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""I will be eleven years old tomorrow. I must confess I think I am pretty,"" writes Susan Garfield in her diary in 1944. Precocious and charming, Susan records the mundane along with the poignant as she describes her daily life in Budapest against the backdrop of the war. After liberation, as she searches for home, she pours her fears and anxieties as a new immigrant into another diary, the only place where she feels she truly belongs.

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It was a grey, foggy day. Frightened, I wondered what was going on. My mother tried to set my mind at ease, telling me not to worry, but she failed to reassure me. My fears were well-founded, as we soon found out.

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Born Zsuzsanna L?ffler 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. In 1954 she married Harry Garfinkel (Garfield) and started a family, eventually raising three children. Susan later earned a bachelor of arts (honours) from the University of Winnipeg and a bachelor of recreation studies from the University of Manitoba. 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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