A collector paid $11,875 USD for this rare Canadian Jewish WW1 poster once found for $25
Reactions to our recent podcast interview about the auction.
Anne Frank: A History for Today
A new museum exhibit on Anne Frank is on display at Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum until Apr. 25.
Elarar: The Jews of Morocco were not refugees
Avraham Elarar writes about the muddled and perhaps forgotten history of Moroccan Jewry in the twentieth century.
Azrieli: Canadians’ lack of knowledge of the Holocaust is shocking
Naomi Azrieli reflects on the recent poll showing that over half of Canadians don’t know that six-million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
More than half of Canadians don’t know six million Jews died in Holocaust: poll
In the midst of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a new poll suggests a depressing – some may say shocking – fact: more than half of Canadians and nearly two-thirds of young people in this country do not know that six million Jews perished in the Holocaust.
Levine: ‘The life of each one of us hung on a hair’
Allan Levine chronicles the story of Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz.
University of Ottawa Holocaust historian sues Polish group for libel
Jan Grabowski, whose specialty is the fate of the Jews in wartime Poland, is suing a Polish nationalist organization for allegedly libelling him.
The storied history of Jewish coffee culture
The vast multiplication of java joints in today’s world is no substitute for the grand tradition of European-inspired coffee houses.
From the streets of Vienna, to the trenches of WWII
Martin Maxwell’s journey took him from an Austrian orphanage, to the British Armed Forces during the Second World War and finally to Canada, where he started a business that he runs to this day.
Child survivor returns to honour the French villagers who hid her
Montrealer Georgette Brinberg, a Holocaust survivor, returned to France to honour the memory of the people in the village of Morée, who sheltered her and her sister during that terrible time.
