The Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation

04/15/2022

Registration for the 30th annual Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide from April 4th to April 8th, 2022👇

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06/05/2014

The extraordinary story of Leo Goldberger, who like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent N**i roundup in 1943.

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/religion/2013/09/03/it-can-be-done-rosh-hashanah-1943-escape-of-danish-jews

(JNS.org) – As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other…

06/05/2014

"Danish Jews survived Hitler’s rule in World War II, when other European Jews did not, because Danes regarded their Jewish neighbors as countrymen. There was no “us” and “them;” there was just us."

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115670/denmark-holocaust-bo-lidegaards-countrymen-reviewed

The surprising truth about Denmark in the Holocaust

05/29/2014

On April 28th the Danish rescuer Dr. Hans Moeller, past president of the CSF, was attending the Commemoration at Vanier College. Also seen on the picture are the immediate past president, Dr. Yaple-Schobert, and the current intern, Florian F. Windberger, in the middle.

05/29/2014

On February 12th, at the monthly luncheon held by the Danish Club of Montreal, Naomi Kramer was introduced as the incoming President of the Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation. Attendant guests included the outgoing president of the CSF, Derek Yaple-Schobert, as well as Elisa Pylkkanen, treasurer of the Finish Society of Montreal (Montreal Suomalainen).