As children of the Holocaust who came to Canada as orphans, we have been granted numerous blessings. Overcoming many obstacles, somehow we have always been able to look forward to a brighter future. We are blessed with four children, their spouses and 7 grandchildren who are bringing us lots…
My parents, Basia Z"L and Israel Z"L Chaiton, met in in Wierzbnik, Poland. They married in 1939 but were separated when the Nazi horrors began. They both survived the camps, including Auschwitz, before reuniting in Sweden. My mother’s family perished but my father’s two brothers surv…
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…
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…
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…
