Bernard Pinsky in conversation with Belle Jarniewski

The Winnipeg launch of  Ordinary, Extraordinary: My Father's Life about longtime Winnipeg resident and Holocaust speaker Rubin Pinsky. Rubin fled a Nazi work camp in May 1942 and survived for more than two years in the forests of Poland, serving as a teenage Jewish partisan.

A former yeshivah student, Pinsky blew up trains, sabotaged telephone wires and killed Nazis and collaborators. One time, he even finished off a timber wolf attempting to hunt a wild rabbit the starving partisans had called dibs on, so to speak—they needed the game for their own next meal.

This gripping biography was written by his son Bernard Pinsky, a former Winnipegger and community leader in Vancouver who will graciously offer one copy of the book to each family attending the event. 

Presented by the Jewish Heritage Centre and Jewish Child and Family Service.

Limited transportation available. Please call JCFS (204) 477-7430.