Chava Rosenfarb was one of the great Yiddish writers of the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1923 in the Polish city of Lodz, she began writing poetry in the ghetto. After barely surviving Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, she was homeless and stateless for several years before finally immigrating to Canada. She was married to the abortion rights activist and physician Heniek (Henry) Morgentaler, who was a Holocaust survivor himself.  Her prize-winning trilogy Tree of Life, based on her personal experience, is one of the few works about the Holocaust to be written by an actual survivor. Rosenfarb's life and writing will be introduced by her daughter Goldie Morgentaler, a literature professor at the University of Lethbridge and the translator of her mother's works into English. The talk is preceded by a free screening of the film Chava Rosenfarb: That Bubble of Being (2015, Yiddish with English subtitles).