Lillian Boraks-Nemetz was born in Warsaw, Poland, where she survived the Holocaust as a child, escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and lived in Polish villages under a false identity.^[1] She has a master's degree in Comparative Literature and teaches Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia's Writing Centre.^[2] She is the author of numerous books,^[3] including Ghost Children, a collection of poetry, and The Old Brown Suitcase, a young adult novel.^[4]

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