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Title

{en} Jack Kuper (b.1932). Child of the Holocaust (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1967)

KEYWORDS: <Poland> <Hidden Children> / <Lublin Orphanage> <Canada>

Abstract

"Offers the true account of an eight-year-old boy who returned to his Polish town one day to find that all the Jews had been sent away and describes his young years traveling fearfully around the country in the hopes of finding his people and a place to call home."--Publisher description.

Authorship

Jack Kuper (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor -- Jack Kuper (Jankele Kuperblum) survived the war alone as a street child, disguised for years as a Polish peasant and a Christian to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. After liberation he was placed in a Jewish orphanage in Lublin, Poland. He had to learn how to be a Jew again. During the years in hiding he had forgotten his language, culture and religion. In 1947, he was brought to Halifax by Canada’s Jewish community. He ended up settling in Toronto and working at the CBC.

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+== Title ==
+{en} [[Jack Kuper]] (b.1932). '''''Child of the Holocaust''''' (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1967)
+KEYWORDS: <Poland> <Hidden Children> / <Lublin Orphanage> <Canada>
+== Abstract ==
+"Offers the true account of an eight-year-old boy who returned to his Polish town one day to find that all the Jews had been sent away and describes his young years traveling fearfully around the country in the hopes of finding his people and a place to call home."--Publisher description.
+== Authorship ==
+Jack Kuper (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor -- Jack Kuper (Jankele Kuperblum) survived the war alone as a street child, disguised for years as a Polish peasant and a Christian to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. After liberation he was placed in a Jewish orphanage in Lublin, Poland. He had to learn how to be a Jew again. During the years in hiding he had forgotten his language, culture and religion. In 1947, he was brought to Halifax by Canada’s Jewish community. He ended up settling in Toronto and working at the CBC.
+[[Category:Holocaust Children Studies--1960s]]
+[[Category:Holocaust Children Studies--English]]
 [[Category:Holocaust Children, Poland (subject)]]
-[[Category:Holocaust Memoirs (subject)]]
+[[Category:Holocaust Children, 1932 (subject)]]
+[[Category:Holocaust Children, Memoirs (subject)]]
+[[Category:Street Children (subject)]]
+[[Category:Lublin Orphanage (subject)]]