"UNTO EVERY PERSON THERE IS A NAME"

B’nai Brith Canada Announces Yom Hashoah Commemoration

April 18, 2001

For Immediate Release

Unto Every Person There is a Name is the jointly developed Holocaust Memorial Program of B’nai Brith Canada and Yad Vashem, under the sponsorship of the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, which will be held at two Toronto locations on Thursday April 19, 2001. B’nai Brith Canada Lodge members will gather at the Cenotaph in front of Old City Hall at 12 PM, and at the B’nai Brith Canada Building at 15 Hove St. at 12 PM to recite the names of some of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Bill 66 established Yom Hashoah as the province’s official Holocaust Memorial Day.

The program, through prayer, poetry, testimony, and the reading of names, ages, and origins of many of the victims of the Holocaust, is intended to drive home the individual nature of the tragedy that befell all 6 million victims. It is meant to illustrate the horrible results of hatred and intolerance, and to help ensure that such sentiments find no fertile ground here in Canada.

Other Unto Every Person There Is A Name commemorations will take place across the province in coming days, including April 22, 2001 at 7PM at Congregation Beth Isaiah in Guelph, and April 23, 2001 at the Cenotaph in Confederation Park in Peterborough, at 5PM. A subsequent commemoration will take place in Unionville, place and time TBA.

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B’nai Brith Canada, active in Canada since 1875, is the community’s senior advocacy and volunteer organization.
Its Institute for International Affairs was established to monitor events in the Middle East, as well as human rights throughout the world.

For more information, please contact:
Arieh Rosenblum, B’nai Brith Canada’s Ontario Region Director, at 416 633 6224 extension 132, or at arosenblum@bnaibrith.ca.