Max Bornstein's epic account of surviving as a Polish child born into desperate poverty; a boy who lived in Canada for ten years but returned to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power; and a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris who managed to escape as France fell to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish camp, is breathtaking in scope. Released to a British envoy and relocated to war-time England, forbidden to join the British forces and alone in a strange country without family, the stress of his traumas lead to an emotional breakdown and admission to a psychiatric facility. Max Bornstein's unusual candour in recounting his struggles with mental health add powerful dimension to his Holocaust memoir. Rich in details of pre-war life in Poland, France and Canada and life for Jewish refugees in war-time Britain, If Home Is Not Here gives rare insights into the experiences of an undocumented Jewish boy who is caught up in political forces beyond his control.

If Home Is Not Here (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 15)

Biographies & Memoirs

Bornstein, Max

Community & Culture

The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program

An incomparable story of a stateless young man who spends his boyhood years in Canada only to return to Europe on the advent of the Third Reich and find himself on the run through France, incarcerated in Spain and suffering a complete mental breakdown in England.

Citoyen de nulle part (La Collection Azrieli des mmoires de survivants de l'Holocauste) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Azrieli Foundation

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