{"product_id":"child-of-the-holocaust-isbn-9780735236707","title":"Child of the Holocaust","description":"\u003cb\u003eBeautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language, and abandon his religion in order to survive. Jack wanders through Nazi-occupied Poland for four years with no place to hide and no one to trust.JACK KUPER, born Jankele Kuperblum in 1932, spent his childhood on the run through the treacherous countryside of war-torn Poland. In 1947 he landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as one of the thousand war orphans to be brought to Canada by the Jewish Community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKuper is an award-winning graphic artist, creative director, playwright, actor, producer and director, having worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before establishing the film company Kuper Productions Ltd. Among the many plays he produced, \u003ci\u003eSun in my Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the first to focus on the Holocaust in the English-speaking world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContinuously in print since it first published in 1967, \u003ci\u003eChild of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e has been translated into multiple languages. Nearly thirty years after the publication of \u003ci\u003eChild of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e, Kuper published a sequel to the book, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Smoke Cleared\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature and was a finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction, and chronicles his complex reunion with his father in the post-war years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis most recent film productions are the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWho Was Jerzy Kosinski? \u003c\/i\u003ebased on the author's friendship with the enigmatic novelist, \u003ci\u003eA Day in the Warsaw Ghetto\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fear of Felix Nussbaum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKuper lives in Toronto with his wife, the former ballet dancer Terrye Lee Swadron.A Jewish Child in Christian Disguise","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304075088101,"sku":"NP9780735236707","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780735236707.jpg?v=1767723640","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/child-of-the-holocaust-isbn-9780735236707","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}