For Liberation75, Ellin will share stories of how Canada's fighting men in uniform acted with great compassion on their sacred mission as liberators of Europe, and their efforts in the face of the horrors of the Final Solution. With the participation of Bob Delson, son of an RCAF photographer at Bergen-Belsen, and the children of Jack Marcovitch, and others.
As Canada, and indeed the world, marked the Liberation of Holland and V-E Day in the spring of 1945, thousands…
When the Canadian troops began cleaning out the remnants of Nazi Germany's occupation forces across Holland in the spring and…
Hidden Heroes: Canadian Jewish Airmen in WWll Join journalist Ellin Bessner via ZOOM on Thursday June 10, 2021 as she…
Private speech to the monthly board meeting about "Double Threat: Canadian Jews who served in WWII" and being host of…
Just ahead of Remembrance Day, join Canadian author and journalist Ellin Bessner on October 26, 2021 for a “Zoom” talk…
For Remembrance Week 2021, Ellin brings the story of Canada's 17,000 Jewish fighters to the Leaside Speakers Series. A presentation…
As the world commemorates the 76th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and Holocaust Education Week, Canadian…
Via Zoom. Just ahead of Remembrance Day 2021, and the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Canadian author and journalist Ellin Bessner…
VIA ZOOM. For the tiny wartime Jewish community of Canada, the Second World War was what the prime minister of…
