An annual time to reflect upon the horrors of the Holocaust arrived Saturday amid sharp global tensions over fighting between Israel and Hamas.
That context was apparent in International Holocaust Remembrance Day messaging from global leaders, who condemned Nazi-era atrocities and urged rejection of hateful ideologies, while pointing to the rising presence of antisemitism in the conflict-riven moment of today.
In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement that paid tribute to the millions of Jews slain during the Holocaust and called on Canadians to remember its victims and survivors.
A partial view of people who gathered at Ottawa’s National Holocaust Museum on Friday for a service
