Mina Rosner (1913–1997) was a native of Buczacz, Galicia,

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(now

Buchach Buchach ( uk, Бучач; pl, Buczacz; yi, בעטשאָטש, Betshotsh or (Bitshotsh); he, בוצ'אץ' ''Buch'ach''; german: Butschatsch; tr, Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of Te ...

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), who survived

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by hiding with a Polish family. After the war, she moved to

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, Canada, with her husband, Michael Rosner. She recorded her war-time experiences in her book ''I am a Witness''. In 1990, she returned to Buchach for the first time since the war, and the visit was captured in a CBC documentary called "Return to Buchach". The documentary won a gold medal at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1992.

External links

Foreword and Chapter 1 of "I am a Witness"
1913 births 1997 deaths Canadian memoirists Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Austrian Jews Jewish Canadian writers Polish emigrants to Canada People from Buchach Holocaust survivors Canadian women memoirists 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 20th-century memoirists {{Canada-writer-stub