in 1998. to two years in the life of Rabbi Rabbi Hirschprung’s Yiddish-language Pinchas Hirschprung as he seeks an memoir was published in 1944 and escape route from Nazi-occupied translated into Hebrew in 1948; The Europe. In this rare, near day-by- Vale of Tears is its first English trans- day account, Rabbi Hirschprung lation. illuminates what life was like for an Orthodox rabbi fleeing persecu- 2018 independent tion, finding inspiration and hope publisher gold medal 6×9 paperback · 368 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 10 6 · $14.95 in Jewish scripture and psalms as he winner navigates the darkness of wartime to a safe harbour in Kobe, Japan. 2018 j.i. segal translation ISBN 9781988065106 award
A Part of Me Bronia Jablon 7819889 065106
My young daughter and I were now of Me is the harrowing story of how totally alone, relying on my own a mother and daughter make it strength and the caprice of fate. My through the war, one pivotal deci- beloved Lucy depended on me for sol- sion at a time. ace, comfort and protection. I hoped that God would not desert us. About the author Bronia Jablon was born in 1918, in Separated from her family, Bronia Dubno, Poland. After the war, she and her three-year-old daughter, completed her nursing degree in the Lucy, wonder how they will survive Soviet Union and had a successful each day. It is 1942, the height of career. She lived in the Soviet Union, Nazi persecution in Poland, and Poland and Israel before immigrating Bronia’s friends and neighbours are to Canada to be with her daughter either collaborating with the Nazis and grandchildren in 1967. Bronia or too terrified for their own lives to passed away in Toronto in 1994. 6×9 paperback · 166 pages with photos offer assistance. When they finally isbn 978 1 988065 31 1 · $14.95 find help, a cold, dark cellar becomes both their haven and prison. A Part ISBN 9781988065311
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Under the Yellow & Red Stars Alex Levin
I feel my brother’s hand, trembling The Azrieli Series Short Film for but strong, grab onto mine. I hear his Under the Yellow & Red Stars is words, urging me to run, take hold of available. my body and move my legs. We run, his hand holding mine … to me it About the author feels like freedom. Alex Levin was born in 1932 in Rokitno, Poland. After the war, he Alex Levin was only ten when he was sent to the ussr and enrolled ran deep into the forest after the in cadet school, remaining in the Germans invaded his hometown Soviet army until forced out for being of Rokitno, Poland and only twelve Jewish. Alex came to Canada in when he emerged from hiding to 1975 and lived in Toronto, where he find that he had neither parents nor regularly spoke about his experiences a community to return to. in the Holocaust. Alex Levin passed away in 2016. 6×9 paperback · 208 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 07 7 · $14.95 2010 pearson prize teen choice award winner ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-07-7
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In Germany I was “Jewboy”; in Brus- About the author sels I was “boche”; in France I was Fred Mann was born in 1926 in “undesirable”; in Portugal I was a Leipzig, Germany. During his travels “refugee”; and in Jamaica I was sim- after the war, he met and married ply a non-entity…. I was a pariah in his wife in Salzburg, Austria and an exploding world. the family immigrated to Toronto in 1952, where he had a long career as Fred Mann’s incredible story traces an international financier. He passed his family’s long journey of exile away in 2008. from Germany through Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Jamaica and finally to a new home in Canada. A Drastic Turn of Destiny is also a lament for a brave boy who had to grow up far too fast. 6×9 paperback · 304 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 08 4 · $14.95
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Little Girl Lost Betty Rich
The more we felt the Germans’ heavy The Azrieli Series Short Film for boots in our lives, the more I knew Little Girl Lost is available. that I had to leave ... but I was scared. Where was I going to go? What would About the author I live on? Betty Rich was born Basia Kohn in Zduńska Wola, Poland on June 10, Sixteen-year-old Basia Kohn (now 1923, the second youngest in a family Betty Rich) escapes the invasion of of seven children. After the war she her small hometown in Poland in and her new husband fled the Polish 1939 and crosses into Soviet-occu- Communist regime and arrived in pied Poland, beginning a journey Toronto in 1949. Betty Rich passed that takes her thousands of kilo- away in October 2017. metres from a forced labour camp in subarctic Russia to subtropical Soviet Georgia. 6×9 paperback · 256 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 25 1 · $14.95
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News travels fast in the countryside, make a fateful decision to trust the and when I started school many Resistance and escape from Nazi- of the villagers knew that we were occupied Norway to neutral Sweden. Jewish, although they really did not know what that meant. About the author Margrit Rosenberg Stenge was born In the remote village of Rogne, Nor- in Cologne, Germany, on December way, eleven-year-old Margrit and her 27, 1928. Margrit lived in Oslo in 1945, parents have finally found the safety married in 1949 and immigrated to that has eluded them since fleeing Canada, settling in Montreal, in 1951. from Germany. But after war breaks She worked in administration for out in Norway, they must hide in forty years, after which she translated an even more secluded refuge – a ru- six books from Norwegian to English. dimentary cabin in the mountains. Margrit lives in Montreal. The isolation offers relative security 6×9 paperback · 272 pages with photos until the Nazis begin to deport the isbn 978 1 988065 19 9 · $14.95 Jews of Oslo. The Rosenbergs then ISBN 9781988065199
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Survival Kit Zuzana Sermer
For the second time, I found myself The Azrieli Series Short Film for about to be interrogated.... How could Survival Kit is available. I die now, after all we had managed to get through? About the author Zuzana Sermer was born in the Fifteen-year-old Zuzana Sermer small town of Humenné, Slovakia. tries to protect her father and ailing She married Arthur Sermer in 1945 mother when the Nazis set up a fas- and lived in Communist Czechoslo- cist regime in her native Slovakia in vakia for the next 23 years, fleeing to 1939. Four years later, fleeing to the Canada when the Soviets occupied supposed safety of Budapest, Zuzana the country in August 1968. Zuzana and her fiancé must instead navi- Sermer lives in Toronto. gate one treacherous situation after another when Germany occupies Hungary in March 1944. 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 32 9 · $14.95
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Chaos to Canvas 9 781897 470329 Maxwell Smart
