The Canadian military helped liberate Bergen-Belsen and other Nazi concentration camps near the end of the Second World War, a fact that was omitted for decades from recorded history. The experiences of Canadian liberators – and the meaning of the…
One of the displays in the exhibit Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-1945, at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre until March 31. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-1945, opened on Oct. 16. The exhibit, said Nina…
This photo and caption appeared in the Jewish Western Bulletin, Aug. 23, 1946. May 5, 1945, is firmly etched in my “child’s” mind for that was the day of my family’s liberation or, more accurately, what remained of my family.…
