Robert Eli Rubinstein

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Mar 31, 2020, 12:23 AM

Contagion: Unlocking a Family Mystery

Sometimes it takes a cataclysm for us to see what is lying before us in full view. My father, Béla Rubinstein of blessed memory, was born in 1908 in the bucolic village of Szentistván in northeastern Hungary. By the time...

Oct 16, 2018, 9:58 PM

On September 19, 1948, the S.S. Sobieski docked at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Among the passengers on the recommissioned cargo ship were my parents, Béla and Judit Rubinstein, and my uncle and aunt, Dezső and Vera Rubinstein....

Apr 12, 2015, 5:21 AM

Who now will bear witness?

After his mother survived Auschwitz, the first kindness she encountered came from a group of US soldiers

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About Me

Robert Eli Rubinstein, a businessman and communal leader in Toronto, Canada, is the author of An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada, an award-winning account of his survivor parents’ reconstruction of their shattered lives after the War.