Toronto high school students are spending the day at Fort York to learn about the start of the Second World…
Esther Thorley’s brother Meyer Bubis, who was eleven years older than her, had enlisted in the Toronto-based Royal Regiment of Canada on Sept. 7, 1939, mere days after Hitler’s Nazi forces had invaded Poland to start WWll. Bubis would eventually be part of the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe, France in August 1942. After he was killed, Thorley waited for her eighteenth birthday in June 1943, and enlisted. She was one of only 270 Canadian Jewish women to wear a uniform for Canada in WWll. Thorley, an Ajax, Ontario resident, died suddenly on Feb. 13, 2018.
D-Day and the Untold Stories of Canada’s Jewish Fighters in Uniform in WWII Canadian author and journalist Ellin Bessner…
many times, it is at the end of the evening when I experience some of the most thrilling moments of my six year long journey to uncover the war heritage of Canada’s Jewish fighters.
In 2017, Canadian Jewish war hero David Hart and his wife travelled to Dieppe, France with Veterans Affairs Canada in…
Writing the Wrong: How Canada’s Jews in Uniform Fought WWll Author and journalist Ellin Bessner will discuss her new book,…
Double Threat is a journalistic look at the untold stories of the Jewish Canadian men and women who served in uniform during the dark years of the last great war.