Judi’s sister Nadine finds a newspaper clipping revealing that Nadine, born at sea at the height of a storm, had a twin who did not survive. Judi assumes the task of Remembrance for Holocaust victims and for her parents, always reticent about their incredible flight from Europe to a new life found through their children and the welcome in North America.
Born two years after World War II, the author recounts the suffering that her parents endured to reach freedom. Their parents had put the painful past behind them and built a happy, carefree life for their children while using their own unique talents and education to enrich their adopted country of Canada.
Paul Sekelj and Trudy Katzenstein literally crossed Europe to escape Hitler’s Final Solution for “the Jewish question.” Eventually, desperation led them to accept the French Resistance’s plan to cross the Pyrénées into Spain. Thus began the journey, fraught with perils and hardships never imagined. The book is carefully documented and beautifully illustrated with Jean-Pierre Cahorn’s photographs of Paul’s emotionally charged paintings.
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