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Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA, 5400 Westbury Ave, Montreal, QC H3W2W8
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The launch of George Reinitz and Richard King's book Wrestling with Life: From Hungary to Auschwitz to Montreal will take place at the Sylvan Adams YM-YMHA on September 13th from 7:00-9:00 p.m, in collaboration with the Jewish Public Library and the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
Paragraphe Bookstore will be present at the event selling copies of the book. All author royalties from these sales will be donated to Ometz. For additional information about the event, click here.
Wrestling with Life
From Hungary to Auschwitz to Montreal
By George Reinitz and Richard King
A story of survival and renewal from Auschwitz to success in sport and business.
George Reinitz was twelve years old when he and his family were taken from Szikszó, Hungary, and deported to Auschwitz, where many of his family members were killed. As a boy on the brink of adolescence, he experienced the horrors of a Nazi death camp. Following his liberation he returned to his hometown where he remained for a few years before immigrating to Montreal in 1948 as part of the Canadian Jewish Congress’s War Orphans Project. Read more >