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Wednesday, November 7, 2018
The Holocaust Pop-Up Museum, held earlier this week, was an amazing and moving event, well attended by people inspired by a deep interest in the history of the Holocaust. Click below to listen to Mina Cohn’s interview with CBC's Alan Neil on Monday, November 5th.... More
Monday, October 29, 2018
Please find below the Canadian Prime Minister’s official statement of condolences following the October 27th attack in Pittsburgh. ENGLISH... More
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. Please join Niv Ashkenzi for a "Violins of Hope" performance during the Holocaust Education Month launch event, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of... More
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 up surrounded by Holocaust survivors in Montreal. Edit is the Immediate Past Co-President of the Dora Wasserman Yiddish... More
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 in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak.” This is an issue that the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship... More
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 of their family’s experience of the Holocaust through objects. To learn more about... More
Monday, June 18, 2018
Jeanne Beker, a daughter of two Holocaust survivors and a successful Journalist, speaks about her parents survival stories and how they shaped her personality and made her what she... More
Friday, June 15, 2018
Fashion journalist Jeanne Beker tells her parents' Holocaust story.... More
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 Poland. Beker, best known as the longtime host of Fashion Television, grew up in a household where the... More
Monday, June 4, 2018
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
On Monday, Jun. 11, discover the many lives of Jeanne Beker popular media personality, fashion maven, author and descendant of Holocaust survivors as she talks with Jody Spiegel, Director of the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Memoirs Program. It's taking place inside the Singhal Family Theatre located inside Carleton University's Richcraft Hall,... More
Thursday, February 15, 2018
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