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Marie Doduck’s memoir launches a week before International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Peak Web February 8, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer The Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Memoirs Program in collaboration with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, organized a book launch of Marie (Mariette) Doduck’s memoir A Childhood Unspoken. The book launch was held on January 22 at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Doduck was born in 1935 to a Jewish family in Brussels, Belgium. Doduck is a child survivor of the Holocaust. After the German invasions of Poland and subsequently Belgium during World War II, Doduck was separated from her mother and seven siblings. She lived in hiding with a foster family until she was…
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Jewish Book Festival presents a collection of vivid graphic novels
Peak Web January 26, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer Every year, the shelves of the Cherie Smith Jewish Community Centre’s Jewish Book Festival, one of Vancouver’s “leading cultural and literary events,” are filled with powerful narratives, knitting together a community of prominent and emerging…
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