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  • Remembering Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert and his 'two Londons'

    Jerry Amernic, JNS.org|Feb 20, 2015

    He didn't have to be helpful. He didn't know me or anything about me, only that I had an idea for a novel about the last living survivor of the Holocaust, and wanted to speak to him. He was intrigued, so he agreed to sit down with me after his lecture at the University of Western Ontario in London. Make that London, Ontario, a Canadian city of 350,000 people 120 miles west of Toronto. Sir Martin Gilbert, who just passed away at the age of 78, was one of the world's eminent historians and quite...