Chance Alone News Today

Wordsfest, a Literary and creative arts festival, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in London this November featuring Western professors.

Listen to this celebration of CBC's battle of the books! The 2023 edition of the great Canadian book debate takes place March 27-30.

From the blog of Alan Simons at The Times of Israel

Eisen was a Toronto-based author, public speaker and an Order of Canada recipient. In the Canada Reads-winning memoir By Chance Alone, Eisen recounted how he escaped death in the Auschwitz gas chambers during the Holocaust.

Max Eisen is one of the participants in a project that will let future generations engage in real-time conversations with Holocaust survivors, even after their deaths. Producer Shari Finkelstein writes about meeting Eisen and watching him tell his story.

Article content The story of one man’s account as a Holocaust survivor has been selected for the County of Brant Public Library’s 16th annual One Book One Brant. Author Max Eisen’s memoir, By Chance Alone, describes growing up in Czechoslovakia when Adolf Hitler announced that the Nazis were “going to eradicate Jews from the face of Europe.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Holocaust survivors memoir chosen for One Book One Brant Back to v...