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The Watchmaker of Normandy: Murray Jacobs

November 25, 2015 Leave a comment

Murray Jacobs, (Ellin Bessner photo). I had the honour to interview Murray Jacobs last December, 2014 at his Toronto home…

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Filed under: bayeux, Falaise, Jewish war veterans, Lt. Gen Guy Simonds, Murray Jacobs, normandy, Operation Totalize, Royal Canadian Legion, second world war, Wingate branch

How a Montreal radio show host discovered his father’s rescuer in the Second World War

May 25, 2015 Leave a comment

Leslie Lutsky is a Montreal radio show host, on Radio Centreville, and also works as a tour guide taking visitors…

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Filed under: breakout from juno, Falaise, grenadier guards, janice rosen, jewish digest, john henry andrews, leslie lutsky, military medal, moses lutsky, Operation Totalise, point 195., radio centreville, sherman tank

Twin Jewish brothers from Toronto served in the Canadian Forces during the Second World War: One went to France after D-Day. And didn’t come back.

June 6, 2014 Leave a comment

(photo courtesy of http://twgpp.org/Steve Rogers) So thrilled to hear from the family of Bombardier Albert Tweyman, of Toronto, killed Aug. 8,…

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Filed under: bretteville sur laize, Cormelles le Royal, d-day, Essex Scottish Regiment, Falaise, jewish canadian servicemen, Operation Totalise, Tweyman

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