Survivor of a community erased by Nazis built monuments to the Jews of Wolyn

PHILIP FINE 

There is anger that destroys monuments, and there is anger that builds them. Misha Wajsman's was the construction kind.One of the few survivors from an area of Poland that was marked by death and destruction during the Second World War, he spent most of his life working as a sales manager in a Montreal meat business but felt forever compelled to help build memorials for the thousands of Jews who died in his hometown. He also became a front-line advocate for the Soviet Jewry movement in Canada in the 1970s.

CHARLIE BROWN 86

Ray Eagle 

Charlie Brown was a former U.S Air Force pilot whose encounter with a Luftwaffe pilot who later settled in Canada is one of the few documented acts of chivalry during air combat in the Second World War.

LORNE McLAREN 80

Lorne McLaren was a former Saskatchewan cabinet minister who was convicted of defrauding taxpayers of almost $1-million.The president of a farm-implement manufacturer in Yorkton, he was first elected to the legislature in 1982 and was soon made minister of labour in the Progressive Conservative government of Grant Devine. In 1986, he became government caucus chair and retired in 1991.

LAST WORDS

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.Richard Feynman, physicist,1918-1988