If, By Miracle
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2013
- Category
- Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470749
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Nearly buried alive, ten-year-old Michael Kutz narrowly escaped the Nazi death squad that killed 4,000 Jews, including his own family, in his hometown of Nies´wiez?. Guided by his mother’s last words and determined to survive, he became the youngest member of a partisan resistance group in the dense Belorussian forest, and took part in daring operations against the Nazis and their collaborators
About the author
Michael Kutz was born in Nies´wiez?, Poland (present-day Belarus), on November 21, 1930. He arrived in Canada as a war orphan in 1948 and lived in Winnipeg before settling in Montreal in the early 1950s, where he joined various charitable organizations dedicated to helping disadvantaged youth, the elderly and war veterans. Michael Kutz and his wife, Pat, live in Montreal.