Frederick Lowy was born in Austria in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler became chancellor. He escaped the Holocaust with his immediate family, and at age ten, he was sent across the Atlantic aboard the SS Serpa Pinto with his seven-year-old sister. Lowy was a child refugee until he and his sister reunited with their parents in Montreal after over a year apart. In this inspiring story, Lowy tells how he created an extraordinary life of leadership as head of psychiatry at University of Toronto, the first Jewish doctor to become UT' s dean of medicine, and finally, as President of Concordia University in Montreal. How? It was " the strong and unfailingly loving support of my parents and sister. I did not need my later studies in medicine, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis to teach me the crucial importance of attachments and social supports in human development- I lived it."
