After World War II, JACK KUPER escaped Poland and immigrated to Canada at the age of fifteen. He spent much of his career in advertising, producing and directing award-winning TV commercials. As a filmmaker he wrote and directed several shorts. His film RUN! was honoured at the Venice Film Festival. He is also the author of After the Smoke Cleared, the sequel to his bestselling memoir Child of the Holocaust. He lives in Toronto with his wife, and speaks often to groups about his experiences during the Holocaust.
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Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest. Jankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in ru... SEE MORE