Suzanne Berliner Weiss offers a page-turning narrative about her remarkable life of survival, resistance and solidarity. Hidden as a Jewish child from the Nazi regime in Vichy France, Suzanne shares her childhood journey from fascism in Europe to adoption in Cold War USA.
Consistently standing with the oppressed – from Cuba to Vietnam to Palestine, from women’s liberation to Black power to environmental justice – Suzanne returns decades later to the town that protected her as a child. For everyone who wants to change the world, please, read this book.
– Abigail B. Bakan, Professor of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto.
Holocaust to Resistance offers a very rich slice of social history, providing a down-to-earth, very personal narrative extending from the Second World War into the Age of Trump: the life-journey of a Holocaust survivor whose entire life became a resistance against the deep-seated structures of inhumanity.
– Paul Le Blanc, Professor of History, La Roche College, Pittsburgh.
Suzanne Weiss exemplifies what it looks like to dedicate one’s life, post-Holocaust, to the mandate of “Never Again” — for anyone. Her fascinating life story is sure to inspire many generations of activists.
– Corey Balsam, National Coordinator, Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
In a story-line deftly threaded together, Suzanne Weiss masterfully navigates the reader through the distinctive stages of her passionate journey through a life bursting with political commitment. The result is a rediscovery of the past that will fascinate and inspire.
– Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan.
If Suzanne Weiss story is so deeply moving, it is because she is a living testimony of solidarity: the human solidarity of the French peasants who saved her, as a Jewish child, from the Nazi murderers in occupied France; and her own lifelong socialist commitment.
– Michael Löwy, author of “Franz Kafka, Subversive Dreamer.“
Suzanne Weiss feels deeply and notices everything. Tolerant, and empathetic, she is persistently committed to doing good and being helpful, through a long and challenging life.
Suzanne portrays the intersection of individuals and groups, of the psychological and the political. She speaks of things rarely addressed yet vitally important at this time that demands radical change.
– Judith Deutsch, Psychoanalyst, Toronto
I highly recommend reading Suzanne Weiss’s inspiring and moving memoir, Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey, a memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss. I read it the same weekend of Suzanne’s book launch, and couldn’t put it down. Even those of you who know Suzanne, a long-time leader in Toronto’s solidarity movements, will be amazed by just how many struggles Suzanne has been a part of during her more than 60 years of political activism. More importantly, you will discover how her experience of the Holocaust, and of the solidarity that saved her life, inspired her to commit her life to fighting against injustice and oppression wherever she sees it. From the horrors of the Holocaust comes this remarkable journey of love and solidarity. Thank you, Suzanne!
– James Clark, Socialist activist socialist, trade unionist, and anti-war activist based in Toronto
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