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Erin Minuk wins Mina Rosner Human Rights Award
The Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada is pleased to announce that Erin Minuk, a grade 12 student at the Gray Academy of Winnipeg is the 2011 recipient of the Mina Rosner Human Rights Award for her essay, Lighting the Match Within. The late MIna Rosner was born in Buchach, now in the Ukraine. During the Holocaust she witnessed her friends, family and community ruthlessly exterminated by the Nazis. The sole survivor of her family, she moved to Winnipeg in 1948. More...

Click here to read Erin's essay. (PDF)

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Picture: Left to right - Cecil Rosner, Erin Minuk holding Mina Rosner's book, "I am a Witness" and Belle Millo.

  Cecil Rosner, Erin Minuk holding Mina Rosner's book, "I am a Witness" and Belle Millo.

 

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