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As the German army invades his hometown in Poland, young Moishe Kantorowitz decides to mentally record everything he sees. In this movingly descriptive and devastating portrayal of prewar Jewish life and its destruction during the Holocaust, Moishe bears witness to incomprehensible cruelties and to the lives and communities that are rapidly wiped out by the Nazis. Moishe's entire family is murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Moishe, selected to live, endures brutal treatment and constant hunger, his survival now dependent on the whims of his overseers and small acts of generosity that bring him back from the brink of death.

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Moishe Kantorowitz (1923-2008) was born in the town of Shershev, Poland (now Sarasova, Belarus). He immigrated to Canada in 1948 and eventually moved to St. John's, Newfoundland, where he worked as a traveling salesman. Moishe received an honorary degree from Memorial University for his work in Holocaust education. Bożena Karwowska is a professor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her academic interests include feminist theories, migration studies and representations of the Holocaust. She recently published The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz: Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience (2023). Dr. Carson Phillips is the manager of academic initiatives at the Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program. Phillips is adjunct faculty in Holocaust studies at Yeshiva University and Gratz College, as well as a Canadian delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and incoming chair (2026) of the Academic Working Group.

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