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Canadians Rush To Save Holocaust Survivors' Memories Before They're Gone

Experts are turning to graphic novels, holograms and Twitter to preserve stories for future generations.
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Canadian Survivors Remember 'Absolute Evil' Of Auschwitz 75 Years Later

Now in their 80s and 90s, they’re sharing stories about what they endured in the Holocaust before it’s too late.
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They Saved Her From The Holocaust. 74 Years Later, They Reconnected.

The French family hid 12-year-old Charlotte Adelman in their cellar for nine months.
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National Library Buys Hitler's Book That Hints At North American Holocaust

“People want to know what makes evil happen.”
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Justin Trudeau Conflating BDS With Anti-Semitism Is Dangerous

As Canadian scholars, we urge Trudeau to retract his wrong-spirited comments that demonize the work students, community members and activists have done.

To End The Kind Of Hate We Saw In Pittsburgh, We Must Witness The Past

I journeyed to the birthplace of the Holocaust to see with my own eyes how anti-Semitism gives shape to atrocities.

PM Sets Date To Apologize For Canada Turning Away Jewish Refugees

They were fleeing Nazis in 1939.
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I Will Honour Victims Of The Holocaust By Helping Refugees

My personal connection to the Holocaust is what motivates my ongoing involvement with refugee causes today.
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Quebec's Islamophobia Has Gone Down An Eerily Familiar Path

There are unsettling parallels between Quebec's dehumanization of Muslims and the bigotry that formed in pre-war Canada.
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We Must Protest Against Injustice Wherever It Appears

The White House statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention Jews or anti-Semitism. As Holocaust historian Professor Deborah Lipstadt put it, "what we saw from the White House was classic softcore denial. The Holocaust was de-Judaized."
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