Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto

Finding Your Roots - Season Debut
2019-01-08 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Finding Your Roots, with Henry Louis Gates, begins its new season on January 8, 2019 at 8:00 PM ET on your local PBS station. Check your local station guide. This is the fifth season of the show—the episode guide may be found at:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/about/season-5-episode-guide/
The new season includes Andy Samberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Sarah Silverman and many more. The ten episodes will have 26 guests learning about their family history.
see: https://www.pbs.org/video/season-5-preview-uv6am6/

Lithuania Belarus SIG
2018-12-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DNA Special Interest Group (SIG)
2018-12-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2018-11-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

JGS General Meeting - Drowning in Data: Some Survival Techniques
2018-12-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Speaker: Les Kelman
Click on this link to view the details of Les’ presentation
Doors open 7:30 pm
Location: Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (see map)
Sisterhood Hall

Accessing Records From Ukraine - General Meeting
2018-11-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Congregation Darchei Noam, 864 Sheppard Ave. West, Toronto, Ontario, M3H2T5, Canada
Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto.
Challenges in Accessing Records from Ukraine
Speaker: Dr. Janette Silverman
Doors open at 7:30 pm (*Note the location – Darchei Noam Congregation – see the map)
Research and travel in Ukraine is different from traveling through Canada, the US, and many other places in Europe. Dr. Silverman will speak of some challenges for travelers and researchers and how to avoid/overcome them, and prepare for a visit.
Examples of visits to several archives in Ukraine will be discussed, and samples of documents found in the archives will be reviewed. Conditions of cemeteries will be briefly touched on, and what can be done to preserve what is still standing.Dr. Silverman will also discuss how some Ukrainian archival material can be accessed without travel to Ukraine.
Using the video conferencing technology of a GoToMeeting, Dr. Silverman will speak to us from either Utah (work) or Arizona (home) in real time via the internet (click here for full details). There will be ample opportunity for questions and answers.
Dr. Silverman holds a doctorate of Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish genealogical research from Spertus Institute in Chicago. She is a Senior Genealogist/Research Team Manager providing private client research for ProGenealogist, a division of Ancestry.com, focusing on Eastern European and Jewish research.
Janette is a volunteer JewishGen Ukraine SIG Coordinator and moderator of the JewishGen Discussion Group. In 2017 she was JewishGen Volunteer of the Year, as well as Chair of the 2016 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) Conference in Seattle, Washington. In August 2018 she led a group of researchers to the archives in Lithuania, Ukraine Moldova, Romania and Poland.

Members: Free Guests: $5
info@jgstoronto.ca www.jgstoronto.ca Tel: 647-247-6414

Learn The Real Story - Ontario's South African Immigrants
2018-11-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Lipa Green Building, Sherman Campus, 4600 Bathurst St., Toronto, 4600 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Ontario Jewish Archives is presenting a panel program on South Africa’s contribution to Ontario’s Jewish population. Over 500 former South Africans contributed personal materials, oral histories etc.
The event will include a lively panel discussion.
RSVP ojainquiries@ujafed.org to secure your seats

Click here for more information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1khKpw5dWuBkKV53erMW1_1VZ2qK1IeOI/view?usp=sharing

Ukraine SIG - Tonight’s meeting has been cancelled
2018-11-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Meeting details to be announced.

Kensington Market and the Great War
2018-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Lillian Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library, 239 College St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Please mark November 6 on your calendars for our next Kensington Market Historical Society event, “100 Years Ago: Kensington Market and the Great War”.
6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Lillian H. Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library.

Click here for details

Holocaust Education Week - An Introduction of Genealogy & The SCHERER Story
2018-11-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Beth Jacob Synagogue, 161 Stirling Ave., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Location: Beth Jacob Synagogue (** Note: This event is in Kitchener – please see the map below)
Speaker: Jerry Scherer
Jerry Scherer, son of Holocaust survivors, was born in Siberia in 1945. He and his parents spent 3 years in a Displaced Persons camp before emigrating to Montreal in 1949.
Click here to see the details of his talk.

Cancellation Notice: Central European SIG
2018-10-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Cancellation Notice:
The first meeting of the Fall for the Central European SIG will not be taking place as scheduled due to the illness of the speaker.
Date: Oct. 29, 2018
Start: 7:30 pm.

