US EditionHolocaust survivor Ruth Kron Sigal recognized with Vancouver honour, memoir reissue
- The City of Vancouver has proclaimed April 9 as Ruth Kron Sigal Day to honor her efforts in raising awareness about Holocaust atrocities in Lithuania during World War II.
- Ruth Sigal, a Holocaust survivor, passed away in December 2008, and her memoir 'Ruta's Closet' is being reissued with new research by Keith Morgan.
- Keith Morgan, who promised Sigal he would complete her book, expressed gratitude for celebrating her life and announced plans for additional resources accompanying the book's re-release.
- Support for Sigal continues as Morgan plans to honor her during the city’s declaration ceremony.
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Albrecht Weinberg is one of the last German Shoah survivors. In February of this year he returned his Federal Cross of Merit. Out of frustration over the right turn in Germany.
Three municipalities in the northeast of Groningen were remarkably calculating in their handling of the homes and other real estate of their Jewish residents during and after the Second World War. This is evident from research by the University of Groningen (RUG), which was presented today in the synagogue of Appingedam. Sometimes they expropriated the homes before it was known whether the deported residents would return. The research also shows…
Holocaust survivor Ruth Kron Sigal recognized with Vancouver honour, memoir reissue
The City of Vancouver will proclaim April 9 Ruth Kron Sigal day to recognize her efforts to ensure younger generations know about the atrocities against Jewish people in Lithuania during the Second World War
The Hamilton Spectator
Holocaust survivor Ruth Sigal recognized with Vancouver honour, memoir reissue
A Holocaust survivor who dedicated her life to raising awareness about the horrors her family endured before moving to Canada is getting a special honour in Vancouver today.
Hidden in Haute-Savoie during the Second World War because a Jew, Lazare Silbermann (whose name will be changed to Claude Silvestre by his parents) was never able to tell his children his tragic story. First by choice, then by illness. This did not prevent his son, Benjamin Silvestre, from interested in it and from making it an intimate and upsetting film. A story that will be projected at the Morette Deportation Memorial on April 27th.
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