‘The world was infinitely better thanks to you’: Refugee advocate Janis Roth dies of cancer
Janis Roth, a woman who combined compassion and toughness to steer Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) of Toronto through some tumultuous years, died at her home in Thornhill, Ont., on April 29, after a brief bout of cancer. She was 59.
Virtual museum on Jewish-Canadian Holocaust refugees opens
The varying experiences of desperate European Jews who made their way to Canada between 1933 and 1955 are highlighted in a new online resource produced by the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
The looming reality of no survivors left
The lingering reality that one day there will be no more Holocaust survivors left makes Rona Arato’s The Ship to Nowhere an especially important read.
Tory MP calls on government to apologize for St. Louis
Deepak Obhrai is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to formally apologize on behalf of the government of Canada for turning away Jewish refugees on board the ocean liner St. Louis in 1939
Babies born on Holocaust refugee ship meet 76 years later
The two promised that from now on, they would meet more frequently than once every 76 years
Post-1948 Jewish refugees ignored, community event told
The world knows all about the estimated 600,000 Arab refugees that resulted from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence; by contrast, how many are aware that 850,000 Jews were expelled from or fled Arab lands in the Middle East and North Africa during Israel’s tumultuous birth?
