The CJN’s book columnist Hannah Srour looks at three recently translated novels that examine the Holocaust and its legacy of antisemitism
I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To by Mikołaj Grynberg, translated by Sean Gasper Bye First published in Polish in 2017, this is both Mikolaj Grynberg’s first work of fiction, and his first book in English translation. (Polish-language readers may be familiar with the author’s previously published books of […]
The explosive new Anne Frank betrayer allegations are being disputed by this Canadian survivor of the Holocaust
Editor’s note: Since our story came out on Tuesday, the Dutch publisher of the controversial new book about who betrayed Anne Frank has announced they are pulling all copies from bookstore shelves in the Netherlands. Ambo Anthos made the move following the release of a report by several historians in Amsterdam refuting the allegations made […]
‘Heil Hitler’ salutes, swastikas and Holocaust COVID incidents reported at two Toronto public schools
Officials from two public schools in heavily Jewish neighbourhoods in Toronto have sent letters home to families reporting “upsetting and unacceptable” incidents of antisemitism against Jewish students last week. According to the Toronto District School Board, two separate cases happened at Charles H. Best Junior Middle School, on Wilmington Avenue in Bathurst Manor. A Grade […]
Michael Ignatieff on what he learned about the Holocaust from Primo Levi
Auschwitz, summer 1944. On a hot Sunday afternoon, two young men in their twenties, one from northern Italy, the other from Strasbourg in Alsace, are walking through the camp to the kitchens to pick up a tureen of soup and carry it back to their barracks. They have both been in the camp for about […]
Amateur genealogists can now contribute to Holocaust records thanks to Stanley Diamond’s JRI-Poland working with Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem—and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (JRI), a non-profit organization co-founded and headed by Stanley Diamond of Montreal, announced a landmark agreement to partner through technology. The partnership recognizes the importance of amateur genealogists in advancing Yad Vashem’s mission when their contribution is supported by hard data and does not […]
‘Survivor Children’: Harry Tiefenbach’s new painting exhibit was inspired by the orphans of the Holocaust
Portraits he painted from photographs of orphans who survived the Holocaust are the focus of Harry Tiefenbach’s latest art exhibition, Survivor Children. Some were rescued in 1945 by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from thr Flossenburg concentration camp. Their pictures, with their names on placards, were published in German newspapers in an effort to repatriate them to surviving families. Other […]
‘Incredible experience’ to complete his NYC Marathon: Montrealer raised $7,547 for Holocaust survivors
Overcame physical and extremely challenging mental strain to complete the world’s largest marathon.
Israel honours a Dutch couple who hid a Jewish boy during the Holocaust with a ceremony at the consulate in Toronto
About four years ago, Margaret DeJong opened an email attachment of a photo. To her amazement, it showed her grandparents, her father and her aunts and uncles in the Netherlands during the Second World War. The sender was a man in Israel she had never heard of. The immediate thought of the 63-year-old Sarnia, Ont. […]
A cattle car exhibit brought some Holocaust education to Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park (before it hit the road)
“To imagine 100 people in there feels impossible.” “It’s explained how many people were in these cars, but it’s hard to imagine when you’re reading it in a history book. Ten of us were in there, and to imagine 100 people in there feels impossible. It’s a lot to take in.” That was the reaction […]
Yad Vashem marks the birthday of prolific Holocaust speaker Eva Olsson (who lives in Muskoka at age 97)
Her message has always been a straightforward one.
