Earlier this week, several postsecondary institutions marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. They honoured the victims of the Holocaust and Nazism on January 27—the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp’s liberation. McMaster University lit its University Hall with yellow lights and the University of Winnipeg lowered its flags and reaffirmed its commitment to countering all forms of racism and hatred. The University of New Brunswick held a workshop led by Atlantic Canada Holocaust Education Foundation Founder Jasmine Kranat. The University of British Columbia shared details of an upcoming archive collection that is being developed by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and the UBC Library. The University of Waterloo highlighted Professor Robert Jan van Pelt’s role in a Royal Ontario Museum exhibition titled “Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away.”
