The late Eugene Kaellis was educated as a chemist and dentist. While on a U.S. National Institute of Health Teaching and Research Fellowship at New York University, he earned his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in biology. He has written hundreds of articles that have appeared in general interest, scholarly, and scientific periodicals in the United States and Canada. He became Senior Research Scientist at a large pharmaceutical corporation and later was an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, where he received two National Research Council of Canada grants. Dr. Kaellis was the leading speaker at a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the College of Medicine of the University of Mexico. He received the 2008 Simon Rockower Award for feature writing in the Canadian newspaper, Jewish Independent. Dr Kaellis's late wife, Rhoda Besunder Kaellis, became the editor of "Keeping the Memory: fifteen eyewitness accounts of Victoria Holocaust survivors", published for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, 1991. She authored best selling "The Last Enemy", also published in Lodz, Poland as "Ostatni Wrog", and, later, "A Question of Values". The Kaellises were active in the local Jewish and arts communities of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Rhoda was a tireless champion of the homeless. The Rhoda Kaellis Residence, named in her honour, features 11 transitional housing units as well as 13 permanent independent housing units.