Beach Moose & Amber

By Sharon Easton, Rachel Dunstan Muller (editor), Cindy Folk (editor)

Book cover of Beach Moose & Amber: Finding My Jewish History

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When Sharon found typewritten pages tucked in the back of her deceased father’s accordion folder, she had no idea she was holding an invitation to the greatest writing adventure of her life. The pages were her mother’s final attempt to record her Jewish family’s history — a history that she…

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Dorothy Mandy

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This moving story awakened new empathy in me for my extended Canadian family as they waited for news of us for so many years. It gave me a new understanding of the effects of war on families, even at such great distances.

A daughter and granddaughter tells the story of her family’s escape from the holocaust in 1939. Safely in Canada, the country we left for Germany, in the same year, they fear for their family in Lithuania as telegrams of desperation arrive and news of events in Germany become known.

From Dorothy's list on WWII impact on German, Jewish families.