If Home is Not Here
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2012
- Category
- Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470701
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Not quite two when he immigrated to Canada, Max Bornstein returned to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power. Barely surviving as a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris, he escaped France when it fell to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp.
About the author
Max Bornstein was born on November 12, 1921, in Warsaw, Poland. After the war, he arrived back on Canadian soil on June 25, 1947. Max and his wife, Min, were married for more than sixty years. Min passed away in 2010; Max Bornstein passed away in 2015.