The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger: Revised Edition

By Carolyn Gammon and Israel Unger

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Dean Unger

Carolyn Gammon and Israel Unger

Dean Unger

- Israel’s academic and non-academic illustrious career. He becomes present of the Canadian Association of University Teachers; he becomes Dean of Science for three terms.

Struggles with Charlie

- Charlie is also struck with ALS and has a long and difficult decline. Israel does all he can to help his brother. 

My Mother and her Backbone of Steel

- Israel’s mother shows incredible strength caring for Charlie until his death after which her own health deteriorates rapidly. She is also buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Marlene

- Marlene Unger receives the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies for her incredible story of fighting the New Brunswick teacher and Holocaust denier, Malcom Ross and any other type of anti-Semitism that still rears its head.

Making up for Lost Time

- Israel “makes up for lost time” in his childhood by learning every possible sport and activity: cross-country skiing, scuba diving, kayaking, flying, etc. The Ungers build a cottage and travel south with a motorhome.

The Airplane Accident

- Israel is the pilot when the faulty plane he is flying crashes into the woods!

Telling my Story

- Israel’s family in Montreal never talked about the Holocaust and so he had not recounted his story in decades when first asked to do so by a New Brunswick school, thus starting his new career of Holocaust educationalist in the late 1970s.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Release date: Jul 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781771120128

Carolyn Gammon

Carolyn Gammon has been widely anthologized across Canada, the United States and Europe, and she is the author of Lesbians Ignited (Gynergy/Ragweed, 1992), Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted: Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007) and The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger (WLU Press, 2014). She was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Her parents, Frances (Firth) Gammon and Donald Gammon co-founded the Fiddlehead magazine at the University of New Brunswick. Carolyn Gammon lives in Berlin, Germany.