“It is not easy for me to remember these times, but I feel that I must tell everything, no matter how much it hurts.”
“When I look at my past, here is the only way I can explain myself: when someone builds a house and the foundation is not stable, the house will fall. This is how I lived my life — hanging in the air, waiting to fall.”
Join us and the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program on June 8th at 7pm at the Montreal Holocaust Museum for the launch of Andrew Fuchs’s memoir, The Wind Carries Me/Le Vent me porte. This is the first bilingual memoir to be published by the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program.
At eight years old, Andrew sees his carefree childhood vanish when the German army marches into Budapest, Hungary, in March 1944. Separated from their parents, Andrew and his sister, Edit, are passed between children’s homes before waiting out the Siege of Budapest in a building protected by the Red Cross. With the war’s end comes devastating news — Andrew is now an orphan — yet he strives to hold on to his mischievous spirit as he rebuilds his life.
The event will feature a short film about Andrew Fuchs’s life, followed by a conversation with the editors about the experience of creating this bilingual memoir. The evening will also include a Q&A with Andrew Fuchs and a choir performance.
Tickets are free and reservations are required.
Andrew Fuchs’s memoir will be distributed free of charge at the launch.
The event will be followed by a reception.
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