Peta Karel Neuman / Peter Charles Newman (M / Austria, 1929), Holocaust survivor
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Peta Karel Neuman / Peter Charles Newman (M / Austria, 1929), Holocaust survivor
KEYWORDS : <Refugees> <Canada>
Biography
Born in Vienna, Austria, Newman emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His parents were Wanda Maria and Oscar Karel Neumann, a self-made wealthy factory owner. Newman was educated at Upper Canada College, and had a career in Canada as journalist and writer.