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Jewish Heritage Month Virtual Program with featured speaker: Andy Reti, Holocaust survivor.
An educational Program for Jewish Heritage Month in Partnership with Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC).
About Andy:
Andy Réti is...
Jewish Heritage Month Virtual Program with featured speaker: Andy Reti, Holocaust survivor.
An educational Program for Jewish Heritage Month in Partnership with Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC).
About Andy:
Andy Réti is a child survivor of the Holocaust. Born in 1942 in Rechnitz, Austria, he was only two years old when his mother and grandmother were forced out of their home in Hungary and into a Jewish ghetto. Andy’s father and grandfather had already been moved to a forced labour camp. He was liberated from the Budapest ghetto on January 18, 1945, by the Soviet Red Army. He and his mother, grandmother and grandfather survived the horrors of the war through good fortune and grit. They immigrated to Canada shortly thereafter. Andy attributes his survival to the courage, resilience and sacrifice of his mother and grandmother. He believes that “every Holocaust survivor’s story is a love story; the love of life, family and freedom.” Andy has been involved in Holocaust education since 1998. In 2001, he wrote The Son of an Extraordinary Woman — a sequel to his mother’s book, An Ordinary Womanin Extraordinary Times, which was written in 1990. In 2016, the two books were combined and re-released as Stronger Together.