In Fragile Moments / The Last Time
- Publisher
- Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- May 2016
- Category
- Jewish Studies, Historical, 20th Century
- Recommended Age
- 14 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 9 to 12
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988065151
- Publish Date
- May 2016
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Born two hundred kilometres away from each other and two years apart, Zsuzsanna Fischer and Eva Steinberger are both thrown into chaos when Germany occupies Hungary and destroys their peaceful childhoods. In the spring of 1944, as Zsuzsanna and Eva are sent into ghettos and then to Auschwitz, they each take refuge in the one constant in their lives – their older sisters. While Zsuzsanna frantically documents the end of the war in her diary, pages that she will return to when faced with the trauma of post-war revolution in Hungary, Eva barely escapes death and, shattered by so many tragedies, dreams of finding freedom and family. Two stories etched in pain and hope, In Fragile Moments and The Last Time mirror the remarkable differences of similar paths of survival.
About the authors
Zsuzsanna Fischer was born in Tornyospálca, Hungary, in 1925. After the war, she married Holocaust survivor Joseph Spiro. They lived in Budapest with their two sons until the 1956 Hungarian Uprising – an event that Zsuzsanna documented in a diary – and immigrated to Canada in 1957. Zsuzsanna Spiro lives in Toronto.
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Eva Steinberger was born in Nagyvárad, Hungary, in 1927. She immigrated to Canada in 1948, settling in Montreal where she worked as a bookkeeper. Eva married Max Shainblum in 1959; they have two children. Eva Shainblum lives in Montreal.