Universal Lessons From the Holocaust

Sheila Hurtig Robertson

Learn about the Ottawa Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies Project, which features interviews of ten local survivors. The survivors’ experiences include ghettos in Hungary, Nazi slave labour camps in Germany and death camps in Poland, hiding in non-Jewish homes in Holland and France and in a dugout in Ukraine, and surviving as refugees in Romania and Shanghai.

Why We Must Ask Why

Peter Stockland

Even as the world was reacting in horror to the slaughter of innocents in Paris on November 13, Father John Walsh was moving past how and what to asking why.

Faith in Faithless Times

Siby Varghese

Siby Varghese grew up in Saudi Arabia and India, experiencing first hand what it was like to have limits to freedom of religion. When he moved to Canada in 2011, he was shocked to see just how many Canadians didn't excersize their right to worship freely in public. Read his story here.