Out of Hiding

Holocaust witnesses will soon cease to exist. As Tolstoy
famously put it, what is to be done? One answer is Out of Hiding, a cross-section of stories collected from one region
of the globe—British Columbia, Canada—examining 86 authors and 163 books. Outstanding characters include Auschwitz escapee Rudolf
Vrba, the whistle-blower who is credited with saving at least 100,000 lives;
Robbie Waisman, likely the only person to sneak into a concentration camp
twice; and Dutch-born child survivor Rob Krell—the MLK of Holocaust education
in Canada. Little-known Vancouverite Jennie Mines is featured on the cover as
Jennie Lifschitz—possibly the only Canadian-born Jew to survive the death
camps. Other features include just-liberated Buchenwald photos taken by Dr. Tom
Perry, the love story behind a Warsaw Ghetto memoir by Stanislav Adler and an Afterword
on hiding by Rabbi Yosef Wosk.
Out of Hiding is an illustrated, patchwork quilt of memory and history that belongs in every British Columbia household if the Holocaust is not to be marginalized and forgotten.