Mouth of Truth ― Buried Secrets

Mouth of Truth is the unique story of a woman trapped in the vault of family secrets, part of her still a hidden child, some 40 years after the Second World War. Following a crisis, she leaves her home and children in search of the truth about her beloved father, a Jewish policeman in the Warsaw Ghetto. The story reveals how unhealed childhood trauma of a parent can be transmitted from one generation to the next, destroying families and other relationships in its wake.

Lillian Boraks-Nemetz was born in Warsaw, Poland, and is a child survivor of the Holocaust. She escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and spent the remainder of the war in hiding under a false identity. Boraks-Nemetz graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature. She is the author of the award winning novel Old Brown Suitcase as well as Sunflower Diary and Lenski File, and two volumes of poetry, Ghost Children and Garden of Steel. Boraks-Nemetz is a creative writing instructor at the University of British Columbia's Writing Center and often speaks to students about the consequences of racism, as a member of the Holocaust Center's Outreach Program. She is a board member of the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada. She lives and works in Vancouver, B.C.