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edition:eBook
category: Social Science
published: Sep 2014
ISBN:9781897470831
publisher: Azrieli Foundation
imprint: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program

Suddenly the Shadow Fell

by Leslie Meisels

tagged: jewish studies, historical, 20th century
Description

All 17-year-old Leslie Meisels knows in June 1944 is that he must get his family out of the terrible conditions in the ghetto in Debrecen, Hungary. Over his mother’s objections, his decision to push their way on to a transport could have sent them all to a death camp. Instead, they join the roughly 20,000 “Jews on ice” whose lives are saved — temporarily — in Austria. After the war, when Leslie is finally starting a new life in freedom in North America, he meets Eva, who is also a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, and together they face their pasts and look forward to the future.

About the Author
Leslie Meisels was born on February 20, 1927, in Nádudvar, Hungary. His whole immediate family survived the Holocaust. He immigrated to the US in 1958, following the Hungarian Revolution, and to Canada in 1967. He married Eva Silber in 1961 and they live in Toronto.

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