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Exploring intergenerational inheritance, identity & resilience to foster deeper understanding and dialogue. Margaret’s Legacy dedicated to continuously re-envisioning how we teach the Holocaust and antisemitism to the next generation. Through a values-based lens we explore intergenerational inheritance and how history continues to shape identity, memory, resilience and lived experience across gene
06/02/2026
We are so thankful for all the incredible feedback we’ve been getting about ‘s memoir My Dearest Children! Mostly it’s been through DMs but hopefully soon we will start to see more reviews on &
If you’re one of our ARC readers and have finished reading, we would love for you to share your thoughts. It’s been REALLY busy and exciting 2 weeks since the launch. So much going on! Can’t wait to share more about everything soon. Stay tuned!!
05/18/2026
Here are some long awaited photos from our magical book launch last week!! More videos will be posted soon. Thank you so much for capturing the event so brilliantly!
Check out our newest blog (link in bio) for lots more pics, a descriptive recap of our event and ways you can get involved in helping My Dearest Children reach the people who could really benefit from reading it 🤍🤍🤍
05/13/2026
Writing My Dearest Children has been deeply meaningful, but also emotionally intense. One of the biggest lessons of this journey has been learning that caring for others also means learning how to care for myself.
For that reason, I’ll be stepping back from social media a little more during this season. Please know this does not mean I don’t want to hear from you. Your messages, stories, emails and encouragement have meant more to me than I can express.
My daughter Sari and my communications lead, Rebecca, will be helping manage messages and comments on social media while keeping me connected to meaningful conversations and opportunities. If you want to reach me personally I’m still checking emails 😉
Thank you all for walking this journey with me so thoughtfully. 🤍🤍🤍
05/10/2026
Mother’s Day has felt very different for me these last few years.
Since losing my dad, I find myself holding onto my mom much tighter. Appreciating her more than ever. Every day I become more in awe of her strength and the quiet ways she carries pain while still showing up fully for the people she loves.
The day before my book launch, my uncle Sheldon, my mom’s brother, who I grew up very close with, passed away. I truly didn’t expect my mother to come to the launch that night. I would have completely understood if she couldn’t. My mother walked in stoic and proud, exactly as she always does. Fully present. Fully there for me while carrying her own grief.
The next day we stood together again, this time at the funeral and shiva, sharing stories and mourning someone we loved so deeply.
Loss has a way of making us hold on tighter to the people who are still here. I’m grateful for my mom and the three incredible humans who made me a mother and continue helping me grow every single day.
Sending love today to those celebrating, grieving, longing, healing, and quietly mothering themselves and others in ways the world may never fully see. ❤️
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(Danna’s son) speaking last night at ‘s friends and family book launch ❤️❤️❤️
It gets cut off after 3 mins but hopefully we will share all the videos on our YouTube channel next week including Danna’s heartfelt words, who shared about the growth of Margaret’s Legacy (and how her childhood curiosity started it all) and (who will be the voice of Danna in the audiobook coming soon), reading a moving chapter excerpt. who is part of our advisory board, closed the evening with more about our next chapter.
Can’t get over the supportive energy in the room. Everyone felt the love so much!
Shout out to for the story love and sharing the link to purchase My Dearest Children. If anyone else has posted please tag us so we can reshare ❤️❤️❤️ Together we are going to get this transformative memoir on countless bookshelves across the globe!
05/07/2026
Can’t believe it!!!! Like seriously!
We left a little gift for all of you on our site (link in bio) as a thank you for all your love and support please download a PDF of our new guide!
Reminder to our advance readers… don’t forget to leave your reviews on & sooner than later 😉
The more early exposure this inspirational book gets the more likely people who could really benefit from it will see it! Thank you so much in advance!!!
If you aren’t on those platforms and have a testimonial we can use for our website please DM us!
You all have been so supportive it’s incredible!! Thank you thank you!! 🙏❤️👏🏻❤️
05/05/2026
It’s the final countdown 🎉🎉🎉
My Dearest Children is available online May 7th!!!
Would love your opinion…
You may have noticed that there are two different covers. If you did, wow! Impressive. You are incredibly attentive to detail lol.
About 6 weeks ago we sent out ARCs (advance reader copies) to a bunch of people and we hadn’t yet had the cover photoshoot. We used an art mockup as a temporary solution and it ended up sparking a little team debate.
Half of us loved the ARC cover and the other half of our team is obsessed with the new cover we decided to use for the first edition.
So this is our quasi beta test:
So curious… Which cover do you like better?
05/04/2026
is so honoured to collaborate with the talented , who just finished their two night performance of the opera Two Remain composed by at the
In the first photo, & had a meaningful visit last month with producer and founders of JVM & reviewing their powerful mission. Danna presented them with advance reader copies of her memoir, My Dearest Children, and they shared more about their musical productions and mission, and the rest was (Jewish) history, as they say.
Jewish Voices in Music is a nonprofit organization committed to preserving and elevating Jewish voices through music. Through performance and education, they share stories of resilience, memory, and identity - ensuring they are carried forward with dignity and power. They believe music can transcend barriers, uplift communities, and give voice to those too often silenced. Guided by volunteer leadership, they support Jewish and Israeli communities while creating cultural experiences that foster unity, understanding, and belonging.
Our shared mission makes this partnership exceptionally powerful. If you’re not yet following them, you should! This group is heading for !!
Scroll through to see a few pages from their playbill, announcements about upcoming productions and photos from their recent performances.
Other sponsors of Two Remain include .canada among others you can find in the playbill and on their website.
A huge mazel tov to all the talented performers on this great accomplishment 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Welcome everyone who recently started following 👋
We haven’t introduced ourselves in a while, so we will take this opportunity, as we start to celebrate our next chapter (stay tuned for details).
Who We Are
Margaret’s Legacy is an organization dedicated to continuously re-envisioning how we teach the Holocaust and antisemitism to the next generation. Through programs, resources, community engagement, and now our new Holocaust & Advocacy Learning Centre at the , we aim to support deeper understanding across backgrounds and cultures while sparking more helpful and meaningful conversations.
How We Started
Margaret’s Legacy was born in 2008 out of a single question from Danna Horwood’s 11-year-old daughter who was curious about her family’s Holocaust history. Danna was motivated to preserve her grandparents’ story through a documentary that her own young children could understand and learn from. What started as a personal Holocaust education project quickly became something far greater. The film started reaching and inspiring thousands of young people across North America, sparking powerful conversations about antisemitism, resilience, and what it means to stand up to hate.
The documentary, Margaret and Arthur’s Story, chronicles the Weiszes’ experiences during WWII, their escape from Hungary to Canada and their new life in Hamilton. Told through the eyes of living Weisz descendants, this documentary addresses the themes of courage, survival and love, and educates youth about the need for honesty, curiosity and kindness in our world.
05/01/2026
My Dearest Children
Memoir by
Available on kindle pre-order NOW! Link in bio.
Hardcover & paperback available May 7th!
Written as thought provoking letters to her children, My Dearest Children is a new memoir with engaging stories spanning nearly one hundred years of family history, from pre Holocaust to the present day. It blends together themes of courage, survival, identity, motherhood, grief, legacy and the fierce belief that healing is always possible. Danna brilliantly weaves in pop culture, current events and evidence-based sources throughout her personal narrative to help achieve greater emotional depth, a sense of personal connection with readers and to help provide inspiration for the next generation.
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