It is a message we should heed during Remembrance Week, when Canadians hold parades and solemn ceremonies at local cenotaphs to honour the soldiers who died in war, and also the surviving veterans. It is not enough to not forget. Be active in your remembrance.
They both grew up in pre-war Toronto, although one came from the poor neighbourhood known as The Ward, while the other came from a nicer neighbourhood near the Beaches. Both served in the Second World War, and it isn’t hard to see why they’d never met: Lt.- Col. Norman Cohen served as a navigator in the RCAF and was posted to England and then to Burma, while Lorne Winer was with the Royal Canadian Artillery and served in England and then through Normandy and Northwestern Europe after D-Day until long after V-E Day.
Larry Levy, April 2016 (Photo by Ellin Bessner) I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Larry twice this spring…
It’s been one year exactly since I received the green light from my college, Centennial College, in Toronto, to take…
Murray Jacobs, (Ellin Bessner photo). I had the honour to interview Murray Jacobs last December, 2014 at his Toronto home…
