Marcel Braitstein (M / Belgium, 1935), Holocaust survivor

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Marcel Braitstein (M / Belgium, 1935), Holocaust survivor

  • MEMOIRS : Five to Ten (1995; ET 1999)

Biography

Marcel Braitstein was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1935. He survived the Holocaust hidden by a Christian family whle his parents perished. Moved to Canada in 1951. A Member of the Royal Canadian Academy, he has been a Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal since 1969. He was also a visiting professor at Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. from 1973-1975 and was also Director of Fine Arts Department at UQAM from 1986-1991.

Book : Five to Ten (1995; ET 1999)

  • Marcel Braitstein, Enfant traqué, enfant caché (Montréal, Québec : XYZ ; Echternach, Luxembourg : Editions Phi, 1995). English ed. Five to Ten: Story of a Hidden Child (1999)

"Memoirs of a Jew born in Antwerp in 1935 as Motl Brajtsztajn. When the Germans bombed Antwerp in May 1940, Braitstein and his parents vainly attempted to flee to France. After his mother's death from illness, he went to live with her parents in Charleroi. In 1942 Braitstein was placed in hiding with a Christian family named Lebeau, and raised as a Christian. After the liberation he was returned to his grandparents; he had difficulty readjusting to his original name and identity. His father died in Auschwitz. At age 15, he rejected all religion for a Marxist humanism. In 1951 he emigrated with his grandparents to Montreal. He became a sculptor, an engaged artist whose works depict the suffering of all people."--Publisher description.

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