Rose Lipszyc was born Roza Handelsman in May, 1929 in the Old Jewish District of the city of Lublin, Poland. After being dispossessed of their home with the advent of war, her two brothers, mother and father fled to the countryside and were ultimately deported from the Belzyce marketplace in October, 1942. From there, her father was carted off to Majdanek while Rose, her mother and siblings were forced on a death march to the trains which would lead to Sobibor. Upon the urging of her mother, Rose fled imminent death and was aided by a Polish farmer, Stanislaw, and his wife, Maria, the Jablonskis, with whom the family were connected. Along with her maternal aunt, Rose Finkelstein, Rose assumed the alias of a Jablonski daughter and survived the war as a Polish Catholic forced labourer in a rope factory in Bremen, Germany, the youngest of workers gathered from nations across occupied Europe. Rose later married Jakob Lipszyc in Israel, 1949 and settled in Toronto in 1952, raising a family of three children. She has been blessed with five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A self-taught bookkeeper, Rose became a tireless Holocaust educator of adolescents, and for her inspiring testimony and dialogue with the young, she has been awarded the Order of Canada in December 2021. Her narrative and history are being told by her daughter, Carol Lipszyc. A retired professor of SUNY Plattsburgh’s English Department, Carol Lipszyc’s book of short stories on children and adolescents in the Holocaust, The Saviour Shoes and Other Stories, was published by Inanna in 2014. The collection includes reconstructed narratives of her father and mother’s experiences during the Shoah. Carol earned her Doctorate of Education at the University of Toronto, OISE and is currently a presenter for Carrying Holocaust Testimony from Generation to Generation in partnership and shares this history of her mother, Rose Lipszyc.