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The Greatest Generation Live PodcastEscape from Dachau – A Story of Survival and ResistanceJoin the Veterans Breakfast Club for a powerful evening conversation with Susan Servais, daughter of the late Kathe Mueller Slonim, author of Escape from Dachau: A True Story of Survival, Courage, and a Daring Escape in the Face of Unthinkable Evil. In this riveting program, we’ll explore one family’s astonishing true story of rescue and resilience in the face of Nazi tyranny.
Also joining us will be Dachau survivor Nate Leipciger who will tell his story and Dachau liberator Hilbert Margol a member of the 42nd Division who participated in the liberation of Dachau.
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2025-08-111h 49
Zoomer Week in ReviewJuly 5 2025-A New Sepsis-Testing Tool & Nate Leipciger Appointed to Order of CanadaJuly 5 2025-A New Sepsis-Testing Tool & Nate Leipciger Appointed to Order of Canada
The World Health Organization has declared Sepsis a global health crisis and a trio of Canadian researchers has developed a new blood test that can detect the infection in hours instead of days. Dr. Claudia do Santos, a physician and scientist at Toronto’s St Mike’s hospital, says her research was spurred on by the case of a 22-year old man with pneumonia. She spoke with guest host Kathy Hyde.
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Nate Leipcigar has led an extraordinary life: a survivor of Auschwitz, he emigrated to Canada after the...
2025-07-0521 min
Fight Back with Libby ZnaimerIt Is Election Season in OntarioZOOMER SQUAD: IT IS ELECTION SEASON IN ONTARIO
Libby Znaimer is joined by Anthony Quinn, Chief Operating Officer of CARP, Bill VanGorder, Advocacy and Education Officer at CARP and John Wright, a veteran pollster.
We get reaction from the Zoomer Squad about Ontario Premier Doug Ford's confirmation that he will be calling an election this Wednesday.
THE LATEST ON THE FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADERSHIP RACE
Libby Znaimer is joined by Bob Richardson, a Public Affairs Consultant and Will Stewart, a Conservative Strategist and Senior Vice President with Enterprise Canada.
We talk about the latest developments of the federal Liberal leadership race and M...
2025-01-2751 min
North Star with Ellin BessnerThis year’s March of the Living commemoration marred by ‘Stop the Genocide’ protestsOrganizers of the 36th annual March of the Living commemoration, in Poland, knew that this year’s three-kilometre walk at Auschwitz would feel even more poignant after Oct. 7.
That’s why some Israeli Holocaust survivors were invited to join the procession, which honoured not just the memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust—but also the 1,200 people in Israel who were murdered in the single worst slaughter of Jews since 1945. Yet it appears some groups in Poland weren’t willing to allow the annual March of the Living to proceed without conflating the ongoing Middle East war...
2024-05-0722 min
Search for DaasNate Leipciger - Holocaust survivor on the Shoah and Hamas’ attack on Israel Meet Nate Leipciger, a 95 year old Holocaust survivor who lives in Toronto. Nate was born in Poland in 1928 and when he was 15 years old, he entered Auschwitz. Nate is one of the 11% of European Jewish children under sixteen who lived to see the end of WWII. This number drops to only 1% when you consider Polish Jewish children. Put another way, 89% of Jews (and 99% of Polish Jews) under sixteen were murdered and robbed of the chance to live and shape our world. In other words, Nate is a miracle. Not only is it a miracle that he survived the Holocaust...
2023-10-262h 00
The Living Jewishly PodcastA Survivor from Irish Lake“Life is for the living. You have to go on, and make the best you can out of your present situation and utilize your tools”— Nate LeipcigerMental health is a different story across generations, and on today’s episode of What’s In Your Toolbox: An Honest Discussion on Mental Health, host Bobby K. has a conversation with Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger about the tools he cultivated to survive. One of Nate’s survival skills, awareness, helped him during his time in Auschwitz, and then in his early yea...
2023-09-2852 min
No Magic Bullet Podcast - An Honest Discussion on Mental HealthA Survivor from Irish LakeSHOW NOTES “Life is for the living. You have to go on, and make the best you can out of your present situation and utilize your tools”— Nate LeipcigerMental health is a different story across generations, and on today’s episode of What’s In Your Toolbox: An Honest Discussion on Mental Health, host Bobby K. has a conversation with Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger about the tools he cultivated to survive. One of Nate’s survival...
2023-09-2652 minNorth Star with Ellin BessnerThe chilling new Toronto Holocaust museum is ready for a post-survivor worldThe new $30-million dollar Toronto Holocaust Museum officially opened on June 9, with some of the Holocaust survivors who worked so hard to make this facility a reality in attendance. Nate Leipciger, 95, cut the ceremonial ribbon and dedicated the new museum to his late parents and sister, Polish Jews who were deported to Auschwitz. (His father did survive.)
The new Toronto Holocaust Museum uses modern technology, including augmented reality, to put the voices of the survivors front and centre for visitors—an especially important feature as Holocaust education is approaching a “post-survivor” world.
Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, and other politici...
2023-06-1231 minNorth Star with Ellin BessnerMeet the Jewish artist painting Holocaust and residential school survivorsRobbie Waisman is a well-known speaker on Holocaust education. When he was 11, he was forced to worked in a munitions factory in Poland; by 14 he was sent to Buchenwald, where he was grouped in the same cohort of teenagers as Elie Weisel. His parents and four brothers were killed in the Holocaust.
Eugene Arcand, meanwhile, is now an official with Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and also speaks widely about his experiences as a forced Indian residential school student in Saskatchewan for 11 years.
For a few years now, Waisman and Arcand have been joining fo...
2021-06-2113 min
Preconceived57. The Holocaust - A Survivor's InsightsNate Leipciger survived the Holocaust over 75 years ago. Like millions of others, Nate's world as he knew it was thrown into unimaginable upheaval. His mother and sister were murdered in Auschwitz, and he experienced traumas that are impossible for most of us to comprehend. Nate has since dedicated much of his life to Holocaust education and awareness and is one of the most preeminent Canadian speakers on the topic. Nate joins the podcast to share his insights on what happened so long ago and some lessons and perspectives that have guided him through his life. Hosted on Acast. See...
2020-07-141h 01
The Avrum Rosensweig ShowEpisode 22 -- Nate Leipciger: Man is Basically Good.Nate Leipciger sits across from me at my dining-room table. He is a young man of 91 years. He is a Holocaust Survivor. It is moments like this when I feel most alive, most real, as I am joined by someone who has vast awareness, who is highly inspiring.
Nate was eleven when his the hell called the Holocaust began. His personal road took him through ghettos, death camps and ultimately to Auschwitz. He was grabbed away from the safety he called home. He was stripped, de-loused and humiliated. All of this persecution happened right next to his fa...
2019-05-3100 min