{"id":5285,"date":"2014-03-03T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=5285"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:28:46","slug":"j-l-witterick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/j-l-witterick\/","title":{"rendered":"J. L. Witterick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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J.L. (Jenny) Witterick was born in Taiwan and has lived in Canada since 1968.\u00a0 She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business and is a certified financial analyst.\u00a0 Witterick lives in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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My Mother’s Secret<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2013.
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Inspired by a true story, My Mother\u2019s Secret<\/em> is a profound, captivating, and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who team up to save them. Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who mind their own business and don\u2019t stand out from the crowd \u2026 until 1939, when crisis strikes. The Nazis invade Poland and start to persecute the Jews. Providing shelter to Jews has become a death sentence, and yet Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny two-room house in Sokal, they cleverly hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen floorboards, and a defecting German soldier in the attic\u2014each party completely unknown to the others. For everyone to survive, Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German commander.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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J.L. (Jenny) Witterick was born in Taiwan and has lived in Canada since 1968.\u00a0 She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business and is a certified financial analyst.\u00a0 Witterick lives in Toronto, Ontario. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18627,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5285\/revisions\/18627"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}