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Winterlight

The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors

Winter Light is about a sequence of serendipitous rescues—an emotional rags-to-riches story spanning decades through the milestones of an unexpectedly fortuitous life. At its core stands a little girl buffeted by huge historical events which she didn’t live through personally but which marked her forever.

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A child of Holocaust survivors, Grace was always searching for shelter but knew that her home was the last place where she could find it. She was eager to be out there in the world, but at every turn had to battle the demons which permeated her home – hissing their frightening, grim messages. Montréal offered Grace the chance of a lifetime. She was four years old when she discovered the joie-de-vivre of her French-Canadian neighbors in the working-class east end of her beloved city. As she grew older other serendipitous “rescues” arrived in surprising ways in many different places.

Vivid and lyrical, Winter Light is a deeply moving memoir dedicated to all who are coming from places of trauma. It is about the vast unknown territory of the human heart, where love and hope can rise above everything – in spite of the ghosts that still haunt us.

LAUNCH: 8 September 2024

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Author: Grace Feuerverger
Series: Holocaust Heritage
Genre: Holocaust
Tag: Holocaust memoir
ASIN: B0D9MK5HXF
ISBN: 9789493322608
List Price: $18,95
eBook Price: $5,95
"Feuerverger's search for a "place of inner solace" is profoundly inspiring ... often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is transmitted generationally...This is a powerful story, conveyed with deep humanity and insight."
– Kirkus Reviews
With her parents' survival of the Holocaust a dark shadow in the background, Grace Feuerverger's moving memoir takes us into the sunlight. Her first discovery of crossing the border into another culture - that of French-speaking Canada - leads to a life of more languages, more borders crossed. Her description of how she joyfully introduced that wider world to her students made me wish I had been one of them."
– Adam Hochschild, Historian and Journalist (UC Berkeley) and author of Americn Midnight
In this profound work of poetic beauty Grace takes us from the minefields of the world's tragic past into the pale beauty of winter light streaming through windows etched in frost. This is a very personal story. The music of its words are filled with wisdom and courage and affection for the broken hearts innocently cast upon the shores we inhabit. We are privileged to share Grace's tears of joy and sadness and are the better and wiser for having done so.
– Roseann O'Reilly Runte, President and CEO of The Canada Foundation for Innovation
"From the very first sentence to the very last this is a wonderfully written memoir. It shows the long shadow cast by the war and how while everyone's experience was essentially the same what really matters is that everyone's experience was essentially different."
– Daniel Finkelstein, Member, House of Lords, UK, and author of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
"Feuerverger's memoir reminds us that the traumatic legacy of the Holocaust is varied and manifests in deeply personal ways across generations. Her unflinching and vulnerable story reveals truths about pain, self-preservation, and healing." 
– Hannah Weisman, Executive Director, Magnes Museum of Jewish Art and Culture, Berkeley CA
"Engrossing and spirited, Grace Feuerverger's memoir captures both the darkness that clings to a child of Holocaust survivors and the light of a fully realized life."
– Paula S. Fass, Professor Emerita (UC Berkeley) and author of Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir
"This is a heavenly book, enlightened and enlightening, deeply touching and deeply humanizing. It is much, much more than the memoir of the child of Holocaust survivors. In exquisitely descriptive language Winter Light takes you on a journey that opens new doors of understanding for what it means to be human."
– Evelin G. Lindner, Professor, University of Oslo and Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Group (Columbia University)
"In Winter Light Grace Feuerverger depicts her bright, passionate younger self becoming a successful scholar, a happy wife, despite and because of her parents, whose lives remain deeply shadowed by the Holocaust. Her vivid writing, full of wit and warmth, makes even the darkest stories a pleasure. This is an eloquent, irresistible memoir."
– Margot Livesey, author of The Road from Belhaven
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Grace Feuerverger

Grace Feuerverger

Grace Feuerverger was born and raised in her beloved city of Montréal surrounded by a multitude of languages and cultures inside and outside her home. She is professor emerita of education and ethnography at the University of Toronto, and taught courses on language, culture and identity as well as peace education for many years.

Grace was educated at McGill University, the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, the University of California at Berkeley, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Toronto. She has also been an invited member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO for many years.

Among her many publications are two award-winning books: Oasis of Dreams (about a cooperative Jewish-Palestinian village in Israel) and Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (about education as a sacred life journey). Although now retired, her heart will always be in the classroom with her students. Grace and her husband divide their time between Berkeley and Toronto.

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