Investor so moved by a documentary on the Holocaust that she wrote her first book on the subject

After reading Anne Frank’s diary, watch the movie “Schindler’s list“And by watching various documentaries about the Holocaust, I visited the Holocaust Museum in Farmington Hills, MI, and I was deeply moved by how the Holocaust not only impacted the Jewish people, but also greatly affected the entire world.

I suspect that my visit to the museum may have had the same effect on me as when author JL Witterick saw a documentary on the Holocaust. The documentary (“Our Lady’s 4th Street” 2009) that Witterick saw was about Franciszka Halamaj and her daughter’s heroic efforts to provide a safe haven for Jewish individuals and families, an act that carries the death penalty. . It was so moving that Witterick wrote his inspiring novel about the Holocaust “,My mother’s secret“.

This exciting novel tells the story of how Franciszka and her daughter hid Jewish families and a German soldier in their little house. His secret to survival is revealed, in part, by his belief that the best way to survive in his world was to be insignificant. Survival also required them to be cunning, such as mixing the droppings of the people he was hiding with the waste of the pigs and then removing it with a shovel. And certainly Franciszka had to think ahead. The daughter said of Franciszka that her mother did not play chess, but that if she did it would be “many moves ahead.”

Witterick is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who came to Canada with $ 200 in 1968 when she was seven years old. At the time, the family was so poor but so committed to education that they regularly bought used Salvation Army books for 5 and 10 cents for Jenny to read.

Witterick is not the usual author, as she is the president of Sky Investment Counsel, one of Canada’s largest international money managers. Known as JL Witterick among the authors, she is more commonly known as Jenny Witterick in the investment community.

Jenny was president of the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts in 1995/1996. Jenny, who was nominated for the Rhodes Scholar, has a BA from the University of Western Ontario. He is also a CFA Charter Holder.

I read an early copy of “My Mother’s Secret,” but the author plans to release her first novel for publication during the national observance of Holocaust Week in April 2013.

Anyone who enjoyed “Anne Frank’s dairy” gold “Schindler’s list“You will surely enjoy reading too”My mother’s secret. “This book offers not only a good story, but also a gripping drama.