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Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies Hungary and Judy’s world is shattered. One terrifying event follows another, and soon Judy is faced with the incomprehensible — Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the shadow of the gas chambers, she clings to her sisters and “camp sisters,” who are her only hope of enduring the miseries that are to come. In A Cry in Unison, Holocaust survivor, educator and human rights activist Judy Weissenberg Cohen weaves her riveting story of survival with descriptions of the political and social forces that upended her life. Her voice is a powerful call to honour the unique experiences of women in the Holocaust and to refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. This is a three-chapter sample. For more information and to purchase the full audiobook, visit: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/729995/a-cry-in-unison-by-judy-cohen/9781039008526
The author reflects on her old age, her last years, and what she has lived through and seen, and offers a wish for endless hate to end.
Judy’s family faces health challenges as Sidney is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
As a public speaker, Judy becomes interested in the discussion around gender in the Holocaust.
Judy becomes an activist and public speaker at the Toronto Holocaust Centre, as well as the co-chair of the speakers’ bureau.
Judy meets SidneyJessel Cohen, and they are married on June 9, 1961. They move to Toronto to start their family and life together.
Judy and her sister arrive by ship to Halifax, on June 11, 1948, before they board a train to Montreal. The author describes the post-war anti-communist sentiment, assimilating to Canadian fashions, and traveling around Canada.
Judy returns to Germany and is reunited with her sister who shares her experiences of the war. They are accepted by the Canadian government to come and live and work in Canada.
Judy travels back to Hungary in the summer of 1945. It is an arduous journey, and upon arriving at home and being reunited with cousins, they are faced with the effects of the war on their home.
Soon after Germany’s capitulation, the area they are in becomes designated as a Soviet zone and soon Soviet soldiers begin arriving. Now with the war over, they are free to move, but where to go?
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
