This book, Fitting into Toronto – Part II of Our Family Holocaust Chronicle , is about the complex downstream aftermath of the Holocaust for my immediate family, the Friedmans. The impact of the Holocaust experience on my parents was direct and most obvious in their behaviours to each other and to us, their difficulties in integration, as well as the challenges they faced in being accepted by others. The repercussions for their offspring, my brother and me, were inextricably bound up to these as well as our family narrative of war events, both what we were told and what we were not. This along with our own personalities and propensities in turn had a major influence on our own interactions with our environment and the feedback we received from it. All of this came together to give what I call the long-term effects of the Holocaust on our family’s efforts at fitting into Toronto and probably on what we have passed on to our own children.