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Scarred by History - 4 Square Productions
Episode 3 - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost, a story of the Holocaust shot in Canada and Hungary, is based on the book Journey to Vaja by Elaine Kalman Naves. The viewer follows the triumphs and tragedies of one Jewish family in Hungary over the course of a century and a half.

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Elaine, with co-editor, Bryan Demchinsky, at the launch of Joel Yanofsky’s posthumous memoir, How to Move on. (Véhicule Press, 2025.) Pictured on the far right is Yanofsky’s widow, Cynthia Davis. Photo by Jennifer Varkonyi

How To Move On: An Unfinished Memoir of Loss, Love, and Surviving Your Family

Elaine and Bryan fulfilled a deathbed promise to Joel to complete his memoir of love and loss.

Read the full article in The Gazette

Read the book review by David Staines in the Literary Review of Canada

Read the book review by Stuart Nuland in the Montreal Times