Tuesday, August 12 at 1p.m.Dr. Leon Kagan was born and raised in Edmonton Alberta by his parents Paul and Clara Kagan. He graduated from Talmud Torah in Edmonton and later went to the University of Alberta to study medicine, initially beginning as a family doctor and eventually becoming a geriatric psychiatrist. His mother was a holocaust survivor from Poland who spent most of the war in a Soviet work camp in Kazakhstan before coming to Canada in 1948 with her two brothers and later was joined by her parents.
Clara settled with her family in Edmonton and married Paul Kagan at the old Beth Israel synagogue in Edmonton in 1951. Paul Kagan was a holocaust survivor from Vilna, Lithuania. Clara passed away in April,2024 and Paul died October, 2008. Today Leon will tell the story of his father’s life, detailing his courage to survive amongst the unspeakable horrors of the holocaust.