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Monday, April 18, 2016
Through working with Ottawa Holocaust survivors over many years, members of the recently created CHES recognize that there is an urgent need to record and preserve survivor accounts for future generations and for educational and research purposes before it is too late. CHES is in contact with local Holocaust survivors and is already working... More
CHES was asked by Yad Vashem Toronto to invite 50 Ottawa grade 11 students to participate in the "Ambassadors of Change" program which is part of the 2016 National Holocaust Remembrance Day Event on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. This is the first time that Ottawa students are... More
Monday, December 14, 2015
Carleton’s Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies celebrated the inauguration of their new Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) on Sunday, Nov. 8 with the screening of an Israeli documentary. Among a crowd of dignitaries, a number of Holocaust survivors and family members gathered in the Azrieli Theatre with the founding committee... More
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
When Vera Gara told students at Cairine Wilson Secondary School it was important to help the Syrian refugees now on their way to Canada, her words carried more weight than any politician’s. Gara, 82, knows what it’s like to flee her home, to lose everything, to face death and then rebuild a new life.... More
Friday, November 6, 2015
Cypora Lev is living proof that new stories from the Holocaust continue to be discovered and told to new audiences more than 70 years after the Nazi’s military defeat ended the regime’s systematic murder of six million Jews. Lev, 69, of Montreal was born in March 1946 in a refugee camp in southern Italy,... More
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
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