This is the first Holocaust museum in the country. It features reproductions of Auschwitz barracks, a name room, a flame memorial, a study center, and photographs and screens showing actual footage of before, during, and after the genocide.
Dozens of online messages from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and other Arab countries have been sent by people in the region in solidarity, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Alison Chabloz, 57, is expected to serve nine weeks in prison for violating the country’s communications act after she promoted anti-Semitic rhetoric in two interviews she did with far-right online sites.
The perpetrator, Darryl Jones, has been arrested and charged with three counts of assault.
"It is understandable that the level of anxiety is rising and concerns about communal safety are on everyone’s minds," says ADL chief.
"Though we welcome the 20% decrease in crimes targeting the Jewish community, Jewish Canadians still remain the most targeted religious minority for hate crime and second overall," notes CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Shimon Koffler Fogel.
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., who founded a KKK chapter and ran for Congress on a white power platform, drove to Kansas City in 2014 to "kill Jews before he died." All his victims were Christian.
Apparent anti-Semitic incident, captured on CCTV, prompts manhunt.
Pastor Tupirani da Hora Lores and worshippers at his church in Rio de Janeiro prayed to God to inflict destruction on the Jews.
Candles, available in "Little Jew" and "Big Jew" sizes, have been removed from the website that sold them, possibly in response to the controversy they caused.