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      By Eisen, Max
       2017., HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Bio E36b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivor Finalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous "death march" in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing. Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of1944--five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family's yearly Passover Seder--gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer. One day, Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured, he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician, Tadeusz Orzeszko, operated on him. Despite his significant injury, Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last twenty-two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world. The author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding.
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      By Ptack, Aviva  King, Richard
       2019., Adult, John Aylen Books Call No: Bio P975m    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: As a Holocaust survivor, Aviva Ptack counts herself among the lucky ones. To see oneself as fortunate in unfortunate, even dire circumstances, takes an exceptional person and makes for an exceptional memoir. Ptack's account of her time in Lithuania after the Nazi invasion of that country has been pieced together from memories recovered many decades later and taped accounts from her adopted parents who brought her up as their own. That has been augmented by a carefully-researched historical commentary and context provided by Richard King, whose skill as a trained historian shines throughout the account. Ptack weaves a fascinating portrait of resilience, ingenuity, pluck and survival in times that brought out both the best and worst of human kind. But Aviva Ptack's work is more than a memoir. As the scene shifts to Canada and she recounts the good fortune of her life in Montreal with her husband and later children, she traces her search for identity and her need to understand how where she came from shaped who she is today. No matter the reason you pick up this book, you will be captivated and rewarded for your reading.
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      By Salsberg, Kitty, 1932-  Foster, Ellen, 1935-
       [2015], The Azrieli Foundation Call No: Bio S159n   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: The Azrieli series of holocaust survivor memoirsSummary Note: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. 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 Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart.
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      By Ney, Arthur, 1930-  Azrieli Foundation
       c2014., Adult, The Azrieli Foundation Call No: QWF Bio N568w   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Azrieli series of Holocaust survivor memoirs.Summary Note: Arthur Ney, a twelve-year-old smuggler outside the Warsaw ghetto walls when the ghetto uprising began in the spring of 1943, fled to the countryside with false papers to work on a farm. Almost a year later, he returned to Warsaw and faced the realization that his family was gone. Under the protection of the Salesian Fathers as a Christian· boy, he struggled with loneliness, guilt, fear and indecision regarding his dual identity.· When the Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, then fourteen-year-old Arthur Ney joined the barricades and fought the Germans W Hour is the code name for the Uprising.
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      By Myers, Muguette, 1931  Azrieli Foundation
       2015., The Azrieli Foundation Call No: Bio M996w    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: The Azrieli series of holocaust survivor memoirs   Volume: 7Summary Note: In 1942, in the village of Champlost, France, ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer finds solace from the war. As her mother risks living in a Paris swarming with Nazis, the mayor of Champlost rips up letters of denunciation and the priest gives Muguette a new Catholic name, Marie. Sheltered by the kindness of the townspeople, Muguette delights in her new surroundings, filling her days by learning to ride a bike, recite catechism and adapt to rural life.Written in vignettes with child-like charm and innocence, Where Courage Lives provides rich insight into life in a small village against the backdrop of the war, paying tribute to both Muguetteœs indomitable mother and the courage of the people of Champlost.
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      By Reinitz, George, 1932-  King, Richard
       Ã2017., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF Bio R368w    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Footprints series   Volume: 25.Summary Note: "Wrestling With Life is the autobiography of George Reinitz. George was 12 years old when he and his family were taken from their home in Hungary and deported to Auschwitz. George recounts experiences in one of the worst places humans ever created, how he learned and used survival skills, skills that he later applied to building his business . Following his liberation from Auschwitz George made his way back to his home town of Szikszo, Hungary. He remained there for a few years and then made his way to Canada as part of the Orphans' Project. He arrived in Canada in 1948 with nothing in his pockets but his hands. George settled in Montreal and accomplished a great deal. He became a world class wrestler; he competed in international events and became the flag bearer for the Canadian team at the Maccabiah games in 1957--less than ten years after arriving in Canada. George started working immediately upon his arrival in Canada; his first job was at the Richstone Bakery. After working at a number of jobs which included working at the tobacco harvest on a farm in Ontario, George found his calling in the furniture business. He formed his own company, Jaymar Furniture, which became a leading manufacturer and a company which still operates successfully in Quebec. Wrestling With Life is a moving account of a child's survival under the most difficult of circumstances. It tells the story of one man's hard-won success as a businessman and an athlete who also devoted himself to philanthropy."--