After the Smoke Cleared

Publisher: Stoddart
Product Code: YB02510
ISBN: 0773757929
Author: Jack Kuper
Condition: Collectible Like New

Price: $49.99

Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Book in excellent condition.

After spending years disguised as a Polish peasant to escape the horrors of the Holocaust, Jack Kuper, then known as Jankele Kuperblum, was placed in a Jewish orphanage in Lublin, Poland, following the war. There was just one problem: he had forgotten his language, culture and religion, and the other kids thought he was a Polish spy. In the end, the pull of Kuper’s upbringing was too strong. Even after living for years as a Christian, he couldn’t forget his identity and traditions. So Kuper remained Jewish and in 1947, he was brought to Halifax by Canada’s Jewish community. He ended up settling in Toronto and working at the CBC. But even as Kuper built his life in Toronto, he couldn’t forget about the life and loved ones he had lost. He began working on a memoir, which he published in 1967. Those Jews who knew they would perish in the Holocaust wanted two things above all else, according to Kuper. The first was to be avenged; the second was to be remembered. Kuper doesn’t know how to take revenge, but he does know how to keep memories alive.'
Binding
Paperback  
Edition
1994
Condition
Collectible Like New
Collector Alert
Signed
Language
English