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Ellin Bessner: How Canada's Jewish Soldiers in WWII Liberated Nazi Death Camps including Bergen Belsen

CAEF is very pleased to collaborate with the Canadian Institute of Jewish ResearchJewish War Veterans, and the Lodzer Centre Congregation, in sponsoring this entertaining and elucidating evening with Canadian author Ellin Bessner.

Did you know that while Jewish Canadians comprised 1.5 percent of the Canadian population in 1940, Jews provided 2.6 percent of Canada’s airmen, 1.4 percent of its soldiers and 0.7 percent of its sailors?  Learn more.

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