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Gertler, Ann Straus
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- Ann Gertler
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1922-2017
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Ann Straus was born in New York City in 1922 and died in Montreal 2017. She studied economics at Vassar and Columbia. She married Maynard Gertler in 1948 with whom she had five sons.
Ann Gertler was an organizing member of Group of 78, Project Ploughshares, Voice of Women (VOW), Canadian Pugwash, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and a board member of International Peace Bureau. in addition to her roles within the organizations, Ann was also a UN accredited observer for VOW and Ploughshares. Her interest in teaching peace led to her role in the establishment of the Grindstone Island peace education centre. Gertler was also an advisor to the Canadian disarmament ambassador at the UN and a board member for Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS),
In addition to her roles for and with these organizations
Ann was also co-founder and Director of Harvest House Publishers from it’s founding, in 1960, to 1995.