National Holocaust Monument
National Holocaust Monument | |
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Holocaust memorial | |
Unveiled | September 27, 2017 |
Location | 45°25′01″N 75°42′53″W / 45.4169°N 75.7146°W |
Designed by | Daniel Libeskind |
The National Holocaust Monument (
The National Holocaust Monument Act (Bill C-442),
The monument features a view of the Peace Tower and photographs by Edward Burtynsky.[1] The team was led by Lord Cultural Resources.[1]
The monument is overseen by the National Capital Commission.[4]
The monument was planned to be unveiled in the fall of 2015,[5] but later pushed back to the spring of 2017 due to delays in construction.[6] The official unveiling occurred on September 27, 2017.[7] In 2017, when the National Holocaust Monument of Canada was unveiled in Ottawa, the opening plaque made no mention of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis.[8] Subsequently, chair Rabbi Daniel Friedman took responsibility for the error.[9][10]
The monument was built due to the persistent activism of former University of Ottawa student, Laura Grosman. Laura began advocating for a monument to be built commemorating the Nazis atrocities and as a beacon of light for Canadian Holocaust survivors. She campaigned and met with various Members of Parliament to support the introduction of a Private Members Bill. She is the granddaughter of a Polish-born Holocaust survivor. [11]
See also
- Antisemitism in Canada
- List of Holocaust memorials and museums
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
- Museum of Jewish Montreal
References
- ^ a b c Holocaust Monument in Ottawa Meant For All Canadians
- ^ Justice Laws Website
- ^ a b National Holocaust Monument
- ^ "National Holocaust Monument design team announced". CBC News. 2014-05-12. Archived from the original on 2023-05-09.
- ^ Bozikovic, Alex (2014-05-12). "National Holocaust Monument design unveiled". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ^ Butler, Don (August 9, 2015). "Tendering problems cause one-year delay in National Holocaust Monument". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ Duffy, Andrew (27 September 2017). "National Holocaust Monument unveiled in downtown Ottawa". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ^ Images, Getty. "No, Justin Trudeau Is Not a Holocaust Denier". The Forward.
- ^ "Rabbi Apologizes For Canada Holocaust Plaque That Left Out The Jews". The Forward.
- ^ "Friedman: Why Canadians should be proud of the Holocaust Monument". ottawacitizen.
- ^ "How an Ottawa student's outrage led to the National Holocaust Monument". Ottawa Citizen. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
Further reading
- Norman Ravvin, "Placed Upon the Landscape, Casting Shadows: Jewish Canadian Monuments and Other Forms of Memory", Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes vol. 31: (104-14), May 2021.
- David Goutor, The Canadian Media and the ‘Discovery’ of the Holocaust, 1944-1945, Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes, vol. 5 (January), 1997.
- Franklin Bialystok, 1944: What Was Known? What Was Reported? What Was Done? What Could Have Been Done?, Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes 27 (June), 2019.
External links
- Official website
- Debating Canada's National Holocaust Monument Archived 2021-06-06 at the Wayback Machine