Limmud - Festival of Jewish Learning, Culture and the Arts
2018-10-28 | Ontario
Faculty of Law, 78 Queens Park Circle. See the Limmud website for details.
Click here to see details of JGS Toronto speakers: Debbie Sacrob and Jerry Scherer

General Meeting: The Saddest Stories in the World - Yizkor Books and How to Use Them in Genealogy
2018-10-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Speaker: Steven Brock
Doors open at 7:30 pm
Location: Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (see map below)
Venue: Sisterhood Hall
Jewish history is filled with terrifying stories of oppression, persecution and mistreatment. Over the centuries, Jews have been subjected to libel, discrimination, pogroms, expulsions, and, in the worst cases, mass murder. In order to remember bygone communities and individuals, Jews have always kept records of these tragedies in Memorial or Yizkor books. Following the Holocaust, hundreds of Yizkor books were written and published to memorialize the thousands of European Jewish communities destroyed by the Nazis.
Join Steven Brock as he recounts the origins of Yizkor books, where to find and how to understand them, and how to use them to research your ancestral homes and the lost members of your family tree.
Steven Brock has been researching his family roots in Poland and Russia for over 20 years and has traced his ancestors back to the late 1700s. He was a member of the Montreal JGS until he moved with his family to Oakville in 1999. He has been a member of the Hamilton Jewish Genealogical Society since its inception in 2004, where he serves as Treasurer. In addition to his own research, he has been involved in several projects including the Jewish Records Indexing – Poland, The Canadian Naturalization Database Indexing, and the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry.
Click here for a more complete outline of Steven’s lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dUC26FUeSbOONhOAQ5pZ3pDKuhCJBElS/view?usp=sharing

Members: Free Guests: $5
info@jgstoronto.ca www.jgstoronto.ca Tel: 647-247-6414

Poland Special Interest Group - First Meeting of the Fall
2018-10-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
The next meeting of the Poland Special Interest Group will be held at Shaarei Shomayim Congregation on Monday Oct. 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm

Free RomWalk - Kensington
2018-10-21 15:30 - 17:00 | Ontario
Wander through what was once the old Jewish Market, past late Victorian buildings and onto the campus of the University of Toronto. Memories of times past mix with the modern life of condos, restaurants and music.
This walk is free and registration is not required – just show up.
The walk takes place rain or shine, and is approximately 90 minutes to 2 hours long.
ROMWalks is organized by the Royal Ontario Museum’s Department of Museum Volunteers to provide support for the Museum.

DNA - Special Interest Group - Meeting Cancelled
2018-10-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The first meeting of the Fall for the DNA SIG at the Family History Centre scheduled on Oct. 11 has been cancelled. The first meeting will take place November 8th.
Eric is planning to do a follow-up of Henry Wellisch’s DNA testing results (his Y-chromosome and mitochondrial haplogroups, and his AncestryDNA results vs. FamilyTreeDNA), and a recap of the Genetic Genealogy Foundations series to refresh memories and answer new questions.

Also, instead of just going through that Foundations series again, I thought it’d be fun and timely to start a new series where we explore genetic genealogy’s legal, privacy, and related issues. I’ve done a lot of research and thinking about this, but don’t have any definitive conclusions because so much depends on personal priorities and feelings. So I’ll share what I’ve learned and we can discuss.

Rich Genealogical Resources in Toronto for Doing East European Genealogy
2018-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | St Vladomir Institute, 620 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group invites you to hear Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden speak on “The Rich Genealogical Resources in Toronto for Doing East European Genealogy”
Do you need to go to Ukraine or Poland to find records of your ancestors going back ten or more generations? No you don’t!
In Toronto You can access genealogical records going back hundreds of years. This data is accessible through Institutions such as: the Family History Centre, Metro Toronto Reference Library, City of Toronto Archives, Archives of Ontario, St. Vladimir Library, the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre and other libraries.
You can access items such as: genealogy guidebooks, historical maps of the world, city directories, Canadian and foreign telephone directories, old country village descriptions, historical ethnic newspapers and documents, voting lists, immigration lists, ship passenger lists, census records, historical atlases and gazetteers, Ukrainian and Polish history books, digitized foreign newspapers, Displaced Persons collections, the Canadian Internment Collection, Holodomor Collection, property tax records, Ontario Vital Statistics and many, many old photos.
When: Tuesday, October 9 2018
From 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Where: St Vladimir Institute.
620 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Contact: (905) 841-6707

Lithuania-Belarus-Latvia Special Interest Group
2018-10-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The next meeting of the Lithuania SIG will be Oct. 4th.
Venue: Family History Centre
Time:7:30 pm

Ukraine SIG
2018-09-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The next meeting of the Ukraine SIG will take place at the Family History Centre on Sept 27.
Time 7:30 pm

Finding My Potter Family
2018-09-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
O Canada!
Finding My Potter Family

Speaker: Cindy Potter Taylor

Shaarei Shomayim, 470 Glencairn Avenue, Toronto
Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 10:30 am
Doors open at 10:00 am

With Jewish Genealogy, spelling has always been, and will always be, a problem in searching for one’s mishpocha. Cindy Potter Taylor will show us step by step how she learned to spell family names in different time periods eventually leading to the discovery of her Potter family in Canada.

