Ruta’s Closet Newsline
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Book Talk now on YouTube
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…
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Vancouver Island high school teacher honoured
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…
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New leadership announced for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
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…
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Life Fellow Award for Ruta author Keith Morgan
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…
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Book Talk with Keith Morgan
You can register now for the upcoming Book Talk, hosted virtually by the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto.Host Robert Sarner and I will discuss Ruta’s Closet, the Holocaust biography I wrote with the late Ruth Kron Sigal, who survived the Shavl ghetto in Lithuania.The book was released globally recently and now includes…
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust
Documentary film producer Jeffery Giesener has launched a video called ‘Barbarossa’s Closet’, which is based on a Zoom interview with Keith Morgan plus photos and video provided by the Sigal family.Check it out at https://bit.ly/3SIlNx8
Guides to Ruta’s Closet
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre has produced two guides to Ruta’s Closet – downloadable free of charge from here.
The first is a Study Guide designed for high school teachers and the second is Talking Points for book clubs