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Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in progressive-run orphanages, where she gained a belief in peace and brotherhood. Adoption by a New York family led to a tumultuous youth haunted by domestic conflict, fear of nuclear war and anti-communist repression, consignment to a detention home and magical steps toward relinking with her origins in Europe.
At age seventeen, Suzanne became a lifelong social activist, engaged in student radicalization, the Cuban Revolution, and movements for Black Power, women’s liberation, peace in Vietnam and freedom for Palestine. Now nearing eighty, Suzanne tells how the ties of friendship, solidarity and resistance that saved her as a child speak to the needs of our planet today.
— Abigail B. Bakan, University of Toronto
“Holocaust to Resistance offers a very rich slice of social history, providing a down-to-earth, very personal narrative extending from the Second World War into the Age of Trump: the life-journey of a Holocaust survivor whose entire life became a resistance against the deep-seated structures of inhumanity.”
— Paul Le Blanc, La Roche College
“Suzanne Weiss exemplifies what it looks like to dedicate one’s life, post-Holocaust, to the mandate of ‘Never Again’ – for anyone. Her fascinating life story is sure to inspire many generations of activists.”
— Corey Balsam, National Coordinator, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
“Suzanne Weiss masterfully navigates the reader through the distinctive stages of her passionate journey through a life bursting with political commitment. The result is a rediscovery of the past that will fascinate and inspire.”
— Alan Wald, University of Michigan
“If Suzanne Weiss story is so deeply moving, it is because she is a living testimony of solidarity: the human solidarity of the French peasants who saved her, as a Jewish child, from the Nazi murderers in occupied France; and her own lifelong socialist commitment. “
— Michael Löwy, author of Franz Kafka, Subversive Dreamer
“Suzanne portrays the intersection of individuals and groups, of the psychological and the political. She speaks of things rarely addressed yet vitally important at this time that demands radical change.”
— Judith Deutsch, Psychoanalyst, Toronto
: In the Mountains of Auvergne
: Recovery from Fascism
: The Lady from America
: My New World
: Being Jewish in America
: Family in Crisis
: A Blind Date Brings a Miracle
: A Feud Causes Chaos
: On Strike for Justice
: A New Beginning
: Path to Independence
: Honeymoon in a Revolution
: Fair Play for Cuba
: A Wrenching Decision
: Engaging with Black Liberation
: Echoes of the War
: A Socialist Print Shop
: Assistant to Veteran Socialists
: Pioneering Women’s Rights
: Facing Up to Labour’s Retreat
: Poland, Nicaragua and Uncertainties
: The Buck Stops Here
: Restoring Family Ties
: Land of My Birth
: New Home in the North
: The Town My Mother Left Behind
: The Call of Global Solidarity
: Not in My Name
: How Was This Possible?
: Solidarity, Generosity and Love
: The Road Ahead
: Acknowledgments
: Sources
: Acronyms
: Index