From Generation to Generation
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2012
- Category
- Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470688
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Slovakia’s Low Tatra Mountains in the fall of 1944, in constant danger from the Germans occupying nearby villages, fourteen-year-old Agnes Grossmann and her family made the daring decision to escape high into the mountains and hike along treacherous ice-covered peaks to safety. Twenty-four years later, Agnes Tomasov — then married with two children — found herself on the run from post-war Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime and defected to Canada with her family, carrying only what they could fit in two suitcases.
About the author
Agnes Tomasov was born in the small town of Bardejov, Slovakia, on June 16, 1930. In 1968, following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, she immigrated to Canada, settling in Toronto with her husband and their two children.