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Ellin Bessner

Aug 5, 2018, 3:26 PM

The 1951 consecration ceremony by the Jewish Community of Glasgow for the official gravestones belonging to Nathan Dlusy, and a half dozen other Allied Jewish military men who were killed while serving in Scotland during the Second World War. (Courtesy Jon Dlusy)

How a Canadian airman was buried in the Scottish Jewish cemetery 74 years ago

About Me

Ellin Bessner is a journalist and professor at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. Her new book, "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and WWII" tells the story of how Canada's tiny wartime Jewish community mobilized manpower, money, and even matzah to help the Allies win WWII.