Spring's End
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2007
- Category
- Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897470909
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
A young boy who loved soccer as much as he loved to write, John Freund found his joyful childhood shattered by the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. John’s family suffered through the systematic erosion of their rights only to be deported to Theresienstadt – en route to the Auschwitz death camp.
About the author
John Freund was born in 1930 in Ceské Budejovice, a town located south of Prague, in Czechoslovakia. He was liberated by American troops in 1945 and in March 1948, John immigrated to Toronto. He and his wife, Nora, live in Toronto.