We were both born in Europe after World War II. Richard was in Lwow, Poland to Polish Jews and I was born in a displaced person’s camp also to Polish Jews. Our parents were all survivors. His mother spent the war hiding in a cellar. His father spent the war first in the Polish Army and th…
My parents were Holocaust survivors who stayed in Poland after the war as the new government seemed to be open to allowing Jews equal opportunities in post war Poland. By the mid 1950’s the old anti-Semitism was starting to return, and my father accepted his brother’s invitation to com…
Philanthropy has always been a big part of my life.
I had good role models. My father Monte, a product of the Peretz schools, became at 30-years-old Winnipeg’s youngest chair of the UJA Campaign. He would later become President of the Jewish Community, Chair of Canadian Friends of Heb…
Mental Health Empowerment Day (MHED) is a collaboration of the Julia and Henry Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education and a group of volunteers. MHED was conceived by Leanne Matlow, a former teacher and guidance counsellor in Toronto’s day school system, and currently a Cogni-tive Behaviou…