Cindy Potter Taylor is president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Florida. She began her genealogy quest, in earnest, in 2003 following the untimely death of her sister. After 15 years of challenging research, she is coming to Toronto in September to meet some of her newly found Potter relatives. Cindy is eager to share her journey of discovery with JGS Toronto as it was one of our members, Neil Richler, whom she happened to find via Ancestry who assisted her in her Canadian research.

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Ashkenaz Festival - Celebrating Jewish Food
2018-08-29 - 2018-09-02 | Ontario
Ashkenaz Festival celebrates Jewish food with free events at HarbourFront Centre and unique dining experiences across Toronto.
From a Bagel Battle to an Immersive Global Shtetl,
This Year’s Festival Has Something for Every Taste!
August 15, 2018. – Toronto, Ontario – This year’s Ashkenaz Festival returns with a robust program spotlighting Jewish food and Jewish culinary culture. From herring, bagels and Montreal smoked meat sandwiches, to more exotic and unexpected fare from northern Italy and the Sephardic diaspora, Ashkenaz will offer a feast for both the mind and taste buds. Matching its diverse and eclectic programming in music, theatre, film, dance, visual arts and literature, Ashkenaz 2018’s food programming is an integral part of this world-renowned celebration of global Jewish performing arts and multiculturalism.
The 2018 Festival’s overall thematic focus on women in Jewish music and culture is well-represented in its food offerings, with an impressive slate of female restaurateurs, food historians and food writers. Over the course of the Labour Day weekend, guests will be treated to a variety of free events all taking place at Miss Lou’s Room at Harbourfront Centre. Learn about the unique foodways of Soviet/Russian Jews with Lea Zeltserman, taste 3 different varieties of pickled herring with Miriam Borden, learn how to make Sephardic desserts with Kat Romanow, pick up culinary tips and wisdom from Judy Perly of the Free Times Café, or participate in a Bagel Battle pitting Toronto, Montreal and NY bagels against each other in a taste-off decided by both audience preference and a celebrity panel. Who will be crowned the Bagel Boss?
While much of the Ashkenaz Festival takes place at Harbourfront Centre, its food program extends across the GTA this year for the first time, with a new program spotlighting Toronto’s reputation as a global music city and cosmopolitan hub where tourists can sample the cultures and foods of diverse communities from around the world. Ashkenaz’s new tourist-oriented experience, Global Shtetl (Global Village), is a series of curated excursions in which participants will enjoy a special meal in one of Toronto’s many unique neighbourhoods, sampling the cuisine of a particular ethno-cultural community whose music or culture will be highlighted within the Festival’s programming. During the meal, participants will be immersed in the sounds, tastes and stories of places around the world through lectures, talks and performances.The five excursions will take place between August 29th and September 2nd and tickets are sold both as a package and individually.
Global Shtetlers will experience “A Taste of Poland in Little Portugal,” with an evening of Polish-Jewish music and food at Lula Lounge (August 29). The following night, Ashkenaz serves up Montreal smoked meat sandwiches alongside its all-Canadian concert tribute to Leonard Cohen at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts (August 30). Friday night of the Festival (August 31) brings a sumptuous and eclectic, multi-course Shabbat evening meal, paired with a jazz-inflected set of music from the virtuosic Sela-Rosenblatt Quartet, based on the traditional sabbath service, “Mizmor Shir.”
The likely favourite for top highlight of the Global Shtetl program will be a unique Italian-Jewish lunch event on Saturday September 1 at Toronto’s newest European food hotspot, Drom Taberna in the Queen West neighbourhood. “Il Profumo Delle Case Buone (The Aroma of Things Good)” will feature a heartfelt performance by Italian singer, musician and playwright Enrico Fink, inspired by the flavors of old family recipes in the cookbook of Jenny Bassani, whose famous family features in Giorgio Bassani’s historical novel (and later feature film) “The Garden of the Finzi Continis.”Enrico Fink’s unique storytelling and music, painting a picture of Italian Jewish life in the city of Ferrara before WWII, provides the perfect appetizer before this delicious, authentic meal from northern Italy. Be prepared to stimulate all your senses!
Global Shtetl wraps up September 2 with a Sunday morning walking tour of Kensington Market, (Toronto’s original Jewish neighbourhood), followed by the “Bella, Did Ya Eat?” Jewish brunch at Free Times Café. With live music by Russian klezmer superstars Dobranotch, and over 40 food items on the buffet (blintzes, latkes, gefilte fish, smoked fish, eggs & onions, chalah french toast, salads galore, and much more), this will be the perfect heymishe(downhome) wrap to the Global Shtetl series.
For Global Shtetl ticket information, and to book your excursion, please visit http://www.ashkenaz.ca/global-shtetl/ or contact bridget@ashkenaz.ca. Full Ashkenaz Festival food program listings are viewable here http://www.ashkenaz.ca/2018-festival/food-2018/
About Ashkenaz Festival
The Ashkenaz Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious showcases of Jewish music and culture anywhere in the world. Since 1995, the festival has taken place biennially at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto’s premier venue for the presentation of world and folk culture and for the meeting of diverse communities through the arts. Originally founded as a showcase for Klezmer and Yiddish music and culture, the Ashkenaz Festival has evolved over the years into an eclectic showcase of global Jewish art and culture, encompassing not merely the traditions of Eastern Europe, but also Sephardic, Mizrachi, and Israeli culture, and all manner of cross-cultural fusion. The Festival is offered 90% free to the public and attracts a multicultural audience of over 60,000 people to 80+ events featuring 250+ individual artists, from across Canada and around the world.

