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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Observed on January 27 each year. Never forget. Never again.

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  • The Jew Is Not My Enemy

    Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim anti-Semitism

    Fatah, Tarek, 1949-
    A liberal Muslim and critically acclaimed author explores the historical, political, and theological basis for centuries of Muslim animosity towards Jews, debunking long held myths and tracing a history of hate and its impact today.
    Book, 2010Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
  • Viral

    Antisemitism in Four Mutations

    Antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening, like a virus, it is mutating and evolving across cultures, borders and ideologies making it all but impossible to stop. Explore its infectious behavior and examine the increasing violence,…
    DVD, 2020[Arlington, VA] : PBS, [2020]
  • Righting Canada's Wrongs. Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis

    Canada's anti-Semitic Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century

    Arato, Rona
    During WWII, countries around the world, including Canada, closed their doors to Jewish refugees. In 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed for Cuba with nearly a thousand Jewish men, women, and children looking for safety. They were turned away by Cuba, the…
    Book, 2021Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, [2021]
  • No longer the exclusive province of the far right and far left, anti-semitism finds a home in identity politics and the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of "America first" isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism. An…
    Book, 2019New York : Crown, [2019]
  • Over the last decade, there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. Jews in countries throughout Europe have been…
    Book, 2019New York : Schocken Books, [2019]
  • Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you. It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel's…
    Book, 2022HarperCollins Canada, Limited 2022
  • People Love Dead Jews

    Reports From a Haunted Present

    Horn, Dara, 1977-
    A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the…
    Book, 2021New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
  • Marsha Lederman always knew her parents were different, and at five, she learned why: in the kitchen, her mother sat her down and explained about the Holocaust. Decades later, her parents dead and a mother to her own young son, Marsha is reeling in…
    Book, 2022Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2022.
  • Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team -- led by an obsessed retired FBI agent -- has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who…
    Book, 2022[Toronto] : HarperCollins Canada, 2022.
  • Maus

    a Survivor's Tale

    Spiegelman, Art
    The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
    Book, 2003London : Penguin, 2003.
  • Agent Jack

    the True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

    Hutton, Robert (Journalist),
    The never-before-told story of Eric Roberts, who infiltrated a network of Nazi sympathizers in Great Britain in order to protect the country from the grips of fascism
    Book, 2019New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
  • In the Garden of the Righteous

    The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

    Hurowitz, Richard
    In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared…
    Book, 2023Harper Collins Books 2023/01
  • Always Remember Your Name

    a True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz

    Bucci, Andra
    On March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati, her four-year-old sister Andra, and other members of the family were deported to Auschwitz. Their mother Mira was determined to keep track of her girls. After being tattooed with their inmate numbers, she made…
    Book, 2022New York : Astra House, [2022]
  • A Delayed Life

    the True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz

    Kraus, Dita, 1929-
    Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different--until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to…
    Book, 2020New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020.
  • In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the…
    Book, 2020New York : Harper, 2020.