Holocaust Survivors in Canada

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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887554946
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Holocaust Survivors in Canada by : Adara Goldberg

Download or read book Holocaust Survivors in Canada written by Adara Goldberg and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the established Jewish community and resettlement agents alike. Adara Goldberg’s Holocaust Survivors in Canada highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them. The book explores the relationships between the survivors, Jewish social service organizations, and local Jewish communities; it considers how those relationships—strained by disparities in experience, language, culture, and worldview—both facilitated and impeded the ability of survivors to adapt to a new country. Researched in basement archives and as well as at Holocaust survivors’ kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide—not through the lens of lawmakers, but from the perspective of “new Canadians” themselves.

By Chance Alone

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488059748
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis By Chance Alone by : Max Eisen

Download or read book By Chance Alone written by Max Eisen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen’s journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.

Missing Pieces

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Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552382206
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Book Synopsis Missing Pieces by : Olga Verrall

Download or read book Missing Pieces written by Olga Verrall and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until age seven, Olga Barsony Verrall lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. After the Nazi invasion in 1944, Olga found herself, along with most of her family, interned in the Auspitz labour camp. Eventually reunited after the war. A long journey of physical and mental healing, along with the support of her family, helped Olga piece her life back together. For Olga, writing her memoir was a catharsis. For her readers, it will be an inspiration.

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey

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Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773632191
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Book Synopsis Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey by : Suzanne Berliner Weiss

Download or read book Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey written by Suzanne Berliner Weiss and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in progressive-run orphanages, where she gained a belief in peace and brotherhood. Adoption by a New York family led to a tumultuous youth haunted by domestic conflict, fear of nuclear war and anti-communist repression, consignment to a detention home and magical steps toward relinking with her origins in Europe. At age seventeen, Suzanne became a lifelong social activist, engaged in student radicalization, the Cuban Revolution, and movements for Black Power, women’s liberation, peace in Vietnam and freedom for Palestine. Now nearing eighty, Suzanne tells how the ties of friendship, solidarity and resistance that saved her as a child speak to the needs of our planet today.

Recovering from Genocidal Trauma

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442616105
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Recovering from Genocidal Trauma by : Myra Giberovitch

Download or read book Recovering from Genocidal Trauma written by Myra Giberovitch and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.

The Tailor Project

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ISBN 13 : 9781772601442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tailor Project by : Andrea Knight

Download or read book The Tailor Project written by Andrea Knight and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of approximately 2,500 Jewish tailors and their families who immigrated to Canada between 1948 and 1949 through the Garment Workers' Scheme in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by : Bernice Eisenstein

Download or read book I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors written by Bernice Eisenstein and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a truly innovative memoir, the author combines her skills as a writer and illustrator to recount her early childhood in the 1950s and fragmented stories of family members lost in the war.

The Montreal Shtetl

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Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771134054
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis The Montreal Shtetl by : Zelda Abramson

Download or read book The Montreal Shtetl written by Zelda Abramson and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of Montreal and their impact on the existing Jewish community is well-recognized. But what do we really know about how survivors’ experienced their new community? Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, The Montreal Shtetl presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust survivors who settled in Montreal, where they encountered difficulties with work, language, culture, health care, and a Jewish community that was not always welcoming to survivors. By reflecting on how institutional supports, gender, and community relationships shaped the survivors’ settlement experiences, Abramson and Lynch show the relevance of these stories to current state policies on refugee immigration.

Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN 13 : 0773587365
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses by : L. Ruth Klein

Download or read book Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses written by L. Ruth Klein and published by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been thirty years since the publication of Irving Abella and Harold Troper's seminal work None is Too Many, which documented the official barriers that kept Jewish immigrants and refugees out of Canada in the shadow of the Second World War. The book won critical acclaim, but a haunting question remained: Why did Canada act as it did in the 1930s and 1940s? Answering this question requires a deeper understanding of the attitudes, ideas, and information that circulated in Canadian society during this period. How much did Canadians know at the time about the horrors unfolding against the Jews of Europe? Where did their information come from? And how did they respond, on both public and institutional levels, to the events that marked Hitler's march to power: the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws, the 1936 Olympics, Kristallnacht, and the crisis of the MS St Louis? The contributors to this collection - scholars of international repute - turn to the wider public sphere for answers: to the media, the world of literature, the university campus, the realm of international sport, and networks of community activism. Their findings reveal that the persecutions and atrocities taking place in Nazi Germany inspired a range of responses from ordinary Canadians, from indifference to outrage to quiet acquiescence. It is challenging to recreate the mindset of more than seventy years ago. Yet this collection takes up that challenge, digging deeper into archives, records, and testimonies that can offer fresh interpretations of this dark period. The answer to the question "why?" begins here. Contributors include: Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Richard Menkis, Department of History, University of British Columbia; Harold Troper, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto; Amanda Grzyb, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario; Rebecca Margolis, Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies, University of Ottawa; Michael Brown, Department of Languages, Literatures and Lingustics, York University; Norman Ravvin, Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University; and James Walker, Department of History, University of Waterloo.

