Here’s why two Jewish organizations produced a fictional podcast about Holocaust zombies
The writer/director behind the new series ‘Justice: A Holocaust Zombie Story’ explains himself.
Doctors were centrally complicit in the Holocaust. What are the lessons for Canadian medical schools today?
A special report published for Holocaust Education Week: Nov. 4-10, 2024.
Treasure Trove remembers a Portuguese diplomat who was severely punished for saving Jews during the Holocaust
Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches (1885-1954) was the Portuguese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France who in May and June 1940 issued visas to thousands of desperate Jews seeking to escape to safety. Historian Yehuda Bauer said that Sousa Mendes’ actions were “perhaps the largest rescue action by a single individual during the Holocaust.” […]
Eighty years after it was stolen, a German curator returned Nazi-looted silver to a museum in London, Ontario
A long-lost chapter of the Holocaust found a resolution as silver plundered by the Nazis from Mina and Adolf Ackermann made its way back to London, Ont., the home of their sole surviving child. A small silver bowl crafted in the 17th century and a ceremonial lamp were two of Mina and Adolf’s cherished possessions, […]
Obituary: Rabbi Erwin Schild, 103, a scholar and author who led Toronto’s Adath Israel Congregation for over 40 years
Rabbi Erwin Schild, who survived Kristallnacht and internment at the Dachau concentration camp to go on to lead one of Toronto’s largest Conservative synagogues for over 40 years, died Jan. 6. He was 103. Rabbi Schild’s life encompassed some of the worst moments of Jewish life in the 20th century. Born in Cologne, Germany, March […]
Treasure Trove: How some sheet music in the Theresienstadt Ghetto became a symbol of hope
In 1941, the Nazis established the Theresienstadt Ghetto outside Prague. By the war’s end, 33,000 people died there and another 88,000 stayed there for months or years before being deported to extermination camps. Despite the tremendous overcrowding and very difficult conditions, the prisoners in Theresienstadt maintained a rich cultural life with lectures and performances. The […]
Treasure Trove: David Matlow remembers a courageous Jewish educator from Berlin
Paula Furst (1894-1942) was a German educator who trained in the Montessori method and opened the first Montessori class in Berlin in 1926. When the Nazis seized power in 1933, Montessori education was banned as it was considered incompatible with Nazi ideology, in part because of its focus on the individualism of the child. Furst was […]
Obituary: Fanny Wedro, 95, a passionate force for Holocaust education in Calgary
Fanny Wedro, a ubiquitous presence in Calgary’s Jewish community and an unrelenting campaigner for Holocaust education in Alberta, died on Aug. 21 – four days short of her 96th birthday. “Fanny would say that the first time in her life she ever felt tired was when she turned 95,” said Marnie Bondar, co-chair of Holocaust […]
Yvonne Singer, a Toronto artist who was saved by Wallenberg as an infant, is still on a voyage of self-discovery
As an artist herself, Yvonne Singer can well appreciate the esthetic merits of the open-air monument to Swedish Second World War hero Raoul Wallenberg that was unveiled over the summer at Churchill Park in Hamilton, Ont. Though she had not, as of this writing, personally viewed the installation, dubbed “Be:longings,” Singer spoke admiringly of the […]
A DNA test reunited long-lost cousins who were separated by the Holocaust
For 80 years, Raymonde (Ray) Fiol believed that her mother and all her mother’s family had been murdered in the Holocaust. That all changed when a Montreal woman contacted her after their DNA matched on an online genealogy platform. Fiol was born in Paris, France, and is a Jewish child survivor of the Holocaust. She […]
