About this Event
Trinity United Newmarket Presents
Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
and Walking with Oma: A Memoir
Grace Feuerverger and Angie Littlefield will discuss their recent second generation Holocaust memoirs. Uplifting and inspirational, they offer a testament to the human capacity for renewal, resilience, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
Books will be available at the presentation venue.
Grace Feuerverger was born and raised in her beloved city of Montréal
surrounded by a multitude of languages and cultures. She is professor emerita
of education and ethnography at the University of Toronto. She had also
served on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Her previous award-
winning books are Oasis of Dreams (about a cooperative Jewish-Palestinian
village in Israel) and Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (about education
as a sacred life journey). Her new book is Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child
of Holocaust Survivors.
Angie Littlefield is an art historian and President of the Toronto Heliconian
Club. She is the author of Tom Thomson’s Fine Kettle of Friends which was
shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Award (2021), “Provenance:
The History of Ownership” (Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2022), and Painted out of
the Picture: The Wives of the Group of Seven (Cormorant Books, 2027). Angie’s
book The Art of Dissent was featured in a Lonsdale Gallery exhibition.
Date: Sunday November 2, 2025
Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Address: 461 Park Avenue, Newmarket, ON
www.trinityuc.ca
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
461 Park Ave, 461 Park Avenue, Newmarket, Canada
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