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Book of Life Stories

Jun 2, 2016

Morland Brown and Glennie & Nathan Lindenberg

Our parents were a product of their times. David Brown grew up in the small town of Wodizlaw, Poland and lost his own parents and siblings, who perished in the Holocaust. Following his sole surviving brother, he moved to Toronto to start a new life. There he met and married Rose Weisbloom, w…

Jun 2, 2016

Dr. Melvin Brown

I was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1939, and grew up in this small Maritime town with only 60 other Jewish families. The absence of a Jewish day school emphasized the importance of institutions like Camp Kadimah, Young Judaea, Habonim, Hadassah and the Sgoolai Israel Synagogue. Thes…

Jun 2, 2016

Golda Brown & Harry Krakowsky

My story begins many years ago when I was a child. My parents, Al G. and Shirley Brown, have always been philanthropic. Through their actions I have truly understood the meaning of tzedakah. On a regular basis, there was a knock on the door of my parents' house and men with white beards, wea…

Jun 2, 2016

Helen & David Wm. Brown

It's not about us. It's about our children.

It's not about the past, or even the present. It's about the future.

Sarah Edite Brown, our elder daughter, was born July 9, 1989. Named after her Zaidy Sam Segal's sister Sarah, who perished in the Holocaust, and her Zaidy Al G. Brown's sister E…

Jun 2, 2016

Allan & Lisa Brown

Lisa and I were both born and raised in Toronto; it is our community and our home. Our parents always taught us that when you live in a community, you give back to it, and we have made this important lesson the centerpiece of our Jewish involvement and our family’s tzedakah.

Lisa’s fath…