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How an 85-year-old Canadian Holocaust survivor is riding out the Israel-Iran war in a Jerusalem hotel

JL;DR SUMMARY 85-year-old Canadian Holocaust survivor Eva Kuper finds resilience amidst conflict while stranded in Jerusalem with a student group due to the Israel-Iran war. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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JerusalemJewish EducationHolocaust SurvivorResilienceMontrealIsrael Iran ConflictFederation CjaEva KuperStudent DelegationTiktok Videos

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"But instead of boarding a plane back to Montreal, which they were expected to do Monday, the Montrealers, 65 of them plus chaperones, found themselves confined and on an unexpected extended stay at their Jerusalem hotel, taking shelter from deadly Iranian missiles and the answering IDF Iron Dome shooting them down."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The Montrealers, 65 of them plus chaperones, found themselves confined and on an unexpected extended stay at their Jerusalem hotel, taking shelter from deadly Iranian missiles and the answering IDF Iron Dome shooting them down."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"She was born in 1940 in Warsaw and lived in the ghetto with her parents until 1942 when the Nazis rounded up her mother and Eva, who was two years old."
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Retrieved 2025-06-19 05:30:49 UTC
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