The only sounds breaking the grim for Jews, while depending on the silence of the forest were the chirp- few people he can trust. In the bitter ing of birds, the cry of an animal. I journey of Chaos to Canvas, Maxwell became intensely aware of the world transforms from a boy dependent around me… on his family to a teenager fighting to survive and, ultimately, to a man In the town of Buczacz, Poland, who finds himself through art in a nine-year-old Maxwell’s life is life beyond the war. turned upside-down when the Soviets invade in 1939. His family About the author eventually adapts, but nothing can Maxwell Smart was born in Buczacz, prepare them for the Nazi invasion Poland, in 1930. After surviving the two years later. Soon Maxwell is Holocaust on his own, he immigrated alone in the woods, hiding from the to Canada in 1948 through the War roving groups of Nazis and Ukrai- Orphans Project. Maxwell lives in 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos nian collaborators searching Montreal, where he has become a suc- isbn 978 1 988065 30 4 · $14.95 cessful painter, opening his own art gallery in 2006. ISBN 9781988065304
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Album of My Life Ann Szedlecki
I am the daughter of nobody. I have About the author no sisters. I am nobody’s grand- Ann Szedlecki was born Chana daughter or daughter-in-law, aunt Frajlich in Lodz, Poland in 1925. After or cousin. Who am I? My past is all the war, she returned to Lodz to find gone. It disappeared…. that every member of her family had perished. In 1950, she married and Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood- immigrated to Israel and then, in film-loving fourteen-year-old when 1953, to Toronto. Ann Szedlecki passed the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 away in 2005. and she fled to the Soviet Union with her older brother. Her beauti- 2009 moonbeam children’s fully written story is compelling in book award gold medal its candour about her experiences as winner a young woman in the Soviet Union during World War ii. 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 10 7 · $14.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-10-7
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The mountains were almost 3,000 About the author metres high…. We had to climb to the Agnes Tomasov was born in the small peaks, where it was frozen and slip- town of Bardejov, Slovakia on June pery. One single misstep could mean 16, 1930. In 1968, following the Soviet certain death. invasion of Czechoslovakia, she im- migrated to Canada with her hus- Hiding from the Nazis in Slovakia’s band, Joseph, and their two children. Low Tatra Mountains, fourteen- Agnes lives in Toronto. year-old Agnes Grossmann’s family makes the daring decision to escape 2011 independent publisher along treacherous ice-covered silver medal winner mountain peaks to safety. Twenty- four years later, Agnes finds herself on the run from Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime, carrying only 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos what the family can fit in two suit- isbn 978 1 897470 19 0 · $14.95 cases. ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-19-0
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Knocking on Every Door Anka Voticky
There was a feeling of imminent dan- The Azrieli Series Short Film for ger…. we were all subject to the mad Knocking on Every Door is and ever-changing rules of Hitler’s available. Germany. We were desperate to find a safe haven. About the author Anka Voticky was born in the small As Hitler’s army invades Czechoslo- town of Brandýs nad Labem in the vakia in 1940, Anka Voticky and her Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1913 family flee to an unlikely refuge half- and moved to Prague, Czechoslo- way around the world – the Chinese vakia in 1918. In 1948 she and her port of Shanghai. Global in scope, family fled the Communist regime in Anka Voticky’s memoir provides Czechoslovakia and settled in Mon- a rare glimpse of the far-reaching treal. Anka passed away in Montreal impact of World War ii. in 2014, three weeks before her 101st birthday. 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 20 6 · $14.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-20-6
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Passing & Resistance
Michael Kutz (front row, right) with a group of Jewish partisans after the war. Lodz, Poland, circa 1945. From If, By Miracle. 28 published titles · passing & resistance
Unsung Heroes Tibor Benyovits
As the war continued and the Budapest. Inspired by these Unsung restrictions became more severe, Heroes, Tibor joins the resistance ef- we began to prepare for the time fort and bravely acts as a courier for when we would be required to move the group, delivering false identity totally underground and equip documents and protective papers to ourselves with false identity papers, Jews in danger. secure hiding places, alternative supply routes and safe forms of About the author communication. Tibor (Ted) Benyovits was born in Budapest in 1932. He immigrated to In 1944, after German forces invade Israel in 1949, where he met his wife, Hungary, the Zionist youth organi- Miriam; they moved to Canada in zation that twelve-year-old Tibor be- 1962, and Ted established a machine longs to goes underground to avoid shop in Toronto. Ted and Miriam detection. When Tibor is separated have two children and three grand- 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos from his family, he must rely on the children. isbn 978 1 988065 32 8 · $14.95 support of his network, a courageous group under immense pressure to ISBN 9781988065328 save as many Jews as possible in
Fleeing from the Hunter 7819889 065328 Marian Domanski
I asked myself, Am I a criminal About the author doomed for execution? I was deter- Marian (Finkelman) Domanski was mined to run away … that thought born in Otwock, Poland in 1928. He never left my mind. joined the Polish air force after the war and worked as a photographer On the run in Nazi-occupied before moving to Denmark in 1968. Poland, thirteen-year-old orphan He immigrated to Canada two years Marian Finkelman – later Doman- later and was very active in Toronto’s ski – is forced to grow up much too Polish-Jewish community until his early. When he finally escapes the death in 2012. ghetto in his hometown, Marian’s perfect Polish and fair complexion 2011 independent publisher help him narrowly escape death as silver medal winner he travels alone through the Polish countryside. 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 17 6 · $14.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-17-6
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If, By Miracle Michael Kutz
I didn’t see anyone outside the pit, so The Azrieli Series Short Film for I jumped out…. I had the feeling that If, By Miracle is available. my mother was running beside me and calling out to me, “Michael, run About the author faster and don’t look back!” Michael Kutz was born in Nieśwież, Poland (present-day Belarus), in Nearly buried alive, ten-year-old 1930. He arrived in Canada as a war Michael Kutz narrowly escapes the orphan in 1948 and lived in Win- Nazi death squad that has killed nipeg before settling in Montreal, 4,000 Jews, including his own fam- where he joined various charitable ily, in his hometown of Nieśwież. organizations dedicated to helping Guided by his mother’s last words disadvantaged youth, the elderly and and determined to survive, he war veterans. Michael Kutz lives in becomes the youngest member of Montreal. a partisan resistance group in the 6×9 paperback · 184 pages with photos dense Belorussian forest, taking part 2015 living now silver medal ISBN-13:isbn 978-1-897470-35-0978 1 897470 35 0 · $14.95 in daring operations against the winner Nazis and their collaborators.
