Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Edit Kuper lives in Montreal and is working to form a 2nd G. group in her city. Her parents are from Poland, she spent her first few years in a DP Camp in Austria and grew … Continued
By Kathy Clark Kathy Clark is an Ottawa area author. She has written two novels for young adults based on the true experiences in Hungary of her mother and father during the Holocaust. The books, ‘Guardian Angel House’ and ‘The … Continued
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 “How can an exhibition return the humanity to all the people murdered in the chaos of war when the numbers are literally incomprehensible?” asks Robert M. Ehrenreich and co-author Jane Klinger in an article titled “War … Continued
By Arthur Leader How are we, the survivors’ children, to make sense of what it means to be living as Jews in the comfort of the twenty-first century, without any possible feel or limited knowledge of what it took to … Continued
Saturday, September 8, 2018 In honour of Holocaust Education Month, the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Temple Israel Religious School, and the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship, are collaborating to create a Pop-Up Museum where local Ottawa families will tell the story … Continued
Monday, June 11, 2018 Trailblazing fashion journalist Jeanne Beker will bear witness on Monday in Ottawa to the courage and suffering of her parents — Holocaust survivors who hid in fields, barns and underground bunkers to escape genocide in wartime … Continued
Date: Monday, June 11, 2018 Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM Location: The Singhal Family Theatre, Richcraft Hall, (formerly River Building) 9376 University Dr, Ottawa. Underground parking available at Richcraft Hall (For directions, please see Carleton University campus map.) Cost: $25 … Continued
Monday, June 4, 2018
Date: April 26, 2018 Location: Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa Cost: Free, but registration is required Experience the moving story of Czech-born Holocaust survivor David Moskovic through video testimonial, followed by a talk on “The Enduring Importance of … Continued
Date: Official Opening: March 20, 2018 (Exhibition will run from March 21 – April 29, 2018) Time: 6:00 PM Location: Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa Cost: Free, but attendance confirmation is required Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, more than … Continued