Two Roses

Miriam Libicki, Rose Lipszyc

ISBN 10: 1487559194 / ISBN 13: 9781487559199

Published by University of Toronto Press, CA, 2026

About this Item

In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rózia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland. Alone and terrified, she flees to a neighbor's house and is reunited with her aunt, Róza Finkielsztajn. With the help of friends and strangers, the two Roses adopt false identities and disguise themselves as Polish gentile sisters. Against all odds, they survive the war in a forced-labor camp in Nazi Germany. A collaboration between award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Libicki and Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, this book illuminates a crucial part of our shared history with care, honesty, and creativity.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Roses
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, CA
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487559194
• ISBN 13: 9781487559199
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: Libicki, Miriam
• Condition: New
• Weight: 630 grams

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Synopsis

In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rózia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland. Alone and terrified, she flees to a neighbor’s house and is reunited with her aunt, Róza Finkielsztajn. With the help of friends and strangers, the two Roses adopt false identities and disguise themselves as Polish gentile sisters. Against all odds, they survive the war in a forced-labor camp in Nazi Germany.

A collaboration between award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Libicki and Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, this book illuminates a crucial part of our shared history with care, honesty, and creativity.

About the Author

Graphic novelist Miriam Libicki is a sessional instructor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. A recipient of the career achievement Inkpot at San Diego Comic-Con, Libicki has published widely and received many awards for her comic arts work. Holocaust educator and survivor Rose Lipszyc was awarded the Order of Canada in 2021. Lipszyc still meets with Canadian and Polish youth to recount her wartime fate as a witness to history. Award-winning author Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Executive Director of the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Charlotte Schallié is a professor of Germanic Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interests include memory studies, visual culture studies, genocide education, care ethics, and more. She also edited the award-winning collection of graphic novels But I Live. Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.