Special Meeting Notice
2018-06-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Tuesday June 26 at Shaarei Shomayim

Starting at 7.30 p.m. prompt

A pre-conference meeting for those attending the IAJGS conference in Warsaw from August 5-10, 2018. We also welcome those who have attended previous IAJGS conferences, and are willing to share their experiences.

Please let us know of your attendance at the pre-conference get together by e-mailing lkelman@jgstoronto.ca.

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Special Meeting Notice
Tuesday June 26 at Shaarei Shomayim, starting at 7:30 pm
The IAJGS Conference in Warsaw

As you are probably aware, the IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies) Conference will be held this year in Warsaw (August 5-10).
We are planning to hold an orientation session in Toronto. This meeting is open to conference participants, and to those still considering registering, as well as past conference attendees. If you have travelled to Poland or Ukraine or other Eastern European countries please join us to share your experiences.
It will be an opportunity to meet with others attending, and to ask questions about previous IAJGS Conferences.
We have not yet finalized an agenda for the session, but are considering the following:

Introduction by each participant
Share travel plans
Share information about side trips to your ancestral shtetl and other places
Comments from those who have attended a previous IAJGS conference
Comments from those who have previously travelled to Eastern Europe
Suggestions for having a great conference experience
etc. etc.

To ensure that we will have enough participants to make the session worthwhile, please RSVP to lkelman@jgstoronto.ca by Monday June 18.

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Central European SIG
2018-06-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
The next Central European SIG will be led by Henry Wellisch and will be at the the Shaarei Shomayim Congregation.

Time 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
June 25, 2018

The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia - Borochov Cultural Centre
2018-06-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Borochov Cultural Centre 272 Codsell Ave., Ontario, Canada
Thursday June 21st, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Borochov Cultural Centre
The Screening of
One Woman’s Journey to explore a Community
Tracing its Secret History back to Biblical Times
Bal Ej The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia
For more info see
http://kulanucanada.org

The Ward Cabaret June 20 to June 22
2018-06-20 - 2018-06-22 | Berkeley St. Theatre 26 Berkeley St., 26 Berkeley St., Toronto, Ontario, M5A2W3, Canada
The Ward Cabaret reimagines the vibrant sound of Toronto’s first multi-cultural neighbourhood. JUNO Award-winning musician and composer David Buchbinder is joined by a collaborative team of musicians, singers, and actors for a musical event based on the songs and sounds of Toronto’s first cross-cultural community.
History is a verb. The passage of time is a constant. But what we seek to preserve from our past and what we choose to cast away has always been a selective process often informed by unexamined motives and biases.
— MICHAEL MCCLELLAND, THE WARD (CO-EDITOR)

