Ruta’s Closet Newsline

Around 100,000+ book clubs around the world and more than one million readers in the bookclubs.club online community will learn about Ruta’s Closet in the next three months. This massive campaign will be featured on the website’s amazing Great Indie Reads page and also via an email announcement to 500,000 subscribers. The Vancouver Holocaust Education…

In the upcoming Ruta’s Closet Podcast series we explore if there is a role for A.I. in increasing Holocaust awareness. In preparation we took part in a Google-led experiment and uploaded a 870-word narrative synopsis. Listen here to what came back within half an hour! – It was a mock radio show called Deep Dive,…

Much of traditional media has passed on the opportunity to review Ruta’s Closet, now available globally for the first time. Review copies were circulated world-wide last month. Some speculate that “what’s going on in Gaza” is discouraging coverage of a Holocaust-related material. One TV station actually said that it didn’t want to “offend’ viewers. I…

This Interesting review of Ruta’s Closet comes with a Sensitive Content warning. Our belief is that such trigger warnings only pique curiosity in the labelled material . . . . thank goodness! https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/ruta-s-closet-keith-morgan#review

Shavl Ghetto – Friday, November 5th, 1943.Lest we forget, on this day, in 1943, Tamara Kron, was one of an estimated 1,000 children and seniors removed from the Shavl Ghetto in a Nazi Kinderaktion and transported to their deaths in Auschwitz.Tamara was the younger sister of the late Ruth (Ruta) Kron Sigal, who was rescued…

The Ruta’s Closet audiobook version, now available on all major platforms, is gaining positive listener praise. A typical response is “The music soundtrack and careful use of sound effects enhances and already gripping story.” Yes, indeed author Keith Morgan, the narrator, and producer Bill Barnes laboured long and hard in the studio for most of…

Keith Morgan’s appearance on the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Book Talk” virtual event is now available for viewing on YouTube at https://youtu.be/3QsOHMGN6EEKeith says: “Show host Robert Sarner was a pleasure to talk to and clearly showed he had done his research prior to the interview.“I look forward to doing more similarly formatted Zoom events…

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre has presented the 2025 Meyer and Gita Kron and Ruth Kron Sigal Award, to Chantel Parsons, recognizing her outstanding contribution to Holocaust education in BC,Chantel is a geography and history teacher at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School in the Comox Valley. Her Genocide 12 course is one of the school’s…

The VHEC has appointed Hannah Marazzi as the new Executive Director.Hannah has been a driving force behind the Centre since joining in 2023, and has led as Acting ED since fall 2024. With over a decade of experience in human rights advocacy and Holocaust remembrance, her appointment reflects the Board’s unanimous confidence in her vision…

Keith Morgan was honoured to receive a Life Fellow Award at the 2025 Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre annual meeting.Keith was described as “an acclaimed journalist, (who) has helped preserve Holocaust memory through his writing, including the memoir Ruta’s Closet.” An award also bestowed on survivor and artist Sidi Schaffer, who has used her creativity and…