Bits and Pieces
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2007
- Category
- Jewish Studies, Historical, 20th Century
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470916
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Lodz, Poland, 1944. Teenaged Henia Rosenfarb sat with her family in a small, secret room, hiding from Nazi soldiers who were looking for them. Little could the fiery redhead have imagined that her path would take her from wartime Poland to faraway Canada.
About the author
Born in Lodz, Poland, in 1926, Henia Reinhartz endured the Lodz ghetto and survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she moved to Paris, where she graduated as a Yiddish and Hebrew teacher and met her husband. Henia immigrated to Canada in 1951 and moved to Toronto in 1952.