Stefan grows up in Warsaw, Poland, barely aware he is Jewish and part of a small, assimilated community steeped in Polish culture. But in 1939, Nazi Germany occupies Poland, and Stefan suffers the same fate as the rest of the Jewish community when he is forced into the Warsaw ghetto. At risk of deportation to the Treblinka death camp, Stefan manages to escape the ghetto and go into hiding, isolated and in constant danger. In A Symphony of Remembrance, Stefan Carter sounds an urgent call to learn from the past, acknowledge ongoing human suffering and create a more just future.

Stefan A. Carter was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928. In 1948, he immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Stefan graduated from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine in 1954 and went on to have an illustrious career in vascular medicine. He was an advocate for Holocaust education and a classical music aficionado. His book Mozart: A Meditation on His Life and Mysterious Death was published in 2006. Stefan Carter passed away in 2023.

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Katarzyna Person is a Holocaust historian and head of the research department at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. She has published on the history of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust and in the postwar period. She is the author of Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (2021) and co-author, with Johannes-Dieter Steinert, of Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (2023). Katarzyna Person lives in Warsaw.

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