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A Tapestry of Survival Leslie Mezei with Magda Mezei Schwarz, Klara Mezei Noy and Annie Wasserman Mezei
There were many close calls, and own. In A Tapestry of Survival the I think it took quick thinking and voices of Leslie, Magda, Klari and miraculous escapes to survive those Annie are woven together to reveal a times, as well as a strong will to live. larger tale of courage, resilience and the search for healing. Twelve-year-old Leslie Mezei, a lively, curious boy, doesn’t realize About the author how precarious his life is as a Jew Leslie Mezei was born in 1931, in in German-occupied Hungary in Gödöllő, Hungary. In 1948 Leslie ar- 1944. His older sister Magda, aware rived in Canada, where he furthered of the growing danger from Nazis his education and became a professor and Hungarian fascists, takes charge of computer science at the University and bravely tries to direct the fam- of Toronto. An early pioneer in the ily’s survival, while his sister Klari, field of computer art, Leslie also devel- 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 52 6 · $14.95 tough and determined, faces a brutal oped two new graphic programming ordeal of her own. After the war, in languages. Leslie lives in Toronto, Montreal, Leslie meets his wife, An- where he is very involved in an inter- nie, who has a survival story of her faith and interspiritual movement.
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W Hour Arthur Ney
Two close calls in one day were The Azrieli Series Short Film for enough for me. I realized that the up- W Hour is available. rising was not like the games I played with Józek before the war. This was a About the author very real battle, in which people were Arthur Ney was born in Warsaw on being killed and wounded. June 25, 1930. He came to Canada in 1948 and settled in Montreal, As the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where he raised a family. Arthur Ney begins in spring 1943, twelve-year- passed away in September 2016. old Arthur Ney is hiding outside the walls. Realizing that his family is gone, he finds refuge in a Catholic orphanage, struggling with loneli- ness, guilt and fear while living under a false identity. When the 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos Warsaw Uprising – codenamed W - :isbn - - - - 978 1 897470 41 1 · $14.95 Hour – begins in 1944, Arthur Ney joins the barricades and fights for liberation.
Dangerous Measures Joseph Schwarzberg
The officer inspecting my papers Germans and sabotaging their war addressed me in German and in effort. Narrowly avoiding roundups response I convincingly faked my lack of Jews and escaping from arrests of understanding. I was relieved that I and interrogations, Joseph lives with was able to calmly withstand my first the daily dread of being discovered. test in the art of deception, as many more tests of my nerves were yet to About the author follow. Joseph Schwarzberg was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1926. In 1945, Under threat since fleeing from Ger- Joseph and his family were part of the many after the violent attacks during earliest legal Jewish immigrants to Kristallnacht in 1938, Joseph and pre-state Israel. Joseph immigrated to his family resolve to get as far from Toronto in 1968, where he established the Nazis as possible. After years his own business, Adina J. Fashions, in hiding and on the run, Joseph in the garment industry. Joseph 6×9 paperback · 248 pages with photos assumes the non-Jewish identity of Schwarzberg lives in Toronto. isbn 978 1 988065 45 8 · $14.95 nineteen-year-old Joseph-Jean Sarlat ISBN 9781988065458 and bravely joins the underground resistance in France, fighting the
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Vanished Boyhood George Stern
As soon as I heard the airplane The Azrieli Series Short Film for engines I ran upstairs to watch the Vanished Boyhood is available. bombers approaching. It was dan- gerous, but I wasn’t scared. I prayed About the author to God that those American planes George Stern was born on April 21, would destroy the Nazis and the fac- 1931, in the Budapest suburb of Újpest. tories so we all could be free again. After the war, he immigrated to Israel and fought in the War of Indepen- A month before George Stern’s thir- dence. In 1960, George and his wife, teenth birthday, Germany invades Judit, left Israel for São Paulo, Brazil, his native Hungary, anti-Jewish and in 1969 immigrated from there to edicts are passed and a ghetto is es- Canada. George Stern passed away in tablished. A rebel even then, George November 2017. refuses to wear the Jewish star. “Pass- ing” as a Christian boy, he survives 6×9 paperback · 184 pages with photos the siege of Budapest as the Soviet ISBN-13:isbn 978-1-897470-34-3 978 1 897470 34 3 · $14.95 Red Army presses closer, strafing the city while the fascist Arrow Cross continues to hunt for Jews.
