Survivor Story: We Became Farmers

“After my brother and I, Slovakian businessmen, were arrested and beaten by the Nazis, Canada agreed to admit us if we settled in a rural area. So we became farmers in Ontario. Our sister and parents did not survive the war.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Canada only admitted Jewish refugees willing to toil in the fields

Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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