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Annual Wallenberg Day To Salute Support for Ukrainian Refugees
January 22, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
The eighteenth annual Raoul Wallenberg Day in support of Civil Courage on January 22, 2023, will feature a salute to the humanitarian individuals and organizations assisting refugees from Ukraine since the start of Russia’s attack. The featured speaker is Marina Sonkina, a Vancouver writer and educator with family relations in Ukraine and Russia. Ms Sonkina volunteered to assist refugees at the Polish border with the Joint Distribution Committee, a leading Jewish humanitarian organization founded in 1914, which is being honoured at the meeting.
Gary Segal, a member of the JDC board, will also speak. Videos documenting JDC work on location will also be shown.
This in-person public event will be held Sunday, January 22, at 1:30 pm, at Congregation Beth Israel, 989 W 28th Ave at Oak Street, Vancouver.
Raoul Wallenberg Day in January honours the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and Japanese vice-consul Chiune Sugihara, who courageously rescued thousands from murder by the Nazis in World War Two, and is officially recognized by the City of Vancouver. The annual day is put on by the Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society.
Honouring the Joint Distribution Committee’s courageous support of Ukrainian refugees, at the 18th annual Wallenberg Day in support of Civil Courage
Featured speaker is Marina Sonkina, on assisting refugees at the Ukraine/Polish border
Sunday, January 22, 2023, 1:30 p.m. Free of charge.
Congregation Beth Israel, 989 W 28th Ave at Oak St., Vancouver
For more information, https://www.wsccs.ca/
Contact Alan Le Fevre, wscivilcourage@gmail.com