Mina's Story: A Doctor's Memoir of the Holocaust

Andrzej H. Mrozewski is a librarian in the Public Services Department of
the J.N. DesMarais Library at Laurentian University.

Mina Deutsch’s memoir moves quickly through the happy times she spent
in her native Poland (and in Prague, where, while studying medicine, she
met her husband, Leon) before concentrating on the harrowing details of
the couple’s, and their infant’s, struggle to survive the horrible
years in eastern Poland under German and Soviet occupations. She recalls
their efforts to emigrate to Canada, and, finally, the long, often
painful, period of adjustment in a new country. The descriptions in this
well-written and carefully edited memoir of such places as Regina,
Saskatchewan, Saint John, New Brunswick, and Montreal in the 1940s and
1950s tell us how much this country and its society has changed.