Estonian summer camp removes names of Nazi SS leaders from monument after Jewish group objects
The monument had the names of four Estonian leaders of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS.
How this Montreal businessman just repaid a 78-year old debt to France, where his father was rescued from the Nazis on D-Day 1944
It was an overcast day in early April when Montreal businessman Harvey Engelberg found himself in the middle of a muddy farmer’s field in northern France, reciting the Jewish memorial prayer for the dead. Engelberg was repaying a 78-year old debt on behalf of his late father. Cobby Engelberg had served as an RCAF radio […]
Toronto Suburb to Remove Nazi’s Name from Street
A Nazi navy officer’s name will finally be stripped from a street in the Toronto suburb of Ajax.
Toronto Suburb Delays on Changing Street Named for a Nazi
A Toronto suburb still has a street named after a Nazi despite a town council vote three months ago to change it.
Jeff Ansell Offered Media Training ‘to Deal With People Like Me’
Jeff Ansell, who parlayed a journalism career into a lucrative business that coached executives in crisis management and massaging reputations, died on Feb. 23 in Toronto of cancer. He was 65.
Remains of hundreds of bodies discovered at former Jewish ghetto of Brest, Belarus
A mass grave containing bones from hundreds of bodies was discovered during construction atop what used to be the ghetto of Brest, in present-day Belarus.
CNN and NBC air ad for Oscar-nominated documentary about NY Nazi rally
CNN and MSNBC have each broadcast an ad that Fox News rejected in its original form for a documentary about a Nazi rally held in New York in 1939.
Bill taxing restitution money would strip tiny Czech Jewish community of $2 million
A bill brought forward by the lower house of the Czech parliament will, if passed, cost the country’s small Jewish community more than two million dollars in taxes on properties returned to it following the Holocaust.
Dutch couple find forgotten Holocaust history in their countryside home
Chronicling the story of Dutch novelist Roxane van Iperen, who discovered that during the Holocaust her new home had been the centre for one of Holland’s most daring rescue operations conducted by Jews for Jews.
Ben-Dat: Remember, remember the month of November
“We owe all who served – and all who fell – a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.”
