JGS Hybrid Event -- President Emeritus Henry Wellisch - 100th Birthday
2022-09-18 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
JGS Hybrid Event — President Emeritus Henry Wellisch – 100th BirthdayJoin us to honour Henry Wellisch, our President Emeritus, on his 100th Birthday
Hybrid MEETING:
Participate in person at Sha’arei Shomayim
OR
View from home
Sunday, 18 September 2022, 10:30 AM
Henry Wellisch will respond to questions from Neil Richler, and then from the audience
Born in Vienna in 1922 Henry Wellisch and his parents fled Austria in December 1939, after the outbreak of World War II. On route by way of the Danube to the Black Sea and then the Mediterranean, they sought entry to Palestine. Instead British authorities sent them to Mauritius where they remained for the duration of the War. In 1945 Henry joined the Jewish Brigade and fought briefly in Europe and then left for Palestine in 1946. He joined the fledgling Israeli Army and served during the War of Independence in 1948. In 1952, age 30, Henry emigrated to Canada where he has lived ever since. Henry will share his many experiences with us.
Also, Daniel Horwitz, on behalf of the Israel Genealogical Research Association, will outline genealogical resources in Israel covering the 1939-1952 period.
If you will be participating in person, please let us know by e-mailing program@jgstoronto.ca
If you will be viewing from home, to register, please go to JGStoronto.ca/register

You will then receive an immediate acknowledgement plus the link to access the event on 24 April.
The presentation will be recorded. It will be available to JGS Toronto members in the “Members Only” section of the Society website a few days after the event. It will also be available to non-member registrants for one week after the event in the “Registration” location.
www.jgstoronto.ca
Tel 647-247-6414 twitter: jgsoftoronto
facebook: Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
Before the meeting attendees should download and read Henry’s personal story ESCAPE FROM VIENNA

JGS Toronto Event *** Cancelled "He thought that his family was wiped out in the Holocaust
2022-10-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Due to illness Mr. Cilevitz has had to cancel. Please monitor our website for a rescheduling of this event.
Ralph Cilevitz will relate the story of how he discovered new connections and relatives. If you will be viewing from home go to http://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/register
There are over 75,000 descendants of the same man, Aba Kukla, who lived in a tiny shtetl in Lithuania in the late 1700s. His nine children went on to produce large families of their own, creating a sprawling family tree that, only now, with the advent of DNA testing, can be fully visualized.
Ralph has made it his mission to track down all possible relatives in Canada and abroad. His tree is still growing. It may now be the largest documented Ashkenazi family in the world.
