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My heart is at ease

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  • Publisher:
    The Azrieli Foundation, 2014
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Solan, Gerta
    Date:
    Created
    2014
    Summary:

    In June 1942, when twelve-year-old Gerta is deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto—the Nazis' deceptive "model Jewish settlement"—her family helps her cope with the surrounding devastation. Later, alone in Auschwitz, Gerta is determined to survive the unbearable. Her intrepid spirit and keen observation guides her anew through post-war communism to freedom in Canada.

    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies
    Subject(s): Canada | Czechoslovakia | Holocaust survivors | Jews
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], The Azrieli Foundation
    Language(s): English