Lillian’s Mouth of Truth is featured in the Literary Representations of the Holocaust blog, which contains student research from the UBC course on German Representations of the Holocaust (GERM 426) in German literature and film taught by Dr. Uma Kumar in the CENES Department at the University of British Columbia.
“With the 76th anniversary of the end of WWII nearing, May 8th poses as a reminder that although the Holocaust seems like something left in the past, we must continue to learn lessons from it and hear from those who survived. Dr. Lillian Boraks-Nemetz is an author, an academic, a mother, sister, daughter and a child survivor of the Holocaust. In her fiction novel, The Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets, she tells a beautiful, yet painful story of the memories she had to revisit to unravel the truths about her life as a child survivor of the Warsaw ghetto,” writes Mona Nimmervoll.
The blog description states:
As part of an assignment on “The Significance of Artefacts in the Understanding of the Holocaust” students wrote articles to see how artefacts bear witness to the Holocaust. (Academic year 2019-2020)
During the academic year 2020/21 students wrote a Research Paper on Survivors of the Holocaust @UBC – Life & Work. The objective was to compile the life and works of these survivors who are associated with UBC.