The Greenies

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Publisher : HarperTrophy
ISBN 13 : 9780006393559
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Book Synopsis The Greenies by : Myra Paperny

Download or read book The Greenies written by Myra Paperny and published by HarperTrophy. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S 1947. Danny, 17, survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp but lost his entire family. Now all he wants is to come to Canada, go to school and get a job. Lilli, an Auschwitz survivor, has also been orphaned and is waiting patiently for a new life in Canada. Dreaming of a place where food doesn’t have to be secretly hoarded, where dogs are friendly and people don’t treat you like cattle, the two teens—like all teens—just want to fit in. But Canadians turn out to be strange and perplexing people. Haunted by their past, Danny and Lilli fear they will always remain outsiders. The Greenies is an inspiring novel based on the real-life experiences of those “green” newcomers, a group of over 1,000 orphaned Jewish teens who, with the help of the Canadian Jewish Congress, immigrated to Canada after World War II.

At Great Risk

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Publisher : Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
ISBN 13 : 9781989719107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis At Great Risk by : Fishel Goldig

Download or read book At Great Risk written by Fishel Goldig and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust survivors write about how they were rescued by those who refused to stand by during the war.

Confronting Devastation

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Publisher : Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
ISBN 13 : 9781988065687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Book Synopsis Confronting Devastation by : Ferenc Laczó

Download or read book Confronting Devastation written by Ferenc Laczó and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of excerpts from twenty memoirs who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.

Children of the Holocaust

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140112847
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Children of the Holocaust by : Helen Epstein

Download or read book Children of the Holocaust written by Helen Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

Witness

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Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772600083
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Book Synopsis Witness by : Eli Rubenstein

Download or read book Witness written by Eli Rubenstein and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany during WWII. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear witness to the terrible events of the past, but also to look forward. They want to inspire participants to build a world free of oppression and intolerance, a world of freedom, democracy and justice for all members of the human family. Rooted in a touring exhibit launched at the United Nations, this book is a compilation of photographs and text that give firsthand accounts from the survivors who have participated in March of the Living programs, together with reactions and responses from the people, young students in particular, of many faiths and cultures worldwide who have traveled with the group over the years.

Sustaining Memories: Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors

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ISBN 13 : 9781988065571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustaining Memories: Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors by : Multiple authors

Download or read book Sustaining Memories: Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors written by Multiple authors and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Azrieli Foundation established the Sustaining Memories Project to help survivors write their stories. A unique partnership between survivors and volunteer writing partners who were trained to work with Holocaust survivors on recording and transcribing their stories, volunteers spent countless hours on these testimonies. The strength of the bonds that form when a volunteer and a survivor create a memoir, of the emotional challenges that a survivor faces in the telling and the understanding, and the insight that the listener experiences were all part of an incredible journey. Excerpts of these co-written memoirs, never before published, are produced in this anthology to give readers a wide range of understanding of the varieties of experiences of Holocaust survivors. Sustaining Memories gives voice to Canadian Jews who suffered through ghettos, camps, hiding, fighting in the underground, as refugees in foreign countries or passing as non-Jews in daily fear of betrayal. Following their liberation, survivors often had to congregate in displaced persons camps, where many married, had children and waited years for countries to offer them new homes. Some would end up in the detention camps of Cyprus on their way to pre-state Israel; others found themselves locked behind the Iron Curtain for decades. Between 1946 and the 1980s, they all built new lives in Canada.

If, by Miracle

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Publisher : Azrieli Fndtn
ISBN 13 : 9781897470350
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis If, by Miracle by : Michael Kutz

Download or read book If, by Miracle written by Michael Kutz and published by Azrieli Fndtn. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of a courageous and resilient young boy who narrowly escapes death at the hands of the Nazi killing squads.

The Weight of Freedom

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ISBN 13 : 9781897470558
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis The Weight of Freedom by : Nate Leipciger

Download or read book The Weight of Freedom written by Nate Leipciger and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To avoid thinking I repeated the words 'after the war.' The words stuck in my mind like a mantra. After the war. The words blended into the clang of the wheels. Would there ever be an end to the war?" Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy. Introspective, complicated and raw, The Weight of Freedom is Nate's journey through a past that he can never leave behind.