The author and host of TVO’s The Agenda, Steve Paikin discusses the book he co-wrote, I Am a Victor: The Mordechai Ronen Story (Dundurn, 2015), lessons from Mr. Ronen’s life, the Holocaust, remembering, as well as Frank Sinatra; with Joseph Planta.

I Am a Victor: The Mordechai Ronen Story by Mordechai Ronen with Steve Paikin (Dundurn, 2015). Click to buy this book: www.iamavictor.ca

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

In 1932, Mordechai Ronen was born in a town in Hungary. By the time he was eleven years old, all hell breaks loose and soon he and his family are shipped to a Nazi death camp. He writes his story in a new book, I Am a Victor: The Mordechai Ronen Story. Steve Paikin, Mr. Ronen’s co-author joins me now, to talk about this compelling, moving, necessary book. Mr. Ronen’s experience in a concentration camp is chronicled in this book, and it must be remembered. I’ll get Steve to tell us about Mr. Ronen’s life, liberation, and subsequent life in Israel, before moving to Canada. And we’ll reflect too on the lessons from Mr. Ronen’s life, especially from the journey back. Steve had gone with Mordechai Ronen when he returned to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the 1990s and earlier this year, when this past January they marked the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. Steve Paikin is the anchor of the TVO’s nightly current affairs program, The Agenda. He is also the chancellor of Laurentian University, and has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, and invested a member of the Order of Ontario. The book is published by Dundurn. Visit www.iamavictor.ca where you can buy the book. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program in Toronto today, Steve Paikin; Mr. Paikin, good morning.

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