E96: Fate Undecided
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470633
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
The son of an Antwerp diamond merchant, Paul-Henri Rips was ten when the Nazis invaded Belgium and ended his “golden childhood” forever. Guided by his father’s admonition to “Sei a mensch” (Be a decent person), Rips managed to hold onto his humanity in the face of unfathomable inhumanity.
About the author
Paul-Henri Rips was born in 1929 in Antwerp. He left Antwerp in 1950 and moved to the Belgian Congo and then to South Africa, where he married his wife, Lily. In 1997, the couple immigrated to Toronto to join their children and grandchildren.