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Dora Posluns (née Shumska) was born in Berdychiv, a predominantly Jewish city in Ukraine. She was in her teens when World War II began. She and her family fled across Russia and ended up in Uzbekistan in a primitive poverty-stricken area, where they remained for the rest of the war. Her father, however, died of starvation.

Dora later married Wolf Posluns (originally Poslaniec), a Warsaw Jew who had entered Russia with the Polish Armed Forces. Because of her marriage, she and her mother were able to leave Russia for Poland. There, she gave birth to two children. The family later immigrated to Israel, where Dora first began to write poetry. They finally settled in Canada in March 1953.

Residing in Toronto, Ontario, Dora went on to volunteer with numerous organizations. She is, however, most famous for her performances, in which she sang, read her poetry, and generally made her audiences (as large as 200 people) laugh, cry, and feel good. Particularly moving were her annual commemorations of the Holocaust performed at geriatric care centre Baycrest and Baycrest’s Joseph E. and Minnie Wagman Centre. She has three children and four grandchildren.