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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Hidden for 1,000 days: How 8 members of this Canadian family survived the Holocaust
Description: It's highly unusual that eight family members would not only survive the Holocaust, but all end up living in Canada after the war. Yet that's what happened to the Veffers. The Dutch family withstood appendicitis, scurvy and Nazi raids while hiding for nearly three years, only to wind up moving to Canada after the only Veffer daughter married a Canadian Jewish soldier, who helped the whole family come to Toronto.
Now, 60 years later, the Veffers' story is being commemorated in a new children's book by a Jewish author and filmmaker who lives in Bussum, the Dutch town...