From the streets of Vienna, to the trenches of WWII
Martin Maxwell’s journey took him from an Austrian orphanage, to the British Armed Forces during the Second World War and finally to Canada, where he started a business that he runs to this day.
Friendship between survivors of Second World War naval disaster honoured
Harry Hurwitz and Raymond Meloche were comrades in arms who survived the sinking of their ship and a German POW camp during the Second World War. Their friendship lasted a lifetime.
Minna Aspler remembered for her courage in the Warsaw Uprising
Minna Aspler lived to 100, which is all the more remarkable because she escaped death when she was barely out of her teens.
Child survivor returns to honour the French villagers who hid her
Montrealer Georgette Brinberg, a Holocaust survivor, returned to France to honour the memory of the people in the village of Morée, who sheltered her and her sister during that terrible time.
German-born survivor’s son fights for German citizenship
John Margolis has tried everything he can think of to obtain what he believes is his birthright: German citizenship.
Letters reveal the struggles of Jewish refugees in Peru
Had it not been for the adventurousness of Walter Neisser – a young German Jew and First World War veteran who set out to make his fortune in South America in the 1920s – his many descendants would likely not be here today.
Scholars restore pages with sexuality and dirty jokes to Anne Frank’s diary
The pages’ contents had remained unknown for decades because Frank had erased them. They were also covered by sheets of brown paper glued on top of them.
The role of Jewish Canadian soldiers in the Second World War
Double Threat, by Ellin Bessner, leaves no stones unturned in its telling of the full-blooded saga of the heroic participation of Jewish men and women in the Canadian military during the Second World War.
The Great Hunt: The search for the hidden Jews of liberated Europe
For the Canadian Jews in uniform, liberation was an experience of exhilaration mixed with despair and a strong sense of responsibility, writes Ellin Bessner in her book.
Kanovich pens a requiem for the shtetl
Grigory Kanovich’s novel Shtetl Love Song depicts the way of life in a small Lithuanian shtetl in the years leading up to the Second World War.
