Remembrance Day 2020: Ellin speaks to the NCJW Orah branch on Nov. 24, 2020
As the world marks Remembrance Day under COVID-19, author and journalist Ellin Bessner brings her book “Double Threat: Canadian Jews,…
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Hidden heroes: Canada’s Jewish men in uniform in WWII. Ellin speaks to the Brampton Flowertown Probus Club Dec. 2, 2020
Brampton Flowertown Probus Club Century Gardens Recreation Centre, 2nd Floor (340 Vodden St East), Brampton, Ontario, CanadaAs we mark 75 years since the end of the Second World War, Toronto author and journalist Ellin Bessner brings…
Take a “virtual tour” of Normandy’s WW2 graveyards + “meet” Canada’s Jewish soldiers buried there
https://youtu.be/Mhsgy6usWck Join Ellin LIVE on Friday January 29, 2021 at 9 a.m. Toronto time, when she is the special guest…
Ellin speaks to Canadian Na’amat groups about the role of Jewish women in winning WWll
ZOOM for the Calgary Naamat group sbsacks@shaw.ca, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaEllin Bessner will take you on a fascinating journey to meet the Canadian Jewish heroines, both at home and at the front, who helped Canada win WWII. Their contributions to history have never been properly recognized.
You will “meet” Bessner’s own great-aunt, Cpl. Daisy Lazare, who served in Ottawa, along with Sgt. Miriam Freedman, who went overseas with Normandy Landings in 1944, S/O Rose Goodman, who served in Claresholm, Alberta and Pt. Esther (Bubis) Thorley, serving in Vancouver, as well as the legions of Jewish women volunteers who raised funds, packed boxes, made sandwiches and even built the bombs.
Bessner is the author of “Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military and WWIl” (2019, University of Toronto Press) and a contributing author to "Northern Lights: A Canadian Jewish History" (2020, Lola Stein Institute).
How the Jewish Community in Ottawa helped Win the Second World War: Feb. 18, 2021 Ottawa Jewish Historical Society Lecture
ZoomFrom the 500 local Jewish men and women who served in a Canadian military uniform in the Second World War,…
Ellin speaks to the Probus Club of South Edmonton about the city’s Hidden Heroes: How the Jewish Community helped defeat Hitler in WW2
South Edmonton Probus via Zoom Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaAs Jews around the world prepare to observe the festival of Passover, Canadian author and journalist Ellin Bessner takes us…
Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
Judy Batalion's new book launch at Oakville Performing Arts Centre Ellin interviews Canadian author Judy Batalion about her new book…
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The Liberation of Holland and the end of WWll: Ellin speaks to the National Association of Federal Retirees, Peel/Halton branch
When the Canadian troops began cleaning out the remnants of Nazi Germany’s occupation forces across Holland in the spring and…
‘He wanted to save them all’: How Canadian soldiers liberated Europe + met the Holocaust Liberation75
Via ZoomFor 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.
Ellin speaks to Orillia’s Lake Country Probus on May 17 about the Liberation of Holland and the end of the Second World War
via Zoom Orillia, Ontario, CanadaAs Canada, and indeed the world, marked the Liberation of Holland and V-E Day in the spring of 1945, thousands…