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Not every student is a reader.

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Not every student is going to read an entire book.

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And so the audiobook project allows students

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who aren't readers to find another way

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to learn from a memoir.

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They listen to the voices

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of the survivors who recorded them.

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It's an incredible project.

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Ours are the first audiobooks in history

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that were written by Holocaust survivors

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and narrated by the Holocaust survivor themselves.

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The most dramatic event in my life happened in the summer

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of 1944.

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I was sixteen years old

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and I was facing my death. In wartime,

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death can occur at anytime.

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The reception has been amazing.

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People love it.

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It's beautiful, it's powerful,

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and the survivors love doing it.

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They really found revisiting their words, sometimes years

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after writing them, to be not only powerful, but humorous

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or emotional.

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And so the audiobooks begun as a project for our survivors

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to give them that opportunity

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to capture their voices while we still could,

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but it became a project that allowed, um,

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a diverse variety

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of learners in Canadian classrooms in French

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and English, to connect with the voices

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of Holocaust survivors at the level

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where they're at in terms of literacy and reading.