Prime Minister’s Condolences – Pittsburgh Attack
Monday, October 29, 2018 Please find below the Canadian Prime Minister’s official statement of condolences following the October 27th attack in Pittsburgh. Read the English PDF version ENGLISH FRENCH
CONFERENCE: Canadian Holocaust Literature: Charting the Field
Date: October 27-28, 2018 Time: 7:30 – 9:00 PM (Oct. 27), 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Oct. 28) Location: Soloway Jewish Community Centre, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa Cost: Free, registration required October 27th: Opening panel of the conference Canadian Holocaust … Continued
Violins of Hope: reclaiming a lost heritage
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship is honoured to welcome classical violinist Niv Ashkenazi during its Holocaust Education Month launch event. To read more about Mr. Ashkenazi and his prized instrument, please click on the … Continued
A message from Edit Kuper, Co-president of Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants (CJHSD)
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
Sukkot luncheon for Shoah survivors and second and third generation descendants
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
Ehrenreich helps artifacts ‘speak’ for Holocaust victims; Ottawa community asked to submit artifacts for ‘Pop-Up’ museum
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
Commemorate. Educate. Inspire.
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
Ottawa Holocaust Education Month Pop-Up Museum November 4-5, 2018
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
Ottawa Citizen: Fashionista Jeanne Beker calls her parents’ Holocaust story a ‘family legacy’
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
In Conversation with Jeanne Beker
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