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Only a miracle could save me now. The Azrieli Series Short Film for If What God would accept my prayers? Only It Were Fiction is available. I was a fraud. I carried forged docu- ments. I lied all the time. I wasn’t who About the author I said I was. But I wanted to live. Elsa Thon was born on January 10, 1923, in Pruszków, Poland. After Elsa Thon was a 16-year-old photog- liberation, she married Mayer Thon, rapher’s apprentice when the Nazis a Soviet tank commander, and moved occupied her town of Pruszków, to Israel in 1948. As war survivors, Poland. When her family is sent to they were given special permission to the Warsaw ghetto, Elsa joins a com- immigrate to Argentina in 1955, where munity farm and is recruited by the they lived until moving to Canada in Underground. Despite her deep be- 1980. Elsa Thon lives in Toronto. lief in destiny, Elsa refuses to bow to her fate as a Jew in war-torn Poland. 6×9 paperback · 304 pages with photos ISBN-13:isbn 978978-1-897470-33-6 1 897470 33 6 · $14.95
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From Loss to Liberation Joseph Tomasov
At first we weren’t sure what was year-sentence. Joseph’s journey From happening, but by looking through a Loss to Liberation is the story of a small ventilation pipe we soon found young man who never gives up and out. We saw the Germans, who had who, ultimately, fulfills his hopes and followed our footsteps in the snow. dreams in Canada. There was no way out. About the author In the fall of 1944, the Slovak Joseph Tomasov was born on May National Uprising both endangers 25, 1920, in Trstěná, Slovakia. After and saves Joseph Tomasov’s life. At the war, he graduated from Prague’s twenty-two years old and Jewish, Charles University with a degree in Joseph has been a constant target engineering. In November 1968, after of the Nazis and their Slovak allies. the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Joining the resistance movement is Joseph immigrated to Canada with his only way out, even though life his wife, Agnes, and their two chil- 6×9 paperback · 216 pages with photos on the run is steeped in peril. After dren. Joseph passed away in January isbn 978 1 988065 26 7 · $14.95 the war, Joseph’s liberation is short- 2019. lived – imprisoned by the commu- ISBN 9781988065267 nist regime, he faces a twenty-five
Alone in the Storm Leslie Vertes 7819889 065267
Writing opened the lid of my box The Azrieli Series Short Film for of buried memories. Looking back Alone in the Storm is available. at my long life’s journey, I am dizzy contemplating the rough road and the About the author distance I have travelled. Leslie Vertes was born in Ajak, Hungary, in 1924; he immigrated to In 1944, twenty-year-old Leslie Canada with his family in 1957. Leslie Vertes escapes from a forced labour has been actively involved in Holo- detail in Budapest and miraculously caust education and has volunteered survives by assuming a false identity. for various organizations. In 2015, he About to taste freedom as the end of received Quebec’s ymca Peace Medal the war nears, his liberation is short- and the Governor General’s Caring lived when he is caught by the new Canadian Award in recognition of his Soviet regime and sent for two years volunteerism and contributions to the of back-breaking labour and captiv- community. Leslie lives in Montreal. 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos ity. Years later, when he and his fam- isbn 978 1 897470 88 6 · $14.95 ISBN 9781897470886 ily flee to Canada, Leslie finally finds true freedom.
7818979 470886 Ghettos & Camps
A remnant of Felix Opatowski’s prison uniform from Auschwitz-Birkenau, showing his prisoner number. From Gatehouse to Hell. 34 published titles · ghettos & camps
Six Lost Years Amek Adler
I had watched my family being torn parents and three brothers, and he apart and degraded, and I had feared dreams of the future. for my life. I was heartbroken, but I had been hardened, and I had About the author learned not to cry. Abram (Amek) Adler was born in Lublin, Poland, on April 20, 1928. “How much longer could we last?” Amek lived in Italy (1945–1947), im- sixteen-year-old Amek Adler la- migrated to Sweden in 1948 and then ments, after arriving at another to Canada in 1954 with his wife, Ruth. concentration camp in the spring In Toronto, Amek succeeded in both of 1945. From the Lodz and War- the fur industry and the jewellery saw ghettos to the Radom forced business. He spoke to numerous audi- labour camp, and from Natzweiler ences about his experiences during the to Dachau, Amek has witnessed Holocaust and was actively involved too much destruction and trag- with the Jewish War Veterans of 6×9 paperback · 144 pages with photos edy to bear any more suffering. To Canada. Amek passed away in 2017. isbn 978 1 988065 18 2 · $14.95 hold onto hope for his survival, he dreams of the life he had with his ISBN 9781988065182 90000 >
In the Hour of Fate and Danger Ferenc Andai 7819889 065182
Portents of death are trembling in the About the author air. Ferenc Andai (1925–2013) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He arrived in Ferenc Andai is one of approximate- Canada in 1957, where he obtained ly 6,000 Jewish Hungarian men con- an MA in Slavic Studies from the scripted to work as forced labourers Université de Montréal and a teaching in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia, diploma from McGill University. He between 1943 and 1944. Subject also earned his PhD in history (sum- to the whims of cruel Hungarian ma cum laude) from Eötvös Loránd commanders and German over- University in Budapest. Ferenc was seers, the men are forced to work to a history teacher and then head of exhaustion while they subsist on a a high school social science depart- starvation diet. For nineteen-year- ment. His book Mint tanu szólni: bori old Ferenc, the only relief from his történet (To Bear Witness: A Story harsh reality is his company — an of Bor) was published by Ab Ovo in 6×9 paperback · 298 pages with photos artistic and literary circle of men isbn 978 1 988065 56 4 · $14.95 2003 and awarded the Radnóti Miklós January 2020 that includes the inspirational poet National Prize in 2004. Miklós Radnóti. ISBN 9781988065564
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Across the Rivers of Memory Felicia Carmelly
Everybody I knew seemed to be whis- The Azrieli Series Short Film for pering all of the time. I was scared, Across the Rivers of Memory but no one would talk to me about is available. anything. About the author Ten-year-old Felicia Steigman is Felicia Carmelly was born in Vatra confused by the sudden disruption Dornei, Romania, in 1931. In 1959, to her life when she is expelled from Felicia and her family emigrated from school and forced to wear a yellow communist Romania to Israel, im- star. But she is completely unpre- migrating to Canada three years later. pared for what happens next – the Felicia founded Toronto’s Transnistria forced abandonment of her home Survivors’ Association in 1994 and and a gruelling journey, overseen by published the anthology Shattered! cruel Romanian Nazi collaborators, 50 Years of Silence: History and to Transnistria, a squalid place that Voices of the Tragedy in Romania 6×9 paperback · 200 pages with photos ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-54-1 doesn’t even exist on a map. and Transnistria in 1997. Felicia isbn 978 1 897470 54 1 · $14.95 Carmelly passed away in October 2018.
