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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Child of the Holocaust

Penguin Modern Classics Edition

by (author) Jack Kuper

Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Initial publish date
Jan 2019
Category
Personal Memoirs, Holocaust, Jewish
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552638156
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $11.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780735236707
    Publish Date
    Jan 2019
    List Price
    $19.95

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Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest.

Jankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language, and abandon his religion in order to survive. Jack wanders through Nazi-occupied Poland for four years with no place to hide and no one to trust.

About the author

JACK KUPER has been an actor, a graphic artist, a playwright and an advertising agency creative director. He is also an award-winning filmmaker. His film Run! was honoured by the Venice Film Festival, and he received a Gemini for A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto-A Birthday Trip in Hell. Kuper is also the author of After the Smoke Cleared. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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