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Resilience: Transcending Victimization  Myra’s TEDxMontreal presentation was posted on Jan 17, 2016. Holocaust survivors are ordinary people who have lived extraordinary lives. They experienced the dark side of humanity and have much to teach us about adaptation, resilience and recovery. Using a strengths-based approach, Myra Giberovitch explains how we can change our... Read More

Supposedly it takes a village to raise a child. I also learned that it takes a village to help speakers prepare for a TED talk. In May 2015, Katy Yam, co-producer of TEDxMontreal, approached me to meet with her and Christian Porowski, a member of the Curation Team, to discuss a talk based on my work with survivors of genocide. We met for two and a half hours at a nearby coffee shop... Read More

In recent weeks all political parties in the Quebec National Assembly expressed solidarity with the Quebec Jewish community and unanimously passed a motion condemning the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe and Montreal. In an underground garage in a Montreal suburb, cars were vandalized with swastikas and envelopes containing bullets and threats were placed on their... Read More

Cheryl Bender, coordinator of Jewish West Island Family Institute (WIFI), approached me last August to share her idea to have an artist paint 18 canvases about Holocaust survivor experiences. I liked her idea and wanted to involve members from the Drop-in Centre for Holocaust Survivors at the Cummings Centre. The members became excited about this opportunity for two reasons: first,... Read More