“He wanted to take them all: How Canadian soldiers in WWII Rescued the Survivors of the Holocaust” As Canada, and…
Author and journalist Ellin Bessner speaks to one of the largest Men’s Clubs in Montreal, whose members include some of…
On the 73rd anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, come hear Ellin Bessner, the author…
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.