By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada A motion to commemorate Holocaust Education Week failed at the semi-annual General Meeting of the Ryerson Student Union (RSU) on Tuesday night, after students opposed to the motion staged a walk-out that caused the meeting to lose quorum. The motion in question, submitted by a member […]
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I am the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors. In February, I accompanied my maternal grandparents, Marika and Bill Glied, to Detmold, Germany to witness my grandfather’s testimony against a former SS Nazi guard, Reinhold Hanning. I travelled back in June to witness the court give its judgment. On June 17, 2016, for likely the
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By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada On Sept. 5, 1996, British author (and now infamous Holocaust denier) David Irving accused American historian Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books of libel following the publication of her book, Denying the Holocaust, where she charges Irving and several other suspected deniers of “purely antisemitic diatribe.” As
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B’nai Brith Canada is commending the University of Lethbridge for officially suspending Anthony Hall, a Globalization Studies professor who vocally supports Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories blaming the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on Israel. A video posted to YouTube this morning by Hall outlines that he has been suspended from his position without pay, as the
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The first documentary of Anne Frank in Arabic hs been secretly screened in Iran, a country whose leaders openly deny that the Holocaust happened. On Aug. 17, Deadline reported that Croatian film director Jakov Sedlar screened Anne Frank: Then and Now in an Iranian provincial theatre without approval from the authorities. The
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada It looks like the “ideal Aryan family” included some Jewish progeny. A new discovery in the Berlin archives has revealed that Magda Ritshel, wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, falsified her birth certificate and that her father was actually Jewish. On her birth certificate, it showed that Magda was the
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat and holocaust hero, has finally had his mysterious death revealed. A recently discovered diary of a KGB head says that the hero was executed in a Soviet prison in 1947. On August 6, the New York Times reported that the diary of Ivan A. Serov, the first
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The diaries of Nazi mass murderer Heinrich Himmler have been found in the Russian Military Archive in Podolsk filed under Dnewnik, Russian for diary. The diaries contain Himmler’s personal life experiences throughout 1938, 1943, and 1944, as reported by Daily Mail. The diary mainly functioned as a service calendar containing dates, places,
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Pope Francis will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Friday during his five-day trip to Poland. Pope Francis’ visit follows the example of the two previous Popes. Pope John Paul II was the first to go in 1979 and Pope Benedict visited in 2006. John Paul II’s visit was
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Sunday to pay tribute to the millions who were massacred during the Holocaust. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Holocaust Survivor and past president of the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants (CJHSD) Nate Leipciger
