"Canadians must reflect on the consequences of ignorance and hatred, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa."
""The liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau exposed the scale of Nazi crimes to the world and became symbols of the horrors of the Holocaust, the guilt of the enablers and the resilience of the survivors," Carney said."
""Today, we acknowledge that looking away is not a passive act, but an act of betrayal.""
"'Canada too has our history of turning away; we must remember that history to ensure that we never repeat it,' Carney said."
Canadians must confront the consequences of ignorance and hatred and actively remember the Holocaust to prevent repetition. The liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau revealed the scale of Nazi crimes and became symbols of the Holocaust's horrors, enablers' guilt, and survivors' resilience. Looking away is characterized as an act of betrayal rather than passivity. The United Nations established Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005 to honor the millions murdered, including about six million Jews between 1941 and 1945. Antisemitism and exclusionary Canadian immigration policies prevented many Jewish refugees from entry; Canada accepted the fewest Jewish refugees among Allied nations. About 40,000 Holocaust survivors later settled in Canada, and Canadians bear responsibility to remember and support survivors and their families.
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