S u m a c h a u t h o r s
Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda
Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda was nine years old when the Second World War started. She was the only child of a quite well-to-do family in a small town 30 km from Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Her family lived in a small house together with her cousin and her aunt and uncle. The two girls were like sisters. The family was Jewish, and, recognizing from the beginning the dangers of the German occupation, she and her parents fled Poland early on. During this flight Ilona went through many difficulties, which she describes in her memoir.
After the war Ilona continued studying while raising her family, and obtained a PhD in chemistry. In 1969 the whole family came to Canada where Ilona became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières. Since her retirement in 1992, she has been working with the Polish Jewish Heritage Foundation to publish Holocaust survivors' memoirs. When Grownups Play at War is her first memoir, and was published in three languages: Polish, French and English.
When Grownups Play at War
Categories
· Young Adult
· Non-Fiction
· Jewish Studies
· History
· Biography
Ages 12+
160 pages
5¼" x 8½"
$10.95 paper
ISBN: 978-1-894549-43-1
