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The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger / At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space. Against all odds, they emerged alive. Now, after decades of silence, here is Israel’s “unwritten diary.” Nine people lived behind that false wall above the Dagnan factory in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults leaving the hideout at night were able to forage. Even at the end of the war, however, Jewish people emerging from hiding were still not safe. After the infamous postwar Kielce pogrom, Israel’s parents sent him and his brother as “orphans” to France in a program called Rescue Children, a Europe-wide attempt to find Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust. When the family was finally reunited, they lived a precarious existence between France—as people sans pays—and England until the immigration papers for Canada came through in 1951. In Montreal, in the world described so well by Mordecai Richler, Israel’s father, a co-owner of a factory in Poland, was reduced to sweeping factory floors. At the local yeshiva (Jewish high school), Israel discovered chemistry, and a few short years later he left poverty behind. He had a stellar academic career, married, and raised a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Holocaust--Personalnarratives. / Unger,Israel,1938-.
Classification	940.431 GAM
Publisher	Ontario, Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013
Subject	Holocaust--Personal narratives.Unger, Israel, 1938- .Holocaust--Hidden childrenHolocaust-MemoirsEastern Europe--Holocaust survivors--HistoryBased on a true Holocaust survivors storyJewish children in the HolocaustHolocaust survivors--Canada--Biography.Tarnow (Wojewodztwo Malopolskie, Poland)--Biography.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Tarnow (Wojewodztwo Malopolskie)--Family--Personal narratives.Immigration and emigrationJewish-Emmigration-Immigration
Description	220
ISBN	9781554588312
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