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Lillian Appears in New Book by Allan Twigg

Lillian is featured in Allan Twigg’s new book, Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia, which the Vancouver Sun calls “a celebration of 85 authors/survivors who have written about their harrowing and inspiring stories.” As The Georgia Straight writes, Twigg “he worries that the world is gradually forgetting about this uniquely obscene event with …

Lillian to Speak at Black Excellence Day

Tomorrow morning (January 14th) at 10:00am PST, the Ninandotoo Society will be livestreaming a virtual program for Black Excellence Day, in partnership with the Burnaby School District. More than 10,000 people from school communities throughout BC are coming together virtually for the first-ever Black Excellence Day, and the VHEC’s very own Lillian Boraks-Nemetz will be …

Lillian and Mouth of Truth in UBC Literature Course

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 …

BC Poets on the Writers They Love

Rob Taylor Read Local BC asked eight British Columbia poets to share with readers the writers they like to read.  Lillian chose Joy Kogawa. I have always admired Joy Kogawa’s work, especially her novel Obasan and her poetry. Obasan inspired me to write about my childhood: the little girl in Obasan is incarcerated in a camp for Japanese Canadians during WWII, …

Praise for Out of the Dark

“Part I is stark and arresting. Few poets could write it today. He really liked ‘The Jew’ and ‘Tsunami’ but hates to single out poems at random like this since the collection is a whole and not merely an assembly of parts. “Part II is a thoughtful and a pensive squence. ‘Shops on Ben Yehuda’ …

More Praise for Mouth of Truth

Wow. I am still so full of this story… I was immediately drawn into Batya’s life, with all her pain and the understanding that she has been hiding her true self and has reached a point that she cannot continue this way if she is to survive, as much as her loved ones wish this. …