The Ward was a Lower East Side-like enclave shared for over a century by Irish, African-Canadians, Italians, Eastern European Jews and Chinese. A dense corner of the city that officials saw as a crime-ridden slum in need of reform, The Ward was home to waves of immigrants who settled there, started businesses and religious institutions, learned English, hawked newspapers, ran speakeasies, restaurants and laundries, started theatres, and generally tried to fit in. When these newcomers came to Toronto, they left much behind, but brought with them great cultural treasures: stories, songs, music and traditions.
Inspired by The Ward (Coach House Books), Buchbinder first gathered a group of stellar Toronto artists to create The Ward Cabaret in 2016. After selling out at Soulpepper and Lula Lounge, the book’s editors, along with Buchbinder, Marjorie Chan, Andrew Craig, and Michael Occhipinti – three musicians and a playwright representing four of the five cultures of The Ward – are reimagining the songs, music and stories of The Ward in order to explore the cultural roots of what has become the most diverse city on the planet.

https://luminatofestival.com/2018/Events/The-Ward-Cabaret

The Ward Uncovered
2018-06-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Toronto Reference Library
Interesting archeological discoveries were made when the foundation for a new courthouse was excavated adjacent to Toronto City Hall. The findings included privies, the foundation of row houses built by former Afro American slaves during the 1800s, and other interesting objects left behind by the diverse inhabitants (Jews, Italians, Irish, Chinese) of the much maligned area once known as “The Ward”.
June 19, 2018
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Toronto Reference Library
Yonge St., just north of Bloor St.

DNA SIG Meeting
2018-06-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The DNA SIG will meet on June 14th at the Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive
Time: 7:30 pm

Brick Walls and Breakthroughs
2018-06-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
BRICK WALLS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
Shaarei Shomayim, 470 Glencairn Avenue, Toronto
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Doors open at 7:30 pm

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto offers the much anticipated Brick Walls and Breakthroughs for 2018!

Les Kelman (originally Kelmansky) knew about his grandfather (born 1870 in Ukraine – died Glasgow 1945). He even had a “name” for his great-grandfather. But that was the end of the road. Then he obtained the 1858 Revision List for Pogrebishche, Ukraine, with lots of Kelmanskys, but still no way of filling the gap between 1858 and 1870. Les will share how he discovered a link that enabled his research to go back in time to 1775.
Les has been an active member of JGS Toronto since the early 1990s and served as President of our Society (2013-2016) and as the Programme Committee Chair for many years.
Merle Langbord Levine’s grandparents were influential in her upbringing and encouraged her desire to go after her roots and heritage. Google and My Heritage autosomal DNA testing results led her to a distant cousin living in Florida. Merle was able to trace her family back to the mid-1700s and obtain new information as to where the family lived in Poland. She also discovered what happened to the family during the Holocaust, providing details never disclosed to her Langbord grandparents.
Merle has presented at JGS Toronto on several occasions. She is a professional educator who is in private practice tutoring students.
Neil Richler’s presentation is entitled “Using Family and Online Resources to Track a Distant Branch of Long Lost Family”. Neil’s success came about as a result of an interview with his great-grandfather and by using current online genealogical resources.
Neil has been a Society member since 1992 when he began his family research. He has presented various workshops for JGS Toronto and has served as a JGS Board member for over twenty years serving as the long-time Membership Coordinator.

The Rescue - The Story of Jose Arturo Castelanos “The Latin American Wallenburg”
2018-06-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Adath Israel Congregation, 37 Southbourne Ave., Toronto, 37 Southbourne Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Story of Jose Arturo Castelanos…..The Latin American Wallenberg

THE RESCUE: A LIVE FILM-CONCERTO
with a live soundtrack performed by a Latin American ensemble

As part of this outstanding film-concerto, Adath Israel will be displaying the exhibitBeyond Duty , sponsored by the Government of Israel. You are invited to view the exhibit between June 9 – June 25 in the lobby outside the Main Sanctuary.

The Beyond Duty exhibit is dedicated to the Righteous Among the Nations and to the Holocaust survivors whose courage and resilience continues to inspire us. The term “Righteous Among the Nations” refers to gentiles who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, has recognized more than twenty-six thousand individuals as Righteous Among the Nations, including thirty-six diplomats, one of whom was José Castellanos, the subject of the film The Rescue .

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Lithuania SIG
2018-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lithuania SIG meeting at the Family History Center, 24 Ferrand Drive, Don Mills.

Topic: Judy Kasman outlines how she achieved success in her Litvak research.
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
