From the Uxbridge Cosmos to CBC News Network, Ellin was interviewed about her trip to Normandy and England during the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. And she wrote stories of her own about her D-Day experiences.
![Ted Barris and Ellin Bessner](https://i0.wp.com/ellinbessner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/58151429225__7911D753-0F83-4DEE-BD5E-FA951957F149.jpg?resize=688%2C516&ssl=1)
Ted Barris wrote about my mission to say memorial prayers at as many of the graves of the 70+ Canadian Jewish casualties of D-Day as possible during our tour.
![Jewish military grave](https://i0.wp.com/ellinbessner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_1432.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1)
CBC coverage
The CBC News Network also interviewed me from Normandy on June 6 about the role of Canada’s Jewish soldiers in WWII, or at least, they sure tried to interview me! I was on a moving tour bus, and the wifi was initially fine, but we went into a dead zone, sadly, and the interview had to be called off after just a moment or two.
![CBC News tv interview](https://i0.wp.com/ellinbessner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-20-at-7.59.38-AM.png?resize=468%2C328&ssl=1)
We also did an interview with CBC Radio’s Fresh Air host Nana aba Duncan on Saturday June 8 from on board a convoy of military vehicles careening through the Normandy countryside. I was in one military truck, while Canadian Jewish WWll hero, Dr. Bill Novick, was in a jeep somewhere at the head of the convoy on a different cellphone. Listen below:
Canadian Jewish News
A feature story that I wrote was published this week in the Canadian Jewish News. As they only used one photo, here is a bonus photo of Dr. Novick with his grandsons Jason, 30, and Daniel, 27 in Courseulles-sur-Mer, near the Juno Beach landing area.
![grandfather and two grandsons](https://i0.wp.com/ellinbessner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_3924.jpg?resize=688%2C459&ssl=1)