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Spring’s End John Freund
Into a new world I was brought by a The Azrieli Series Short Film for dream Spring’s End is available. Never to see blood spilled again But can I really throw away About the author The dreams that soiled my youth? John Freund was born in 1930 in České Budějovice, a town located A young boy who loved soccer as south of Prague, in Czechoslovakia. much as he loved to write, John He was liberated by American troops Freund’s joyful childhood is shat- in 1945 and in March 1948, John im- tered by the German invasion of migrated to Canada. He and his wife Czechoslovakia. John’s family suffers live in Toronto. through the systematic erosion of their rights only to be deported to 2008 independent Theresienstadt – en route to the publisher gold medal Auschwitz death camp. winner 6×9 paperback · 136 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 03 9 · $14.95
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Flights of Spirit Elly Gotz
I had a lot of time to think and I had give him the determination to suc- many questions: How does it feel to ceed and to, ultimately, find strength die? My mother was a strong woman in flight. and I trusted her, but would she have the strength to give me, her only child, About the author the first injection? Elly Gotz was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1928. In 1947, Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides Elly and his parents immigrated to with his family in an underground Norway and then to Zimbabwe. Elly bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lith- immigrated to Toronto in 1964, where uania, prepared to die rather than be he established various businesses and found by the Nazis. But there is no achieved his lifelong dream of becom- escape from the ghetto’s liquidation, ing a pilot. At age eighty-nine, he ful- and Elly and his father are taken to filled another aeronautical dream by the Kaufering concentration camp. going skydiving. Elly lives in Toronto. 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos After the war, Elly fights to regain isbn 978 1 897470 44 1 · $14.95
his lost youth and education. His ISBN 9781988065441 motivation and enterprising spirit
Stronger Together 7819889 065441 Ibolya Grossman and Andy Réti
“Don’t cry darling. We need this baby. About the authors You will see.” Ibolya Grossman was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1916; she passed away in With these words from her husband, Toronto in 2005. Andy Réti was born Zoltán, Ibolya Rechnitzer’s fear of in Budapest in 1942. Andy has been being pregnant during the uncer- a volunteer at Toronto’s Holocaust tainty of wartime is somewhat eased. Education Centre since 1998 and When Andy is born, Ibi realizes her joined his mother on many of her husband was right – Andy gives her events as a survivor speaker. Andy a reason to go on during the worst continues to tell their stories to nu- of times in the Budapest ghetto, and merous audiences. to persevere in their escape from Hungary after the war. Ibi’s story is a tribute to her son, and Andy’s mem- oir is a tribute to her legacy. 6×9 paperback · 288 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 02 1 · $14.95
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Memories in Focus Pinchas Gutter
I think my mind just went blank. I tional scars. A poignant reflection had disengaged myself from what was on suffering, injustice and trauma, happening around me. It was as if my Memories in Focus also offers hope eyes were cameras and my brain was and faith in the future. the screen. I just recorded everything, without emotion or participation. About the author Born in Lodz, Poland, on July 21, 1932, As ten-year-old Pinchas is deported Pinchas Gutter was the only member from the Warsaw ghetto to the of his immediate family to survive the killing site of Majdanek and then Holocaust. Pinchas lived in France, to a series of concentration camps, Israel, Brazil and South Africa before he shuts himself off to the terrors immigrating to Canada in 1985. He surrounding him and tries his best is the first Holocaust survivor to have to become almost invisible. But his storytelling and his likeness im- after liberation, his photographic mortalized in an interactive three- 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos memory won’t let his past fade away, dimensional projection in the USC isbn 978 1 988065 24 3 · $14.95 and Pinchas struggles to deal with Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions nightmares and flashbacks while in Testimony. Pinchas Gutter lives in ISBN 9781988065243 raising a family and healing his emo- Toronto.
As the Lilacs Bloomed Anna Molnár Hegedűs 7819889 065243
Six months have passed since I About the author arrived home. Six months full of Anna Molnár Hegedűs was born in hope, waiting, heart-gripping anxiety the Austro-Hungarian Empire on and dark despair. August 2, 1897. She married Zoltan Hegedűs in Szatmár (Satu-Mare), In the spring of 1944, as Germany then in Romania, on June 14, 1921, occupies her native Hungary, Anna and had two children, John and Hegedűs barely has time to notice Agnes. Anna Hegedűs immigrated to the flowers blooming around her. Israel from Romania in 1949 and to One year later, as the lilacs blossom Canada in 1952. She passed away in once again, she returns to her home- Montreal in 1979. town and sets her memories, raw and vivid, to paper. Her unflinching 2015 independent publisher words convey the bitter details of gold medal winner the Szatmár ghetto, Auschwitz and 6×9 paperback · 256 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 48 0 · $14.95 a perilous death march. Anna has 2015 literary translators’ survived a lifetime of trauma, and association of canada john ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-48-0 as she writes, she waits, desperately glassco prize hoping her family will return.
