Memories in Focus
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2018
- Category
- History, 20th Century, Adolescence, Historical, Jewish Studies
- Recommended Age
- 14 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 9 to 12
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988065519
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while raising a family and trying to heal his emotional scars. A poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma, Memories in Focus also offers hope and faith in the future.
About the author
Born in Lodz, Poland, on July 21, 1932, Pinchas Gutter was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. In 1945, he was liberated and taken to England. Pinchas lived in France, Israel, Brazil and South Africa before immigrating to Canada in 1985. He is the first Holocaust survivor to be immortalized in an interactive three-dimensional projection in the USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony. Pinchas Gutter lives in Toronto.