Holocaust education initiative addresses challenges of growing anti-Semitism

The time is right to develop a comprehensive inventory of best practices in Holocaust education and relevant resources offered in Canadian schools and communities.

The entrance gates to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland are pictured in 2017. A recent petition sponsored by Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld is urging the government to build upon its previous investments in Holocaust education, research, and remembrance initiatives, writes Sheila Hurtig Robertson. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA HURTIG ROBERTSON

September 21, 2020

Dr. Art Leader, the son of Holocaust survivors and a member of the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship, was alarmed, and with reason. In 2019, statistics reported by B’nai Brith Canada revealed that, for the fourth consecutive year, anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to more than 2,...

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