Peace Medal recipients: the Global Connect class from Dundas Valley Secondary School planned and executed a full-day conference for more than 700 participants, managing everything from logistics to programming. Their work demonstrated not only initiative, but a deep commitment to learning, collaboration, and impact. Margaret's Legacy participated in and presented at the conference and supported the students leading up to it.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL By Jessie Schoenberg Anna Schoenberg with her grandchildren Lauren, Dana & Jessie In The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank wrote at age thirteen; “It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart

This Father’s Day, I hope that fathers will take time to truly reflect on the values that will one day become their legacy.

What’s all the Controversy About? When @Eva.Stories (a series of Instagram stories inspired by the real-life journal of Eva Heyman ) was first released on Sunday with the trailer "What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?", the team at Margaret’s Legacy received an outpouring of e-mails and messages asking if we had seen the trailer and what our thoughts were about the concept. Because we are known as leaders in Holocaust education geared specifically to youth, many as

KEEPING MY MOTHER'S STORY ALIVE By Georgina Rosenberg Growing up as a child of survivors is different to say the least. I, unfortunately, spent a great deal of my early life focused on all the things that made me different from my middle-class Canadian school mates, friends and neighbors. After all, we are different. There is no denying that. How can we not be different from those that didn’t endure the Holocaust? Only now, as an adult, can I remotely understand what a grea

FOUR GENERATIONS OF INSPIRATION By Wendy Schneider Editor of The Hamilton Jewish News Jacob Goldblatt (TL), Frank Goldblatt (TR), Marvin Goldblatt (BL), Wendy Schneider (BR) My life has been significantly impacted by the values my parents and grandparents instilled in me. My family story begins in the early days of the 20th century with the arrival in Hamilton of my great-grandfather Jacob Goldblatt. Like many Eastern European Jewish immigrants of his generation, Jacob starte