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BC Books Online was created for anyone interested in BC-published books, and with librarians especially in mind. We'd like to make it easy for library staff to learn about books from BC publishers - both new releases and backlist titles - so you can inform your patrons and keep your collections up to date.
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Description
The testimony of survivors is the ultimate refutation of claims that the Holocaust did not occur. In this profoundly honest Holocaust memoir, Michel Mielnicki takes us from the pleasures and charms of pre-war Polish Jewry (now entirely lost) into some of the darkest places of the twentieth century.
Contributor Notes
Holocaust survivor Michel Mielnicki was born in 1927 in Wasikow, a few kilometers from Bialystok in north-eastern Poland. In 1945, he settled in Paris, where he served his apprenticeship in France's fashion industry. In 1953, he emigrated to Canada with his wife and infant son. Within a short span of time, "Mr Michel," as he soon became known, was one of Canada's premier fur fashion designers, as well as one of his adopted nation's most fervent Holocaust educators. In 1966, the Mielnickis moved from Montreal to Vancouver, where Michel gradually shifted his business interests from fashion to real estate. Holocaust education, however, remained a constant passion in his life.
