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| Ms. Kacer with novels in background |
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| Ms. Kacer's mother |
Carman Collegiate's grade 9 students were honored to
have been a part of Canadian Children's Book Week on Monday, May 5th when the
collegiate hosted Toronto author Kathy Kacer. Ms. Kacer is the author of over a
dozen novels, each focusing on the Holocaust. Kacer's own mother who went
into hiding as a teenager in the former Czechoslovakia, and her father is
a survivor of two concentration camps. Ms. Kacer shared with the
students the story of her mother in Gabi's Dresser, who hid from SS
soldiers in a dresser as they ransacked her family home looking for
her, and its sequel, The Night Spies, where her mother's entire family went
into hiding in a farmer's hayloft. Ms. Kacer's presentation included
images of her family and places her stories occurred. She continues her book
tour throughout Manitoba for the duration of the week.
