Ruta’s Closet Newsline
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New email contact address
You can still use the Feedback tab to submit brief inquiries and observations. However, if you wish to submit files or images for viewing by Keith Morgan, please send your messages to info@rutascloset.com
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Hitting the Book Podcast trail
Thank you Cyrus for shining a bright light on Ruta’s Closet during your chat with me for your excellent book show. Give it a listen and watch out for upcoming appearances on a variety of book-focused podcasts. Looking forward to talking to Deirdre Pippins for her excellent Bookaholic Podcast.
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Ruta’s Closet: Massive online campaign mounted targeting book clubs.
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…
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What does A.I. think of Ruta’s Closet?
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,…
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Wilfully ignoring the message of Ruta’s Closet
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…
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Sensitive content warning
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
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Only three of these children survived the Holocaust
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…
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Ruta’s powerful story now an immersive audio recording
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…
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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…
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