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  • If Home is Not Here

    by Max Bornstein ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Max Bornstein’s epic account of a poor Jewish boy born in 1920s Poland is breathtaking in scope. Not quite two when he immigrates to Canada, he returns to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power. Barely surviving as a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris, he manages to escape as France falls to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp. Rich in details of pre-war ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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  • Getting Out Alive

    by Tommy Dick ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick was killed, only to resurface. Born into a Hungarian family who had converted from Judaism, Tommy soon found out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he was still a Jew, still a target for murder. On the run and in disguise, Tommy was chased by death as much as he was by luck. Getting Out Alive is a vivid and gripping account of how the courageous acts of others, unshakeable ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Weight of Freedom

    by Nate Leipciger ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    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. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Joy Runs Deeper

    by Bronia Beker, Joseph Beker ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Bronia and Josio (Joseph) grew up in Kozowa, a shtetl filled with lively culture, eccentric characters and extended family. When Bronia met Josio, she was charmed by his confidence and fearlessness. Separated when Josio was drafted into the army, reunited amid the chaos of war, their connection endured as their persecution intensified. When everything they held dear was lost, together they built a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • If Only It Were Fiction

    by Elsa Thon ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Strong-willed and ambitious, sixteen-year-old Elsa Thon is working as a photographer’s apprentice when the Nazis occupy her town of Pruszków, Poland in 1939. Every ounce of her will and ingenuity is called into play as she moves from ghetto to ghetto, throws in her lot with a Zionist youth group and is recruited by the Jewish underground. Despite her deep belief that destiny is determining her ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • A Name Unbroken

    by Michael Mason ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos Friedman drew on his wits to survive. Recruited into forced labour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimately, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Mühldorf, Miklos never stopped fighting to change his fate. After the war, he risked everything in order to leave his past behind. Decades later, a chance meeting in Toronto led Miklos, now Michael ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Before All Memory Is Lost

    Women's Voices from the Holocaust

    Edited by Myrna Goldenberg, Myrna Goldberg ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In this first Azrieli Foundation anthology, twenty-five women reflect on their experiences of survival – from the heart-stopping fears of hiding to the extreme risks of “passing” as non-Jews, and from the terrors of the Nazi camps to the treacheries of the Soviet Union. This powerful collection, woven together by the common thread of resistance, features a wide variety of narrative styles, ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Never Far Apart

    by Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrived in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which took both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto was fresh in their minds, as were their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto were far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigated their new surroundings, they each ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gatehouse to Hell

    by Felix Opatowski ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family. It is a skill that will serve him well as he tries to stay alive in Nazi-occupied Poland. With dogged determination, Felix endures months of harrowing conditions in the ghetto and slave labour camps until he is deported to the Auschwitz ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Shadows Behind Me

    by Willie Sterner ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    For six desperate years, Willie Sterner’s skill as a painter saved him from death at the hands of the Nazis. Faced with inhumane conditions in slave labour camps and grieving the loss of his close-knit family, Sterner relied on courage and ingenuity to hold onto his dignity. Through almost random luck, he came under the protection of the famed Oskar Schindler and became his personal art restorer. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • We Sang in Hushed Voices

    by Helena Jockel ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel thought only about how to save “her” children as she accompanied them all the way to Auschwitz. Her account of living and surviving in the camp is clear-eyed and poignant, sometimes recording the too-brief moments of beauty and kindness that accompany the unremitting cruelty. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Across the Rivers of Memory

    by Felicia Carmelly ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Ten-year-old Felicia Steigman is confused by the sudden disruption to her life when she is expelled from school and forced to wear a yellow star. But she is completely unprepared for what happens next – the forced abandonment of her home and a gruelling journey, overseen by cruel Romanian Nazi collaborators, to Transnistria, a squalid place that doesn’t even exist on a map. Surviving three years ... Read more

    $6.29 USD