A Cry in Unison by Judy Weissenberg Cohen - Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Collection

The author reflects on her old age, her last years, and what she has lived through and seen, and offers a wish for endless hate to end.

Judy’s family faces health challenges as Sidney is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

As a public speaker, Judy becomes interested in the discussion around gender in the Holocaust.

Judy becomes an activist and public speaker at the Toronto Holocaust Centre, as well as the co-chair of the speakers’ bureau.

Judy meets SidneyJessel Cohen, and they are married on June 9, 1961. They move to Toronto to start their family and life together.

Judy and her sister arrive by ship to Halifax, on June 11, 1948, before they board a train to Montreal. The author describes the post-war anti-communist sentiment, assimilating to Canadian fashions, and traveling around Canada.

Judy returns to Germany and is reunited with her sister who shares her experiences of the war. They are accepted by the Canadian government to come and live and work in Canada.

Judy travels back to Hungary in the summer of 1945. It is an arduous journey, and upon arriving at home and being reunited with cousins, they are faced with the effects of the war on their home.

Soon after Germany’s capitulation, the area they are in becomes designated as a Soviet zone and soon Soviet soldiers begin arriving. Now with the war over, they are free to move, but where to go?