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We Sang in Hushed Voices Helena Jockel
In Auschwitz I was told that in two The Azrieli Series Short Film for hours they could kill two thousand We Sang in Hushed Voices is people…. available.
When the Nazis invade Hungary on About the author March 19, 1944, elementary school Helena Jockel (née Kahan) was born teacher Helena Jockel can only think in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia on about how to save “her” children October 23, 1919. After the war, she as she accompanies them all the returned to Czechoslovakia and in way to Auschwitz. Her account of 1948 married her widowed brother- living and surviving in the camp is in-law, Emil Jockel. They remained in clear-eyed and poignant, sometimes Czechoslovakia until Helena retired recording the too-brief moments of and then moved to Canada in 1988 beauty and kindness that accompany to join their daughter, Jana. Helena the unremitting cruelty. Jockel passed away in November 2016. 6×9 paperback · 128 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 43 5 · $14.95
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Inside the Walls Eddie Klein
Rumkowski remains shrouded in About the author mystery, and though my own view Eddie (Icchok) Klein was born in Si- may be biased, I am convinced that eradz, Poland, in 1927. He immigrated he cared deeply about the Jews in the to British Mandate Palestine in 1945, ghetto. where he worked for the Palmach and later the Air Force. Eddie married An idealist and a dreamer, orphaned his wife, Miriam, in Tel Aviv in 1955; Icchok Klein comes under the they immigrated to Montreal in 1956, protective wing of those in charge where Eddie still lives. of the Lodz ghetto, including the powerful Mordechai Rumkowski. In a flash, Icchok’s life takes a decidedly different path, giving him a bird’s- eye view of a house of privilege and a polarizing, controversial figure. 6×9 paperback · 120 pages with photos But in August 1944, Icchok’s fate isbn 978 1 988065 01 4 · $14.95 spirals when he is transported from ISBN 9781988065014 the ghetto and forced to face, alone, each precarious moment.
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The Weight of Freedom Nate Leipciger
To avoid thinking I repeated the The Azrieli Series Short Film for words “after the war.” The words stuck The Weight of Freedom in my mind like a mantra. After the is available. war. The words blended into the clang of the wheels. Would there ever be an About the author end to the war? Nate Leipciger was born in Chorzów, Poland, in 1928. He immigrated to Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy Toronto in 1948, where he eventu- eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into ally obtained a university degree in an incomprehensible web of ghet- engineering. Nate was a member tos, concentration and death camps of the International Council of the during the German occupation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum for Poland. As he struggles to survive, fifteen years and has been an educa- he forges a new, unbreakable bond tor on March of the Living for twenty with his father and yearns for a free years. Nate Leipciger lives in Toronto. 6×9 paperback · 360 pages with photos future. Introspective and raw, yet isbn 978 1 897470 55 8 · $14.95 ever hopeful, The Weight of Freedom ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-55-8 is Nate’s vivid journey through a past that can never be left behind.
A Name Unbroken 9 781897 470558 Michael Mason
I was skin and bones. The person who The Azrieli Series Short Film for looked back at me in the mirror was A Name Unbroken is available. a scared-looking skinny little boy, not the person I thought I was. About the author Michael Mason was born as Miklos When Germany occupies Hungary Friedman in Beregszász, Czechoslo- in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos vakia, in 1928. In 1949, he immigrated Friedman must draw on his wits to to Canada, working in a wide variety survive. Recruited into forced la- of business ventures in Hamilton bour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimate- before moving to Toronto, where he ly, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz opened his own dental laboratory and and Mühldorf, Miklos never stops became a denturist. Michael Mason fighting to change his fate. After the lives in Toronto. war, he risks everything in order to leave his past behind. Decades later, 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 56 5 · $14.95 a chance meeting in Toronto leads Miklos, now Michael Mason, to dis- ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-56-5 cover the power of his new name.
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Suddenly the Shadow Fell Leslie Meisels with Eva Meisels
That night, a fierce air battle The Azrieli Series Short Film for developed around and above our Suddenly the Shadow Fell is train. In the morning, instead of the available. enemy, US soldiers found us and heard our cries: “Oh God, we are About the author free!” Leslie Meisels was born on February 20, 1927, in Nádudvar, Hungary. His introduction by anna porter whole immediate family survived the Holocaust. He immigrated to the All 17-year-old Leslie Meisels knows US in 1958, following the Hungarian in June 1944 is that he must get his Revolution, and to Canada in 1967. family out of the terrible conditions He married Eva in 1961 and they have in the ghetto in Debrecen, Hungary. two children and four grandchildren. His decision to push their way on to Leslie Meisels, a dedicated Holocaust a transport could have sent them all educator, passed away in June 2018. 6×9 paperback · 168 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 42 8 · $14.95 to a death camp. Instead they join the roughly 20,000 “Jews on ice” - : - - -- whose lives are saved — temporarily — in Austria.
Hope’s Reprise 470428 David Newman
The more we endured, the stronger About the author our will to live became. This was our David Newman was born in Chmiel- resistance against the degradation. nik, Poland, in 1919. He immigrated to Paris with his wife, Anna, and son, Torn from his family in Poland Jack, in 1946. In 1951, the Newman and deported for forced labour at family immigrated to Canada. David Skarżysko-Kamienna, David battles was a performer in Yiddish theatre desperation and the mounting productions, taught Yiddish to count- death toll by writing songs, poems less students and co-founded the Kol and satires about life in the camp. Yisroel congregation at the Borochov Later, in the infamous Buchenwald Centre. David Newman passed away camp, the resistance recruits him in 2002. for a clandestine initiative to protect the Jewish children there. With his soulful songs and his lessons for the 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos children, David is able to rouse a isbn 978 1 897470 89 3 · $14.95 chorus of hope, both in himself and ISBN 9781897470893 those around him.
