Semer Ensemble – Rescued Treasure

 “’Rescued Treasure’ qualifies as this year’s most important piece of Jewish cultural history.” -Aaron Howard On Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, Jewish businesses were burnt and destroyed across Germany, including the stock and masters of the Semer label. Its rich recording catalogue was lost forever: a precious time capsule of a

Message from the German Ambassador to Canada on an Exciting Initiative to Mark the Fall of the Berlin Wall

 By Ambassador Werner Wnendt, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany This year marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a wall constructed to divide Germany – a tangible symbol of oppression of a communist regime, separating its people from a land of opportunity and regrowth. In