Letters From the Lost

by Helen Waldstein Wilkes

  10. Shapiro and Weinberg, Letters From Prague, 119.

  11. See the following website for more information on the Danish rescue: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/denmark.html.

  12. For more about Auschwitz and such death marches, read Night by Elie Wiesel.

  Selected Bibliography

  Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948. Toronto: Lester Publishing Limited, 1983.

  Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

  Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Anti-Semitism: A History. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2002.

  Davies, Alan T. (Ed.) Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992.

  Dirks, Gerald E. Canada’s Refugee Policy: Indifference or Opportunism? Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1977.

  Foxman, Abraham H. Never Again?: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

  Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy. London: Collins, 1986.

  Gilbert, Martin. Never Again: A History of the Holocaust. New York: Universe Publishing, 2000.

  Hecht, Thomas O. Czech Mate: A Life in Progress. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2007.

  Koestler, Arthur. Promise and Fulfillment: Palestine 1917–1949. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1949.

  Lipstadt, Deborah E. Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: The Free Press, 1986.

  Niewyk, Donald L. (Ed.) Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

  Paris, Erna. Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2001.

  Shapiro, Raya Czerner, and Helga Czerner Weinberg. Letters From Prague, 1939–1941. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1991.

  Troper, Harold. From Immigration to Integration: The Canadian Jewish Experience, Millennium Edition. Toronto: Institute for International Affairs, B’nai Brith Canada, 2001.

  Wittrich, Robert S. Hitler and the Holocaust. New York: Random House, 2003.

  Wyden, Peter. The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001.

  Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

  Since receiving her Ph.D in French literature, Helen Waldstein Wilkes spent thirty years teaching at every level in Canada and in the U.S. Her research interests include cross-cultural understanding, language acquisition and neurolinguistics. Now retired and living in Vancouver, she is actively examining her own cultural inheritance and its impact.

  I For Canadian survivors’ memoirs, see for instance Olga Barsony-Verrall, Missing Pieces: My Life as a Child Survivor of the Holocaust (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007); Tommy Dick, Getting Out Alive: A Memoir (Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2007); John Freund, Spring’s End: A Memoir (Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2007); Rachel Shtibel, The Violin (Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2007); Vera Kovesi, Terror and Survival: A Family History (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2005); Jack Weiss, Memories, Dreams, Nightmares: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005); Leslie Vertes, Can You Stop the Wind?: An Autobiography (Montreal: Concordia Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2001); Helen Rodak-Izso, The Last Chance to Remember (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish History and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2001); Paula Draper and Richard Menkis (Eds.), New Perspectives on Canada, the Holocaust and Survivors: Nouvelles Perspectives sur le Canada, la Shoah et ses Survivants (Montreal: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, 2000); Perec Zylberberg, This I Remember (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2000); Sam Smilovic, Buchenwald 56466 (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2000); David Jacobs, Remember Your Heritage (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2000); Michel Melinicki, Bialystok to Birkenau: The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielnicki as Told to John Munro with Introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert (Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2000); Rose Ickovits Weiss Svarts, Forces of Darkness: Personal Diary of Rose Ickovits Weiss Svarts from 1938 to 1946 (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 2000); Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors in Canada (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, 1999); Lisa Appignanesi, Losing the Dead (Toronto: McArthur, 1999); Joil Alpern, No One Awaiting Me: Two Brothers Defy Death during the Holocaust in Romania (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2001). These represent a small sample of Canadian Holocaust survivors’ memoirs, and much smaller sample of survivors’ memoirs from all countries. For more on the genre, see Norman Ravvin, A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory (Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 1997).

  II See Andrew Shlomo, Childhood in Times of War (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Holocaust Studies, 2001); Marian Finkielman, Out of the Ghetto: A Jewish Orphan’s Struggle for Survival (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Holocaust Studies, 2000).

  III See for instance Bernice Eisenstein, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006); Paula S. Fass, Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second-Generation Memoir (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009).

  IV Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 3–5.

  V See Irving Abella and Harold Troper, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933 – 1948 (Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1986); David Rome, Clouds in the Thirties: On Antisemitism in Canada, 1929 – 1939: A Chapter on Canadian Jewish History, 13 vol. (Montreal: National Archives, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1977–1981); Janine Stingel, Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2000).

  VI Unlike the United States and Canada, Britian did make room for 7,500 Jewish children from 1938 to 1940.

  VII See Abella and Troper, None Is Too Many; Irving Abella, A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada (Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1990).

  VIII The congregation that Helen Wilkes mentions in her text, Congregation Or Shalom in Vancouver, is affiliated with Jewish Renewal, a non-denominational movement that has provided a point of reconnection for many Jews of the postwar generations. See http://www.aleph.org and http://www.orshalom.ca.