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Gatehouse to Hell Felix Opatowski
I was stubborn. I didn’t want to stay The Azrieli Series Short Film for in Auschwitz. I didn’t want to go to Gatehouse to Hell is available. the gas chambers…. I didn’t want to die there, and I kept pushing back. About the author Felix Opatowski was born in Lodz, At 15, Felix Opatowski begins smug- Poland on June 15, 1924. He was gling goods out of the Lodz ghetto liberated in Austria by the US army in exchange for food. In 1943 he is on May 9, 1945 and worked at a US deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, army base where he married his wife, where he is recruited as a runner Regina, in 1947. Felix and Regina for the Polish Underground and arrived in Toronto in 1949; they were implicated in the plot to blow up the married for 69 years. Regina passed crematoria. away in 2016; Felix Opatowski passed away in January 2017. 6×9 paperback · 216 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 26 8 · $14.95 2012 independent publisher ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-26-8 silver medal winner
9 781897 470268 Bits and Pieces Henia Reinhartz
My family and I were in hiding. Sud- About the author denly I heard someone panting on the Born in Lodz, Poland in 1926, Henia stairs … we didn’t breathe. Who was Reinhartz endured the Lodz ghetto coming now? and survived Auschwitz and Bergen- Belsen. After the war, she moved Lodz, Poland, 1944. Teenaged Henia to Paris where she graduated as a Rosenfarb sits with her family in a Yiddish and Hebrew teacher and met small, secret room, hiding from the her husband. Henia immigrated to Nazi soldiers who are looking for Canada in 1951 and moved to Toronto them. Little can the fiery redhead in 1952. imagine the path her life would take, from wartime Poland to Canada. 2008 independent publisher gold medal winner 6×9 paperback · 112 pages with photos 2008 canadian jewish book isbn 978 1 897470 00 8 · $14.95 award winner ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-00-8
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E/ 96: Fate Undecided Paul-Henri Rips
“Don’t move. Don’t open the door.” The Azrieli Series Short Film for My knees had turned to jelly and I E/96: Fate Undecided is available. was trembling uncontrollably…. Sina grabbed her raincoat and declared, About the author “I’m leaving. They’ll be back and I Paul-Henri Rips was born in 1929 don’t want to end up in a camp.” in Antwerp. He left Antwerp in 1950 and moved to the Belgian Congo and The son of an Antwerp diamond then to South Africa, where he mar- merchant, Paul-Henri Rips was ten ried his wife, Lily. In 1997, the couple when the Nazis invaded Belgium immigrated to Toronto to join their and ended his “golden childhood” children and grandchildren, where forever. Guided by his father’s admo- they still live. nition to “Sei a mensch” (Be a decent person), Rips manages to hold onto 2009 moonbeam children’s his humanity in the face of unfath- book award gold medal 6×9 paperback · 160 pages with photos omable inhumanity. winner isbn 978 1 897470 09 1 · $14.95
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Traces of What Was 9 0116 04 CEZpbmVMaW5lHUtSWFdIQlBDRC1UUDBB LTg5NzQ3MC0wOS02RA== SzZCRlktTFpFUkoyMklXAEnLspkFMTEu FnL1 01 02 0304 OTYCOTIDMS41DElTQk4gQmFyY29kZQ0x 781897 470091 Steve Rotschild
It was at the end of March 1944, on a About the author cool, bright and sunny day, the begin- Steve Rotschild was born in Vilna, ning of spring, the time of renewal Lithuania in 1933. He immigrated of life, that the SS came to take the to Israel with his mother and new children. stepfather in 1949, and from there to Canada. He married Lillian Blu- Ten-year-old Steve Rotschild learns menfeld in Montreal in 1956 and to hide, to be silent, to be still – and they raised two daughters who have to wait. He knows the sound of the between them five children. Steve Nazis’ boots and knows to hold his Rotschild now lives in Toronto. breath until their footsteps recede. Rotschild eloquently juxtaposes his past, furtive walks outside the Vilna ghetto with his long, liberating walks through Toronto after the war. This 6×9 paperback · 144 pages with photos captivating story of survival and a isbn 978 1 897470 44 2 · $14.95 mother’s tenacious love leaves the ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-44-2 reader indelibly marked by Traces of What Was.
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Dignity Endures Judith Rubinstein
What they told us was a lie. After sev- Hungary to the Nazi labour and con- eral days of travelling under the most centration camps. Judith endures the degrading conditions, broken in spirit, destruction of her family, yet rebuilds hungry and dying of thirst, stripped of her life and dignity. our human dignity, we finally arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place we About the author had never heard of before. Judith Rubinstein was born in Mezőcsát, Hungary, in 1920. After The train from Hungary to Auschwitz surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau and brings Judith face-to-face with Dr. being liberated by the Americans Mengele, the Angel of Death, who in May 1945 from a labour camp decides her fate. Her mother’s quick in Germany, Judith immigrated to actions are all that stand between her Canada in 1948 with her husband, and certain death. At twenty-four Bela Rubinstein. She had a son and years old, she struggles to stay alive a daughter and numerous grandchil- 6×9 paperback · 192 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 25 0 · $14.95 after being separated from her fam- dren and great-grandchildren. Judith ily as they pass from the ghettos of passed away in 2013. ISBN 9781988065250
In Search of Light Martha Salcudean 7819889 065250
I understood that we were different, Romania, but when the communist that we were considered as aliens — dictatorship takes hold, Martha more correctly, enemy aliens — and again finds herself living in fear, and that there was a different set of rules she is determined to escape with her for us. new family to freedom.
