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Escape from the edge / Morris Schnitzer.
"Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of young Morris Schnitzer during World War II. Fleeing from Nazi Germany after the violence of Kristallnacht, with his father's warning to never set foot in a concentration camp echoing in his mind, Morris resolves to fight--and survive. As he assumes three different false identities and crosses countless borders in search of safety, Morris poses as a farmhand in the Netherlands, is arrested and turned away from safety in Switzerland, is jailed in France, joins the resistance in Belgium, and, ultimately, enlists in the American army, vowing to take revenge for all that he has lost. (Holocaust survivor memoir by a prominent Canadian who was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He grew up in Germany and witnessed Kristallnacht, and escaped from Germany to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport.)"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781989719114 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xxviii, 190 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : The Azrieli Foundation, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| General Note: | Includes index. Previously published in 2002 under the title: My three selves : a memoir. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 940.5318092 Schni | 31681010229649 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
Morris Schnitzer was born in Germany in 1922. In 1947, he immigrated to Montreal, where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in science at McGill University, going on to earn his PhD in 1955. Morris worked at Agriculture Canada in Ottawa as a principal researcher in the chemistry of organic soil, going on to win the prestigious Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 1995 and writing more than 300 scientific papers over the course of his distinguished career. Morris Schnitzer lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
