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ESQUESING HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER P.O. Box 51, Georgetown. Halton, Ontario, Canada L7G 4T1 March - April 1991 GEORGETOWN'S MAN OF CONSCIENCE -MORRIS SAXE At the March meeting of the Esquesing Historical Society, our guest will be David Fleishman who will speak on his grandfather, Morris Saxe. In September, Today's Seniors published an article on the CBC documentary which they aired about Saxe. Part of the article follows. It was written by Gil Kezwer. The 23-minute film, A Man of Conscience, tells the story of the Canadian Jewish Farm School which Morris Saxe (1878-1965) established on his farm on the Eighth Line just south of Georgetown in the 1920's. The site today is the home of the Pachman Car Club. Using interviews with five of the eight surviving Polish Jewish orphans who attended the agricultural training school, plus archival footage, home movies, re-enactments using actors in period dress and talking heads with historians Irving Abella and Ben Kayfetz, Fleishman and director Cayle Chernin bring to life life an obscure but noteworthy chapter in local history. Saxe brought over his first group of 41 orphans, along with a teacher and two domestics, in June 1927. Most of the children had lost their parents in World War I or the 1919 influenza epidemic. Two years later in October 1929. a second group of 38 came, with a music teacher... A 40-year-old Toronto architect and comedy writer. Fleishman grew up hearing stories about his selfless zaxda (grandfather) and his pioneering exploits.... Saxe was bom in an agricultural colony near Kiev. Ukraine. In 1902, after serving two Esquesing Historical Society Newsletter 1