The CSF provides assistance to qualified and talented young Canadians who want to study or work in a
The Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation was established on 20 June 1950 as a national, non-profit organization with the express purpose of providing assistance and support to qualified and talented young Canadians of university age planning a study semester or a research visit to one or more of the Nordic countries, be it Iceland in the North Atlantic, Denmark in the South, Finland in the East, Norway on the Atlantic, or Sweden on the Baltic.
04/15/2022
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06/05/2014
The extraordinary story of Leo Goldberger, who like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent N**i roundup in 1943.
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/religion/2013/09/03/it-can-be-done-rosh-hashanah-1943-escape-of-danish-jews
‘It can be done’: Rosh Hashanah 1943 escape of Danish Jews | Jewish Tribune (JNS.org) – As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other…
06/05/2014
"Danish Jews survived Hitler’s rule in World War II, when other European Jews did not, because Danes regarded their Jewish neighbors as countrymen. There was no “us” and “them;” there was just us."
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115670/denmark-holocaust-bo-lidegaards-countrymen-reviewed
One Country Saved Its Jews. Were They Just Better People? The surprising truth about Denmark in the Holocaust
05/29/2014
On April 28th the Danish rescuer Dr. Hans Moeller, past president of the CSF, was attending the Commemoration at Vanier College. Also seen on the picture are the immediate past president, Dr. Yaple-Schobert, and the current intern, Florian F. Windberger, in the middle.
On February 12th, at the monthly luncheon held by the Danish Club of Montreal, Naomi Kramer was introduced as the incoming President of the Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation. Attendant guests included the outgoing president of the CSF, Derek Yaple-Schobert, as well as Elisa Pylkkanen, treasurer of the Finish Society of Montreal (Montreal Suomalainen).