![]() ![]() “But that night, Oma shares her story of Holocaust survival, the brass monkey charm that she was given in the camp, and a message of kindness and perseverance in the face of disaster.Īs Monique describes it, o n May 24, 1943, her mother was sitting on a stoop crying when someone tapped her on the shoulder. “People have survived worse,” says her mother ― Oma survived World War II, and never speaks of it. The story revolves around Tali, who is staying at her Oma’s (grandmother) apartment after a storm demolishes their house. Over the next few months Monique will be making other school visits. ![]() In it she tells the story of a gift from a perfect stranger that her mother (the late Celien Spier) received on her 14th birthday while a prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia called Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. This marks her first picture book for children. As part of Holocaust Education Month, author Monique Polak visited two elementary schools – Our Lady of Pompei in Ahuntsic and Westmount Park to read from The Brass Charm. ![]()
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