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The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger /
At the end of World War II, only nine Jews remained of the 25,000 Jews who had lived in Tarnow, Poland. Israel Unger, three of his family members, and five other Jews hid for two years behind a false wall in the attic of the Dagnan flour mill. After the war, the family was still not safe in Poland a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | At the end of World War II, only nine Jews remained of the 25,000 Jews who had lived in Tarnow, Poland. Israel Unger, three of his family members, and five other Jews hid for two years behind a false wall in the attic of the Dagnan flour mill. After the war, the family was still not safe in Poland and lived a precarious existence between France and England, until they were able to immigrate to Canada. In Montreal, Israel's father, a co-owner of a factory in Poland, was reduced to sweeping factory floors. At the local yeshiva (Jewish high school), Israel discovered chemistry, and a few short years later he left poverty behind. He had a stellar academic career, married, and raised a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. This book is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 pages): illustrations, portraits, facsimiles |
| ISBN: | 9781771120128 |