He was born in the town of Bialystok, Poland. The day the German Army invaded his country on September 1, 1939 he was visiting Warsaw. Instead of returning home, he enlisted in...
Max Stern was a German-Canadian arts benefactor, art historian and owner of Montreal’s landmark Dominion Gallery. Born in Germany in 1904, to a father who was a prestigious art...
When we immigrated to Canada after the Second World War, we settled in Montreal, more accurately in the City of Westmount, a town within a town, an enclave of Anglo-Saxon...
THEN When, in 1947, my family was forced to leave our native land, Hungary, all but one of us became Stateless Aliens with no valid passports. I traveled internationally on the...
People don’t resist change; they resist being changed. Put yourself in the place of an elderly person living alone who wakes up every morning feeling insecure, knowing he or she...
It is October again – a dangerous as well as a beautifully melancholy time for me. Dangerous, because bad things tend to happen in my life during the Fall and beautiful because,...
In my last blog I told you about my love for Tango, but I did not mention Buenos Aires even once, even though that city is the Tango capital of the world. My reason? Buenos Aires...
I don’t know why, but whenever I hear the urgent strains of Tango Libre composed by Astor Piazzolla I get the goose-bumps. The first time ever that I heard Tango music was in...
My Italian friends kept insisting that my family name – LANDORI – originated in the general area around the Torrente Landori, a small waterway in Sicily’s Agrigento...
During the early 1970s, the question of the language of air traffic control in Canada was often discussed by the francophone controllers in Quebec City. Because the unit was small...
