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Too Many Goodbyes: The Diaries of Susan Garfield

Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary

by (author) Susan Garfield

Publisher
The Azrieli Foundation
Initial publish date
Dec 2019
Category
History, Adolescence, 20th Century, Historical, Jewish Studies
Recommended Age
14 to 18
Recommended Grade
9 to 12
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781989719121
    Publish Date
    Dec 2019
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

In 1944, as Budapest’s Jews begin to suffer under German occupation, eleven-year-old Zsuzsi (Susie) takes to her diary to write about her friends and family as she copes with what it means to be persecuted. Precocious and charming, Susie records the mundane along with the poignant as she describes her daily life in Budapest against the backdrop of the war. After the war, uncertain whether she made the right decision to emigrate, Susie writes all her feelings down in a new diary, the only place where she feels she truly belongs.

About the author

Born Zsuzsanna Löffler in Budapest in 1933, Susan Garfield immigrated to Canada as a war orphan in 1948 and lived in Vegreville, Alberta, before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she still lives. Her English translation of her Hungarian wartime diary was published in Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors (2010), and her story as a new immigrant to Canada was told in Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947–1955 (2015).

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