B.C. Holocaust survivor shares stories of harrowing history — and hope — in 2023 memoir

The Nazis may have stripped Holocaust survivor Marie Doduck of her childhood, but they could never take her stories.

Doduck was five when soldiers invaded her hometown of Brussels, Belgium in 1940 and she was forced into hiding for years, until the war ended and she was sent to Canada to start a new life.

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.

May is Jewish Heritage Month in Canada and to mark the occasion, Doduck, who now resides in Vancouver, B.C., spoke with The Early Edition host Stephen Quinn about

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