Kalman Bar-on

Enduring horrors together

photo - On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Richard Lowy shared his father Leo’s story at Congregation Schara Tzedeck

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Richard Lowy shared his father Leo’s story at Congregation Schara Tzedeck. (photo © Silvester Law) On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Richard Lowy stood in the spot where his late father, Leopold Lowy, davened and kibitzed…

Unique testimony on stage

photo - Kalman Bar-On, left, and Leopold Lowy at their reunion in 2002

Kalman Bar-On, left, and Leopold Lowy at their reunion in 2002. (photo from Richard Lowy) An SS guard walked down the line of prisoners gathered for roll call at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and randomly picked two boys out of the…

Recollecting Auschwitz

image - The Story of Kalman & Leopold poster

Recollections of day-to-day details at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by survivor Kalman Bar-on are being made public for the first time in Canada at an International Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation in Vancouver on Jan. 26 at the Rothstein Theatre. The Story…