The short life and bravery of Telegraphist Sydney Shinewald recalled on Remembrance Day
We don’t know much about the short life and tragic death of Sydney Shinewald, but more than 75 years after his wartime murder, it is time to tell his story. Sydney was born in Winnipeg in 1925, the only child of my great-uncle Charles and his first wife, Jennie. He attended the Jewish Workmen’s Circle School, […]
B.C. is considering a name change for the mountain named for French war criminal Philippe Pétain
July 5, 2022: Philippe Pétain‘s name is now being rescinded from sites in British Columbia, eight months after this story was published by The CJN. British Columbia is mulling whether to drop the name of Vichy France’s leader from the names of a mountain, creek and glacier that straddle the border with Alberta. Last year, […]
Helmut Oberlander, the last Canadian tied to Nazi war crimes, dead at 97
For years, it was assumed—or feared—that Helmut Oberlander would die before he could be deported from Canada for alleged Nazi-era war crimes. On Sept. 20, Oberlander obliged, ending arguably the most protracted and frustrating legal proceeding against any suspected war criminal on Canadian soil. He was 97 when he died, surrounded by family, at his […]
Heirs snub German city’s tribute to looted art dealer Max Stern
Canadian scholars concerned exhibit will not address the difficulty of restituting Nazi-looted works.
Art exhibit uncovers stories of Canadian Jewish women who served in WW2
“Women in military history have always been silent.”
Wartime photographer Faye Schulman captured lives of the partisan resistance
Faye Schulman, for decades an outsized presence in Holocaust education whose survival as a partisan photographer in the forests of Poland was the stuff of Hollywood, died in Toronto on April 24.
Putin delivers false history at Yad Vashem event
The Russian president’s claim that 40 per cent of Jewish Holocaust victims were from the Soviet Union is absurd, historians said.
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.
Germany to compensate Kindertransport survivors
Germany will compensate survivors of the Kindertransport with a one-time payment of just over $3,800 each, the Claims Conference announced on Dec. 17.
University of Ottawa Holocaust historian sues Polish group for libel
Jan Grabowski, whose specialty is the fate of the Jews in wartime Poland, is suing a Polish nationalist organization for allegedly libelling him.
