Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.

Survivor hidden in Warsaw Zoo: A Toronto woman is one of the few remaining survivors who lived the story the current film The Zookeeper’s Wife is based on.

Matzah in British Columbia: Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner reportedly didn’t attend the official White House seder but instead celebrated the initial days of the holiday in Whistler, B.C.

Spicer under fire for Holocaust comments: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is doing major damage control for claims he made earlier in the week that Adolf Hitler never used chemical weapons “against his people,” and then, that Hitler used chemical weapons only within “Holocaust centres.”

China on Israel/Palestine: After meeting with the Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki in Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi referred to the Palestinian people not having their own state as a “historical injustice.”

Rabbi describes Syria as holocaust: Tel Aviv’s chief rabbi and the chairman of Yad Vashem, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, has called the current crisis in Syria “a holocaust.”

Sounds of The Ward revived: On April 26, a cabaret-style concert at Toronto’s Lula Lounge will showcase some of the re-imaged music and sounds that likely filled the streets of The Ward, Toronto’s former immigrant enclave, in the early 20th century. The since-razed neighbourhood was filled with newcomers of Italian, Chinese and eastern European Jewish origins.

Brooklyn shul burns: A Brooklyn synagogue caught fire last night. No injuries were reported.