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Introducing Evil to Children
Like most parents, I’m currently wondering where the summer went, and the thought of September being just around the corner is quite daunting. Our summer passed by quite uneventfully. The highlight...
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Digging up anti-Semitism – Archeologist’s “recovery” of Nazi victims refutes...
Never shall I forget these things, / Even if I am condemned to live / As long as God Himself. — Elie Weisel It was a short, 400-word news item in The Guardian, but it spoke volumes about one of the...
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Turkish hypocrisy in Holocaust warning
Considering the source – and the history — this is rich. Late last week, Turkish President Gül warned that European face a new Holocaust if they aren’t more tolerant of non-Europeans. He was,...
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The sickness of anti-semitism spreading even in Canada
As events go, it was minor, warranting one day news coverage. Yet, a recent decision by the University of Manitoba Students Union to strip the campus group Students Against Israeli Apartheid of...
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The Suicide Letter of Samuel Zygelbojm
May 11, 1943 To His Excellency The President of the Republic of Poland Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz To Prime Minister General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, I am taking the liberty of...
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Ottawa's quiet hero of the Holocaust
A Dutch salesman who risked his life and endured torture at the hands of Nazis for helping hide and feed hundreds of Jewish men, women and children during the Holocaust died in 1999 after living...
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Letter: Remembering the Holocaust
We are commemorating a heinous event this Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Nazi extermination of European Jewry. In honouring the six million murdered souls, we must also set our sights on what can we do...
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Survivors project to save Holocaust stories
As years pass, first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors are disappearing. An initiative at Carleton University hopes to preserve the oral histories of Ottawa-area survivors and is looking to...
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Egan: He sang for Nazi officer to survive the Holocaust, and is still haunted...
Moshe Kraus survived the Holocaust because he sang with a beautiful, arresting voice — an escape from death that, at age 95, still wrecks his heart. Late one December afternoon, he’s at the dining room...
View ArticleCouple posthumously honoured in Ottawa for Holocaust heroism
Holocaust survivor Andrew Kun and his boyhood friend, Denis Lehotay, shared an emotional embrace at the Israeli embassy on Friday as Lehotay’s parents were honoured posthumously for their Second World...
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Fashionista Jeanne Beker calls her parents' Holocaust story a 'family legacy'
Trailblazing fashion journalist Jeanne Beker will bear witness on Monday in Ottawa to the courage and suffering of her parents — Holocaust survivors who hid in fields, barns and underground bunkers to...
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'You get to keep that voice alive': Violin reclaimed from Holocaust will be...
The notes played on a violin reclaimed from the Holocaust will have special resonance Wednesday evening in an Ottawa synagogue. It will be played to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the...
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