Richmond Hill resident and author/journalist Ellin Bessner brings the untold stories of the 17,000 Canadians of Jewish Faith who served in the Second World War. They faced a "double threat" as Mackenzie King told them: not only were they fighting for King and Country, but also for the survival of the Jewish People in the face of Hitler's Final Solution. And they themselves faced great personal danger, should they be captured by the Nazis, and their own Jewish identity be…

During the Second World War, the head of Canadian Jewish Congress, Samuel Bronfman, set up a War Efforts Committee which oversaw efforts by the country's small Jewish minority to throw itself wholeheartedly into the war effort. The aim was to defeat Hitler, and rescue the Jews of Europe. But also, to show loyalty to Canada. Not only was Bronfman an industrialist, and head of Seagram's distillers, but he was also a Mason. Under Bronfman's leadership, more than 17,000 Canadian Jewish…

Ellin will join the Jewish community of Cape Breton and the wider local community in observing the annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day. Event begins at 2 p.m. at the Temple Sons of Israel Synagogue. "He wanted to save them all": The untold story of how Canada's Jewish soldiers helped defeat Hitler in WWII and rescue the survivors of the Holocaust. Ellin Bessner will bring the story of "Double Threat" to Sydney for Yom HaShoah 2019. Her new book is about the…

"A Score to Settle with Hitler": How Canada's 17,000 Jewish fighters helped win WWII, defeat Hitler, and rescue the survivors of the Holocaust When most people think about Jews and the Second World War, they think about the victims of the Holocaust. But now a new book by Canadian journalist Ellin Bessner tells the untold story of how and why more than 17,000 Canadian Jews put on a uniform and served in the war, as the liberators. And how Canada's…

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