Joe Schlesinger, Famous Canadian Immigrant
Joe Schlesinger, CM (born 1928) is a Canadian television journalist and author.
Joe was born in Vienna, Austria, and from there his family moved to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
In 1939, his parents sent him and his brother to a school for Czechoslovakian refugees in Wales organized by Nicholas Winton to escape the anti-semitism of continental Europe during World War II.
After the war, Joe returned to Bratislava and found out that his parents had been killed in the Holocaust.
In 1948, he worked as a translator for the Associated Press and soon he left Czechoslovakia to Austria to escape the communists.
In 1950, Joe emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and studied at the University of British Columbia.
He spend time as a journalist in Toronto, London and in Paris France as a journalist for the International Herald Tribune.
Joe joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1966. He retired from full-time employment in 1994, but continues to produce essays and special reports for CBC News.
Joe was a host on CBC Newsworld and producer of commentaries and documentaries for CBC Prime Time News.
In 1990, he wrote his autobiography, Time Zones: a Journalist in the World.
In 1994, Joe was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
He has been nominated for 18 Gemini Awards and won three awards, for "Best Reportage" (1987 and 1992) and "Best News Magazine Segment" (2004).
Joe was awarded the John Drainie Award (1997) and "Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist (Gordon Sinclair Award)" (1987).
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