July 27, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Polish Congress are jointly calling for the removal of a memorial at Oakville’s St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery that glorifies Nazi German collaborators. As has been widely reported, a cenotaph honouring Ukrainian volunteers of the 14th Waffen SS “Galicia” Division stands prominently on the grounds …
December 5, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The Supreme Court of Canada has denied a former Nazi’s request to appeal the revocation of his citizenship. Helmut Oberlander was a member of a gruesome Nazi death squad unit that murdered more than 90,000 Jewish men, women and children during the Second World War. Efforts have been under way for more than two decades …
Sept. 27, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A former Nazi who illegally gained entry into Canada by lying about his past has lost his appeal to retain his Canadian citizenship. On Thursday, Justice Michael Phelan maintained that the federal government’s decision to revoke Helmut Oberlander of …
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The opinions, facts and any media content presented do not necessarily reflect the position of B’nai Brith Canada. August 22, 2017 The eyes of the world have been on Charlottesville, Virginia since the recent white nationalist rallies broke out and turned violent, culminating in 19 injuries and the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who had …
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June 15, 2017 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada B’nai Brith Canada recognized the city of Lachute, Que. on Thursday with a certificate for preventing the celebration of a Nazi pilot at a ceremony in March. Hannah Reitsch, known for her close ties to Adolf Hitler and the first woman to fly a …
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Over the past few days, Jewish sites in both Montreal and Ottawa have been targeted with an unusually heavy barrage of antisemitic vandalism. On Monday morning, a swastika was discovered on the wall of Hof Kelsten, an iconic Jewish bakery on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, just a block away from the memorial site for the late Jewish-Canadian …
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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 Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada While Argentinian-Jewish high school students were enjoying their graduation festivities at a costume party hosted in a nightclub, little did they know that their party would be crashed by Nazis. That’s right: Nazis. That would be 50 students from another high school dressed as Nazis, who not only …
