As we mark 75 years since the end of the Second World War, Toronto author and journalist Ellin Bessner brings…
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 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).
From the 500 local Jewish men and women who served in a Canadian military uniform in the Second World War,…
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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…
