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Bernice Eisenstein


Bernice Eisenstein was born in 1949 in Toronto, shortly after her parents immigrated to Canada. She is an artist whose illustrations have appeared in a variety of Canadian magazines and periodicals, including the Globe and Mail. She has worked as a freelance editor while also writing the occasional book review for the Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.

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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Written by Bernice Eisenstein

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; History - Holocaust; Comics & Graphic Novels - Graphic Novels
978-0-7710-3064-2 (0-7710-3064-9)

September 25, 2007 | $24.99



I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors distills, through text and drawings, including panels in the comic-book format, Bernice Eisenstein’s memories of her 1950s’ childhood in Toronto with her Yiddish-speaking parents, whose often unspoken experiences of war were nevertheless always present. The memories also draw on inherited fragments of stories about...