Mina Rosner was a native of Buchach

Buchach

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, Ukraine

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, who survived The Holocaust

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 by hiding with a Polish family. After the war, she moved to Winnipeg

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, Canada

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, with her husband, Michael Rosner. She recorded her war-time experiences in her book I am a Witness. In 1990, she returned to Buchach for the first time since the war, and the visit was captured in a CBC

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documentary called "Return to Buchach". The documentary won a gold medal at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1992.

External links

• Foreword and Chapter 1 of "I am a Witness"