Ottawa Event

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a solemn moment for us to honour the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and to remember the countless others targeted by the Nazi regime. This year’s ceremony, organized by the National Holocaust Committee, marks a moment of profound historical significance: the 80th anniversary of […]

This year, Yom HaShoah will pay tribute to the 80th anniversary of the deportation of 440,000 Jews from Hungary from May 15 to July 9, 1944. Most were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they were murdered, the majority in gas chambers. By the end of July 1944, the only Jewish Community left in Hungary was that