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Book of Life Stories

Jun 2, 2016

Judy Feld Carr, C.M., Mus.M., Mus.Bac., L.L.D., L.H.D

Judy Feld Carr is a former university lecturer in musicology and music education, who spent almost three decades secretly arranging the rescue of the bulk of the Syrian Jewish community, for which she was awarded the Order of Canada, the Presidential Medal of Distinction of the State of Isra…

Jun 2, 2016

Vicki Campbell z”l

My parents, fleeing Germany in December 1939, met on the boat to New York. They soon married and settled in Allentown,Pennsylvania, where my brother and I were born and raised.

My parents worked hard as professional photographers. Jewish life held an important place in our home. Friday nigh…

Jun 2, 2016

Arnold Buxbaum z"l

My story begins in Storozhynets, Bukovina, in north-eastern Romania. I had two brothers and my parents ran a successful wood and flour mill business. On June 28, 1940 the Russians occupied our city, nationalized our business, keeping my father as a temporary adviser. I became a bookkeeper in…

Jun 2, 2016

Beverley D. Burdeyney

You would be forgiven, on first meeting Beverley Burdeyney, for feeling you had just been confronted by a force of nature. Her zest for life, and for cherishing each day she is given, fills any room she occupies.

Beverley, by her own account, has “a nose for finding solutions,” and beca…

Jun 2, 2016

Sandy Brown

I come from a small Jewish community in New Brunswick where we didn't have an organized structure for charity, but every year at Rosh Hashanah, the Rabbi had a fund people could contribute to for those less fortunate. I also saw the roots of Jewish education in our home. My mother started a …