The Weight of Freedom
- Publisher
- The Azrieli Foundation
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2015
- Category
- Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
- Recommended Age
- 14 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 9 to 12
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988065007
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy. Introspective, complicated and raw, The Weight of Freedom is Nate’s journey through a past that he can never leave behind.
About the author
Nate Leipciger was born in Chorzów, Poland, in 1928. He immigrated to Toronto with his father in 1948, where he attended high school and eventually obtained a university degree in engineering. In 1982, Nate chaired the Toronto Holocaust Remembrance Committee, later becoming an executive member of the Canadian Jewish Congress National Holocaust Remembrance Committee. Nate was a member of the International Council to the Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau for fifteen years and has been an educator on March of the Living trips to Poland and Israel for fifteen years.