Educators ‘Heartened’ as BC and Ontario Mandate Holocaust Education

People attend a vigil organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver in support of those killed in Israel, in Vancouver, on Oct. 10, 2023. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

One of Claude Romney’s earliest memories from when she was a young girl in France is of her father being arrested by German soldiers and a French police officer.

“When my father was arrested, the Germans were not arresting women and children yet,” Ms. Romney said in an interview. “But after my father was deported, they did start arresting women and children and so my mother and I fled Paris.”