Holocaust

An empty hallway is seen at McGee Secondary school in Vancouver, on Sept. 5, 2014. Jewish organizations say the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation has denied recognition to the Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association for the development and funding of teaching resources. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

B.C. teachers’ union denies Holocaust education group status for funding

BCTF told Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association it won’t be recognized as specialist group

 

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 28, 2023. Netanyahu pledged Tuesday, April 30 to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, just as cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu uses Holocaust ceremony to brush off pressure against Gaza offensive

Israeli Prime Minister says he remains committed to an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah

 

Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, poses for a portrait in the garden of her family home in Kibbutz Meflasim, southern Israel, Friday, May 3, 2024. On Monday, Tzamir will join 55 other Holocaust survivors from Israel and around the world for a memorial march in Poland, called March of the Living. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after Oct. 7 attack

Sunday evening marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

 

B.C. Premier David Eby has apologized after he says a member of his staff posted an incorrect message in social media posts linking to his statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. Eby is seen during a press conference at the provincial legislature in Victoria, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

B.C. premier apologizes for social media mistake on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Post paired text about standing with the Muslim community with a link to the Eby’s Holocaust message

B.C. Premier David Eby has apologized after he says a member of his staff posted an incorrect message in social media posts linking to his statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. Eby is seen during a press conference at the provincial legislature in Victoria, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Fire burns in a giant menorah during ceremonies on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops, at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, Jan.26, 2024. Main ceremonies with the participation of a handful of survivors are to take place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial place on Saturday, Jan. 27, which is also the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

Nearly 6 million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust

Fire burns in a giant menorah during ceremonies on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops, at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, Jan.26, 2024. Main ceremonies with the participation of a handful of survivors are to take place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial place on Saturday, Jan. 27, which is also the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
People hold Israeli flags during a vigil organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver in support of those killed in Israel, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid a rise in antisemitism. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canada criminalized ‘condoning, denying or downplaying’ the Holocaust: is it working?

Feds say no charges under the new criminal offence so far, despite rising reports of anti-Semitism

People hold Israeli flags during a vigil organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver in support of those killed in Israel, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid a rise in antisemitism. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
To combat rising antisemitism, both British Columbia and Ontario announced this week that they would introduce mandatory Holocaust education for high school students, teaching them of the murder of six million Jews and others during the Second World War by Nazi Germany. (Black Press file photo)

Educators ‘heartened’ as B.C. and Ontario mandate Holocaust education

Future Grade 10 students in B.C. will learn about the Holocaust as part of a broadened curriculum

To combat rising antisemitism, both British Columbia and Ontario announced this week that they would introduce mandatory Holocaust education for high school students, teaching them of the murder of six million Jews and others during the Second World War by Nazi Germany. (Black Press file photo)
Premier David Eby, here seen earlier this month in the legislature denouncing the attacks by Hamas on Israel as well as several cases of anti-Semitism in British Columbia, Monday announced that B.C. will make Holocaust education mandatory in 2025-26. (Screencap).

B.C. to make education about Holocaust mandatory starting 2025-26

Premier announces Grade 10 students will get broadened curriculum to combat rise of antisemitism

Premier David Eby, here seen earlier this month in the legislature denouncing the attacks by Hamas on Israel as well as several cases of anti-Semitism in British Columbia, Monday announced that B.C. will make Holocaust education mandatory in 2025-26. (Screencap).
Juno nominee Lenka Lichtenberg at her home in Toronto, Monday, Feb. 21, 2023. A series of poems, written in concentration camp, about romantic love and relationships, hopeful dreams of faraway places, and betrayal is brought to life in album form, sung in Czech by the author’s granddaughter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Lenka Lichtenberg’s Juno-nominated album brings Holocaust survivor’s poetry to life

Poetry was written by Lichtenberg’s grandmother in a concentration camp

Juno nominee Lenka Lichtenberg at her home in Toronto, Monday, Feb. 21, 2023. A series of poems, written in concentration camp, about romantic love and relationships, hopeful dreams of faraway places, and betrayal is brought to life in album form, sung in Czech by the author’s granddaughter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Orange cake recipe that survived the Holocaust was turned into cupcakes for the Nov. 23 event, A Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor, at UFV Abbotsford. (Jennifer Feinberg/ The Chilliwack Progress)

Holocaust survivor’s recipe for orange cake in high demand in Chilliwack and beyond

The recipe came from Alex Buckman’s aunt Rebecca who survived Ravensbrück concentration camp

Orange cake recipe that survived the Holocaust was turned into cupcakes for the Nov. 23 event, A Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor, at UFV Abbotsford. (Jennifer Feinberg/ The Chilliwack Progress)
UFV History instructor Sebastian Huebel with BeNanna Bakery owner Travis Neels. (Jennifer Feinberg/ Chilliwack Progress)

Holocaust survivor’s orange cake recipe made into cupcakes at B.C. bakery

‘There are the survivors, and memories we need to keep alive. So it’s more than a simple cupcake!’

UFV History instructor Sebastian Huebel with BeNanna Bakery owner Travis Neels. (Jennifer Feinberg/ Chilliwack Progress)