Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek.

Then, sent to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries to become invisible. But, after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let the past fade away as he struggles with nightmares and flashbacks. This book is a poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma but also offers hope and faith in the future.

The first part of a two-part memoir. As a minister of the United Church of Canada, Dorinda served her communities for forty-two years.

As a single mother raising a young son, she travelled to the west and worked with First Nations communities. The most difficult part of her journey took her to the Roseau River Indian Reserve in Manitoba where she witnessed the struggle to survive faced by the people there. Dorinda Vollmer has lived a life full of music, art and poetry which sustained her in the happiest and darkest of times.

Her abiding passion has always been to live a life of purpose and her story will resonate with anyone who has found themselves at a crossroad. She has learned that, when the sky darkens, people search for light and that faith in the goodness of humanity helps individuals rise above personal suffering.

In the second volume of her memoir, Dorinda continues her journey as she and her son leave The Roseau River Indian Reserve in Manitoba and settle in Ontario.

Establishing her ministry in small rural towns across the province, she sometimes found herself mired in conflict and controversy because of her progressive and inclusive views of society and used compassion and persistence to build her role as a community leader who spoke for those who needed support in whatever form their worship took.

This is the story of a woman’s lifelong dedication to faith, justice and humanity. It is a reminder to all of us to be more careful, kinder and more respectful of others, especially those who have no voice.

Jack Buchman was seven years old when World War II broke out in Warsaw, Poland where he was living with his family. As the German planes bombarded the city on September 1, 1939, they were all at home and their lives changed in an instant.

As a child during the war, he lived like an adult, taking on all the responsibilities an adult would to make sure his family had food, risking his own life to take care of his sick mother. When the war ended, he was expected to be a child again.

The transition was very difficult but, through life in an orphanage that took in surviving orphans of the Holocaust, he found a way back into civilization. In France he found Roma, the girl who would be his partner in life and, with her, he raised a family and made a life for himself in Canada, a place where he could belong. His most important advice to anyone reading his memoir is to take the threats of our enemies very seriously. Face them and fight for the right at every opportunity before it is too late.

This book is about a journey of awakening and learning the willingness to love. Ned Burwell says in the preface, “I spent the first twenty years of my life covering myself. Then I spent the next twenty years shaking off the things with which I’d covered myself.”

He devoted his life to studying spirituality and self help and spent eight years with the Ishaya Monks, eventually taking his vows and becoming a monk for one year, an experience that helped deepen his awakening.

Ned’s curious spirit and willingness to love has enlivened his ability to be a teacher to many and this book holds some of the deep wisdom that he has acquired during his journey.

It is intended to turn the reader inward and experience a personal transformation. The material in this book has the power to radically shift one’s current state of consciousness and may hold the key to the reader’s awakening.

This is the true story of a war child’s rise to success. In a world of mounting chaos and upheaval, the incredible story of Alieza Mogadam’s young life affirms that we can craft our own destiny. Alieza was able to flee war-torn Iran and find his footing as a youth alone in Switzerland, then in South of France and ultimately making a life for himself in the telecom business before immigrating to Canada.

Mogadam’s story is both extraordinary and perfectly ordinary, documenting what it is like to come of age alone and with no permanent place to call home but ultimately establishing roots in new soil.  It is the story of finding strength through adversity, with will and determination, to craft one’s own destinies.

Betty Ann Connelly travelled the world for over 28 years as a flight attendant and volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross for five years teaching violence prevention in schools and to community group. After retiring, she started her own consulting business and enjoyed performing stand-up comedy at a club in Calgary.

Her life suddenly changed in 2007 when a car accident left her with a traumatic brain injury.  The experience revived long-buried memories of a harrowing past that required all her courage to face.  This memoir is the story of her escape from the haunting darkness of trauma and the freedom, peace and joy that comes from letting go.

An unflinching portrait of a young girl’s struggle for survival in Nigeria.  Tife dreams of a future where she can be anyone she wants to be. But her dreams are shattered when she is assaulted.  With her world turned upside down, she fights for justice, knowing that her pain is not hers alone.  This novel tells a story that is all too familiar to many girls and women around the world.  But it also reveals the power of hope and healing. 

In My Heart Cries Out for Justice, the reader will find a compelling narrative that recognizes the humanity of all those who have been marginalized, oppressed and stigmatized but also shows how to find re4demption in the power of resilience and the courage to demand justice.

Irene Kurtz was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1928 and her first 11 years were very happy, surrounded by loving parents who were devoted to each other, their families and their four children.  When WWII broke out in September 1939, everything changed in the blink of an eye.  When her mother and younger sister were taken away in early 1942, leaving Irene and her father alone, 14-year-old Irene’s agony became unbearable.  She was captured on the street in the midst of the Uprising in Warsaw Ghetto and taken to the death camp of Majdanek and, from there, to the forced labour camps of Skarzysko and Czestochowa.  When the war ended, she was 17 years old.

“I am writing this book,” she says, “in the hope that it will never happen again.  I want people to read what happened to me and so many others so it will never b e forgotten or repeated.”