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Judy Cohen: Daunted but Undeterred

There are times in life when one hears about events so horrific that they can only describe them as ‘incredible’ or ‘unbelievable.’ Judy Cohen, a Holocaust survivor, shares what it was like to be a part of one of history’s blackest, most ‘unbelievable’ moments.

A Toronto woman with an incredible story just hit a big milestone.

Molly Applebaum is a Holocaust survivor and a published author. A virtual celebration was held Tuesday in her honour as she marked her 90th birthday. Talia Ricci has Applebaum’s incredible story.

Writing for Those Who Can't

During World War II, Susan Garfield started writing in a diary. Now, the written words of a teenager are immortalized in a memoir for all to read.

Spiegel: Holocaust Must Be Taught as an Independent Event

In September 2018, the Azrieli Foundation, in partnership with the Claims Conference, commissioned a comprehensive study of Canadian knowledge and awareness of the Holocaust. The results, published in January of 2019, were alarming:

For Canadian survivor of Holocaust, this trip to Auschwitz is an act of defiance

For Johnny Jablon, making the trip to Poland for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau is part of his revenge against his Nazi tormentors.

A Powerful Pilgrimage

Toronto man says trip to Auschwitz is about educating future generations

Auschwitz, 75 years later: What Canada’s survivors remember about the death camp’s horrors

As children, they were among more than one million people rounded up into the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camp. They lost family and found traumas that still haunt them in their 80s and 90s. These are their stories

‘They went in and they never came out’: Holocaust survivor shares story with Halifax audience

’The only visual memory Pinchas Gutter has of his twin sister, Sabina, is her blond braid as she hugged her mother before their family was sent into a Nazi concentration camp...