OTTAWA—Hundreds gathered at Ottawa City Hall on Jan. 27 for a memorial marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 10th annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It was on Jan. 27 in 1945 that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson was joined by Employment Minister Jason Kenney; Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau; Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Rafael Barak; Germany’s ambassador to Canada Werner Wnendt; and other dignitaries to pay tribute to victims of the Holocaust and the Nazi genocide.
Kenney quoted from “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” by Czech writer Milan Kundera.
I wanted to come because I want to say thank you to Canada.
