Ellin speaks to the National Council of Jewish Women Chai Branch
Ahead of Jan. 27 the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ellin speaks to the NCJW Chai Branch in Toronto about the…
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Ellin speaks to the Probus Club of Pickering (via ZOOM)
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, journalist and author Ellin Bessner will bring the story of the Canadian…
Remembering Pvt. Murray Bleeman of the Drildzer Society on the 80th Anniversary of the Dieppe Raid
This summer, the world recently commemorated the 80th anniversary of the disastrous Second World War Allied raid on German-occupied Dieppe,…
Remembering Canada’s Hidden Heroines: the Jewish women who served in the Second World War
Journalist and author Ellin Bessner visits the CFUW Leaside-East York chapter and brings the unknown story of the Canadian women…
Ellin hosts Holocaust Education Week: a conversation with Dori Ekstein about finding her family’s rescuers in Ukraine
Leah Posluns Theatre 4588 Bathurst Street, Toronto, CanadaIt took a war in Ukraine for Dori Ekstein of Toronto to finally find the family that saved her grandparents’…
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Conversation with Deborah Levison about the Holocaust, evil, trauma and resiliency
Leah Posluns Hall- Schwartz Reisman Centre 9600 Bathurst Street, Vaughan, OntarioCanadian writer Deborah Levison grew up in Toronto as the daughter of Holocaust survivors who had made new lives in…
$25 – $150
Ellin speaks for Remembrance Day 2022 to the Probus Club of Port Perry
14480 Old Simcoe Road 14480 Old Simcoe Road, Port Perry, Ontario, CanadaAs the world prepares to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and the 77th anniversary of the…
The Canadians who Liberated Nazi Death Camps in WWII
"They Wanted to Save Them All": As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, Ellin makes a…
The untold story of how Canada’s wartime Jewish community helped win the Second World War
Nottawasaga Inn. 6015 ON-89, Alliston, Ontario, CanadaAs the world prepares to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 17, Canadian author and journalist Ellin Bessner says it…
Guelph’s Synagogue Beth Isaiah remembers Sgt. Harry Bockner on the 78th anniversary of his death in action in WWll
When the Canadian troops began cleaning out the remnants of Nazi Germany’s occupation forces across Holland in the spring and…