I was interviewed by their history correspondent, Mark Bridges, about my work to help correct the mistake on the war grave of Morley Ornstein, the young Jewish Toronto navigator.
Skip to 21:00 minutes into his show, and you will hear my conversation about why Canada’s Jewish soldiers should be…
Special thanks to the amazing reporter Global News’ Abigail Bimman, for the touching portrayal of our efforts to put a…
Morley Ornstein’s name is one of the 52 engraved on the Harbord Collegiate Second World War Memorial sculpture, honouring the boys from the downtown Toronto high school who were killed serving in the Second World War.
With close to 85 per cent of Harbord’s student body in those years belonging to the Jewish faith, it is not surprising that many of the names — including Ornstein’s — on the stainless steel memorial sculpture at the corner of Harbord Street and Euclid Avenue are Jewish.
Decorated Montreal athlete told Boston Bruins ‘No’; went to fight Hitler, save Jews The Second World War story of Sgt.…
My article on Harry Campbell, from Montreal, was printed Nov. 7, 2020 in the Vancouver Sun newspaper ahead of Remembrance Day. My thanks go out to the Campbell family in Kaslo, Calgary, and Montreal, plus the B.C. Regiment, and to author and historian David O’Keefe, the author of “Seven Days in Hell” about the Black Watch at Verrieres Ridge in 1944. Read the story here:
William Henry Nelson was a Canadian Jewish pilot from Montreal who joined the RAF directly in 1937 and served until he was shot down in November 1940. Nelson was recognized as the highest scoring Canadian Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain.
The Canadian Jewish Record news site has reprinted my story on this heartfelt ceremony in honour of an outstanding Montreal…
Honoured to be included in this prestigious military publication out of Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Their April 2020…
One of the most knowledgable interviewers I have had the pleasure of meeting: Lynn Pickering, host of her 99.3 The County radio programme. Interview was done Monday Feb. 17, 2020 in the green room of the station, and aired on the weekend Sunday Feb. 23, 2020 following my talk in Picton, Ontario as part of Flashback February 2020.