Meet a few of the younger Jews who got tattooed to never forget the Holocaust
A preview from The CJN Magazine.
Misha and the Wolves: A simple documentary about a complicated story
Watching this movie, you’ll have a lot of questions. That’s the point.
Liberation75 promises to keep Holocaust relevant
COVID may have delayed it by a year and it’s taking place virtually instead of live in Toronto, but Liberation75 is still billing itself as “the world’s largest gathering of Holocaust survivors, descendants, educators and friends.”
Canada Comes Together to Mark Yom ha-Shoah
Yom ha-Shoah commemorations were held cross-Canada virtually on April 8 for the second consecutive year due to the pandemic. The ceremony marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Europe and was hosted by Toronto-based actor Jake Epstein, the son of Kathy Kacer, the award-winning author of The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser and other Holocaust-related […]
Anti-Semitism definition raised at city hall Yom Ha-Shoah commemoration
Montreal was urged to adopt a widely recognized definition of anti-Semitism during a virtual Yom ha-Shoah commemoration the city hosted in conjunction with B’nai Brith Canada.
Polish libel case against Canadian professor seen as a warning
A Polish court’s ruling that a Canadian Holocaust scholar must apologize for tarnishing the memory of a wartime mayor in Poland continues to reverberate around the world.
How to help students grasp the complexity of the Holocaust
Two years ago, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we released the disturbing results of the Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Study in Canada.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day to be marked in Ottawa
Seventy-six years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz concentration camp, liberating some 7,600 emaciated prisoners. In the five years of the infamous camp’s existence, between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, had been murdered there.
What to tell the kids?
Norman Ravvin reviews Ellen Schwartz’s young adult novel, The Princess Dolls.
Survivor teaches students in Shoah documentary
Myron Love looks at the new documentary, Tikkun Olam: Isaac’s Legacy, which focuses on the interaction of 94-year-old Holocaust survivor and educator Isaac Gotfried and a class of Grade 12 students at J. H. Bruns Collegiate, a secondary school in southern Winnipeg.
