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Singing from the Darktime has won the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in the Poetry category.
The following is excerpted from The Canadian Jewish News:
S. Weilbach, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor in Vancouver, has won the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in the Poetry category for a long poem she had put off writing for decades because the memories were too painful.
The author’s first book, Singing from the Darktime: A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose (McGill-Queens University Press) recaptures the immediacy of Weilbach’s feelings as she travels with her parents and grandfather aboard the ill-fated refugee ship, the St. Louis, along with more than 900 refugees hoping to escape the Nazis’ clutches in 1939. Blocked from landing in Cuba, America or Canada, the St. Louis was ultimately forced to return to Europe.
In an online interview, Weilbach explained that the childhood feelings and memories she revisited in writing her story were far too delicate to be expressed in prose: only poetry would suffice.
Or listen to a Q&A with S. Weilbach
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