CBC Books Canada Reads 2019: Max Eisen on By Chance Alone
CBC Books Canada Reads 2019: Max Eisen on By Chance Alone
In this video Max Eisen discusses his deeply moving memoir By Chance Alone. When Eisen was 15 years old he and his family were taken from their home to Auschwitz, where he worked as a slave labourer. He survived the Holocaust and emigrated to Canada in 1949. Eisen has toured the world, educating people about the horrors he survived during the Second World War.
- 2019
- 00:04:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/27/2019
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- Subjects
- Eisen, Max [LCSH] Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography [LCSH] Jews, Czech -- Canada -- Biography [LCSH] Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography [LCSH] Holocaust survivors -- Biography [LCSH] Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia [LCSH] Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oswiecim -- Biography [LCSH] World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Biography [LCSH] Authorship [LCSH] Books and reading -- Canada [LCSH] Storytelling in literature [LCSH] Canadian literature [LCSH] English language -- Study and teaching [LCSH] Language arts [LCSH] Writing -- Study and teaching [LCSH] Social sciences [LCSH] Genocide -- Study and teaching (Secondary) [LCSH]
- Team
- Jane Van Koeverden (Producer)
- Closed captioning
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