A Toronto artist’s year-long quest to learn the identity of the gregarious Jewish war veteran whose portrait she’d painted last year, brought her and the canvas to a boardroom at Baycrest Hospital last Sunday. There, at the regular monthly meeting of the Royal Canadian Legion Wingate Branch 256, comprising Jewish Second World War and Korean War veterans, the portrait of Jerry Rosenberg found a permanent home.
Ellin Bessner speaks about Canada’s 17,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the Second World War.
A photo of the grave of a Toronto Jewish soldier who was killed in Normandy in July 1944 is front…