Name: Susan Garfield's Book Launch
Start: 2019-12-08T14:00:00-06:00
End: 2019-12-08T15:30:00-06:00
Location: Asper Jewish Community Campus

Susan Garfield's Book Launch

The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program was established by the Azrieli Foundation in 2005 to collect, preserve and share the memoirs and diaries written by survivors who came to Canada after the war. The program is guided by the conviction that each survivor has a remarkable story to tell and that such stories play a significant role in teaching us about the importance of inclusion and the dangers of remaining silent in the face of prejudice.More than half a century later, the diversity of stories allows readers to put a face on what was lost, and to grasp the enormity of what happened to six million Jews – one story at a time.The memoirs – published in English and French  – are distributed free of charge to educational institutions across Canada, and are for sale at bookstores.

The Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program

The book launch of  Holocaust survivor Susan Garfield's memoir, "Too Many Goodbyes."

Asper Jewish Community Campus

Too Many Goodbyes, by Susan GarfieldIn 1944, as Budapest’s Jews begin to suffer under German occupation, eleven-year-old Zsuzsi (Susie) takes to her diary to write about her friends and family as she copes with what it means to be persecuted. Precocious and charming, Susie records the mundane along with the poignant as she describes her daily life in Budapest against the backdrop of the war. Her pre-teen life is marred by farewells — first to her father as he is drafted into the forced labour service, and then to her mother when Hungarian fascist collaborators take her away. Orphaned after the war, Susie makes a fateful decision to leave her relatives and embark on a journey to a new country, where she struggles to adapt and begins to yearn for her home in Hungary. Uncertain whether she made the right decision to emigrate, Susie writes all her feelings down in a new diary, the only place where she feels she truly belongs.Too Many Goodbyes combines Susan Garfield’s rare wartime diary as a young girl, her post-war diary as a teenager, and her memoir as an adult as she reflects on her losses, her sense of belonging and her home._____________________________________________________________________________________________BioBorn Zsuzsanna Löffler in Budapest in 1933, Susan Garfield immi¬grated to Canada as a war orphan in 1948 and lived in Vegreville, Alberta, before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she still lives. In 1954 she married Harry Garfield and started a family, eventually raising three children. Susan later earned a bachelor of arts (honours) from the University of Winnipeg and a bachelor of recre¬ation studies from the University of Manitoba. Her translation of her Hungarian wartime diary was published in Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors (2010), and her story as a new immigrant to Canada was told in Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947–1955 (2015).

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