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This website provides links to various resources, including articles, books, and films authored by Eli Rubenstein, a Holocaust educator, writer, and filmmaker based in Toronto.
Eli Rubenstein has been the religious leader of Congregation Habonim of Toronto since 1988. He is currently also the Director of Education for
International March of the Living, and Director Emeritus of March of the Living Canada. He has been dedicated to Holocaust education through storytelling, producing films, writing stories, articles, sermons, and public speaking.
Eli Rubenstein first encountered Elie Wiesel on the 1990 March of the Living. Read the article, The Day Words Failed Elie Wiesel The Canadian Jewish News.
Forever will I see the children who no longer have the strength to cry. Forever will I see the elderly who no longer have the strength to help them. Forever will I see the mothers and the fathers, the grandfathers and grandmothers, the little schoolchildren…their teachers…the righteous and the pious…. From where do we take the tears to cry over them? Who has the strength to cry for them?
Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor, Nobel Prize Peace winner, speaking
at the 1999 March of the Living ceremony.