Mouth of Truth Buried Secrets

by Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian

• ISBN13: 9781771833226
• ISBN10: 177183322X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-04-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc

Summary

Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices , divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors. Batya Lightenberg , a Canadian wife and mother tries to live a normal life in oblivion of her troubled past while carrying a legacy of guilt and buried secrets inherited partly from her father, a successful lawyer, turned Jewish policeman in the Warsaw Ghetto. Compelled by a need to unearth the truth about her family, Batya sets out for Eastern Canada, Italy and Poland on a mission of discovery and healing.

Author Biography

Lillian Boraks-Nemetz was born in Warsaw, Poland, and is a child survivor of the Holocaust. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and spent the remainder of the war in hiding under a false identity. Boraks-Nemetz graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature. She is the author of the award winning novel Old Brown Suitcase as well as Sunflower Diary and Lenski File, and two volumes of poetry, Ghost Children and Garden of Steel. Boraks-Nemetz is a creative writing instructor at the University of British Columbia's Writing Center and often speaks to students about the consequences of racism, as a member of the Holocaust Center's Outreach Program. She is a board member of the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada. She lives and works in Vancouver, B.C.