The Shoah’s incalculable impact on Jewish contributions
The Holocaust pushed the Jewish people to be where they are today.
JVS marks 70 years of preparing people for the workplace
From its beginnings as an organization that helped Holocaust survivors find work in Canada, JVS now serves 10,000 clients with a budget of $17 million.
The complex character of Elie Wiesel
Gil Troy describes the life of Wiesel not as a sad one, but a life that healed, ennobled, and inspired Jews and non-Jews alike.
Helen Epstein: Depicting second-generation trauma
Author publishes book on what it means to be a second-generation Holocaust survivor.
Holocaust survivor makes art out of other people’s junk
Sean Wainsteim has mounted a mixed-media exhibit featuring photographs of his survivor grandfather’s creations – things like a dustpan he made himself, and headphones he made from an old pair of pants.
‘The saddest coffeehouse in the world:’ On H.G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941-1945
Adler writes with grim judgement of the degrading impact of privilege and hierarchies among the camp’s tens of thousands of incarcerated Jews.
Auschwitz survivor, well-known Holocaust educator, dies at 92
Faced with starvation, hard labour, disease, harsh winters and a death march, Shentow was the only person in his immediate family to come out of the war alive.
Bringing Holocaust survivors in from the cold – literally
There are many reasons why survivors live in poverty,such as physical disabilities and mental health issues. Survivors suffer from almost 15 per cent more disabilities than the general Jewish population in their age group.
A tribute to my late, great bar mitzvah teacher
Mr. Zucker’s legacy is that of a silent mentor who guided others by the example of his life, without even knowing he was doing so. One of his son-in-laws told me, “When my sons have an ethical problem, they ask themselves, ‘What would Zaide do?'”
Keith Landy recalled as ‘quintessential Jewish communal leader’
Keith Landy, who headed Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) nationally as well as in Ontario, died in Toronto Feb. 24 of pancreatic cancer. He was 66.