Martha Salcudean grows up in About the author Romania before the area she lives in Dr. Martha Salcudean was born in abruptly becomes ruled by Hungary 1934 in Cluj, Romania, and immi- and then, in 1944, by Germany. As grated to Canada in 1976. She was a Martha is forced into ghettos, she professor at the University of Ottawa experiences such cruelty and hatred and head of mechanical engineering that at ten years old, she no longer at the University of British Columbia. feels like a child. But Martha’s fate She has received three honorary doc- changes in an instant when she torates and a number of prestigious 6×9 paperback · 236 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 54 0 · $14.95 becomes one of those destined to awards and honours. Martha Salcu- be saved by Rudolf Kasztner, who is dean passed away in July 2019. riskily negotiating with the Nazis. After the war, Martha returns to
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Never Far Apart Kitty Salsberg and Ellen Foster
After all those terrible years when I so About the authors fiercely protected her and she clung to Kitty Salsberg and Ellen Foster were me for love and security, those “wise” born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1932 social workers separated us, leaving and 1935, respectively. They immi- us each to manage on our own in a grated to Canada in 1948, where Kitty strange environment. enjoyed a long and fulfilling career as a teacher. Ellen moved to Los Angeles Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, in 1952, where she worked and raised arrive in Canada as orphans, with a family. Ellen still lives in LA; Kitty painful memories from the Holo- lives in Toronto. caust. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toron- to are far from what they expected, 6×9 paperback · 208 pages with photos and full of broken promises. isbn 978 1 897470 87 9 · $14.95 ISBN 9781897470879
My Heart Is At Ease 7818979 470879 Gerta Solan
We played a game of nostalgia, recall- About the author ing memories of the past to forget, Gerta Solan was born in Prague in for a while, the terrible present…. 1929. After liberation, she returned to The siren at 5:00 a.m. woke us to the Prague and in 1949 she married Paul morning reality of roll call. We each Seidner (Solan). They lived in Prague wondered if we were going to be given until the Soviet invasion in 1968. In another day of life. Toronto, Gerta worked for the Red Cross, tracing and reuniting families In June 1942, when twelve-year-old after disasters, until her retirement in Gerta is deported with her parents to 1995. Gerta immigrated to Israel the Theresienstadt ghetto – the Nazis’ in 2014. deceptive “model Jewish settlement” – her family helps her cope with the surrounding devastation. Later, alone in Auschwitz, Gerta is determined to 6×9 paperback · 208 pages with photos survive the unbearable. Her intrepid isbn 978 1 897470 46 6 · $14.95 spirit and keen observation guides ISBN-13: 978-1-897470-46-6 her anew through post-war commu- nism to freedom in Canada.
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In Fragile Moments Zsuzsanna Fischer Spiro
The Last Time About the authors Eva Shainblum Zsuzsanna Fischer was born in Tornyospálca, Hungary, in 1925. After I am no longer who I used to be…. All I the war, she lived in Budapest until have left is hope. the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, immi- grating with her family to Canada in Born two hundred kilometres away 1957. Zsuzsanna Spiro passed away in from each other and two years apart, August 2016. the lives of both Zsuzsanna Fischer and Eva Steinberger are thrown into chaos Eva Steinberger was born in Na- when Germany occupies Hungary and gyvárad, Hungary, in 1927. She im- destroys their peaceful childhoods. In migrated to Canada in 1948, settling the spring of 1944, sent into ghettos in Montreal, where she still lives. and then to Auschwitz, they each take refuge in the one constant in their lives 6×9 paperback · 176 pages with photos isbn 978 1 988065 03 8 · $14.95 – their older sisters. A glimpse into the fierceness of a sister’s love, these two stories mirror the remarkable differ- ISBN 9781988065038 ences in similar paths of survival.
The Shadows Behind Me 7819889 065038 Willie Sterner
I was surprised that Oskar Schindler, About the author a German industrialist, would talk to Willie Sterner was born in Wolbrom, me not as a Jew but as a normal per- Poland on September 15, 1919. The el- son.... I thought that I must be having dest of seven children, he was the only a nice dream. one to survive the Holocaust. After the war, he lived in Displaced Persons For six desperate years, Willie Stern- camps in Austria, where he became er’s skill as a painter saves him from chief of the Jewish police. He and his death at the hands of the Nazis. In a wife, Eva, immigrated to Canada in rare piece of luck, Sterner finds him- 1948 and settled in Montreal. Willie self transferred to Oskar Schindler’s Sterner passed away in 2011. Emalia factory, where he becomes the famed German businessman’s personal art restorer. 6×9 paperback · 240 pages with photos isbn 978 1 897470 18 3 · $14.95
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Carry the Torch Sam Weisberg different yet parallel stories of two men who must find their own way A Lasting Legacy after the war and decide whether to Johnny Jablon keep their histories in the past.
Commandant Göth singled out a About the authors man from the line and shot him for Sam Weisberg was born in Chorzów, no apparent reason at all. Göth then Poland, in 1927. After liberation, Sam turned to the next person and asked, lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced “Why are you staring at me so stu- persons (DP) camp, where he met pidly?” And he shot him as well. his wife, Rosa. They immigrated to Canton, Ohio, in 1948 and to Toronto In the Plaszow forced labour camp, in 1959. Sam Weisberg passed away in both Johnny and Sam quickly learn January 2019. of the brutality of the new comman- dant, Amon Göth. At sixteen years Johnny (Ephroim) Jablon was born old, both feel like they are walking in Krakow, Poland, in 1927. After the 6×9 paperback · 256 pages with photos a tightrope, where one wrong move war, Johnny lived in the Bindermichl isbn 978 1 988065 46 5 · $14.95 can make them the target of Göth’s DP camp in Austria. In 1948, as a ISBN 9781988065465 unpredictable volatility. Carry the war orphan, he immigrated to Mon- Torch and A Lasting Legacy are the treal, where he still lives.
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