In her 2023 memoir, A Childhood Unspoken, Doduck recounts how she survived the atrocities in Europe before finding a home — and new hardship — as an orphan in a foreign, and sometimes unfriendly, country.
Posted: May 22, 2023 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours agoThe Nazis may have stripped Holocaust survivor Marie Doduck of her childhood, but they could never take her stories.
You arrived in Vancouver after the Second World War. What can you tell us about why you came here and who you came with? I got off the ship, The Aquitania, in Halifax and we were not really welcomed because we were strange. We were from war-torn Europe and we were children in bodies, but adults in mind. I'm the youngest of 11 and arrived with three of my siblings.-Marie Doduck, Holocaust survivor who came to Canada after the war at age 12We were destined for Montreal and they put us on a train that stopped there and said this will be your home.
From age five to 10 and then it took two years to get accepted to Canada so I lived in orphanages. I was also used in the French Resistance because I have a photographic memory.Your memoir is called. Tell me more about the unspoken parts of your childhood and why you felt like you couldn't speak for so long.
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