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Monument for Jewish Victims of Nazism Vandalized in Canada

A monument dedicated last week to the memory of the Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust was vandalized during the weekend, police reported today. The monument a stone tablet set up in the burial grounds on Hamilton Mountain, forty miles from Toronto, was dedicated by members of the Ohev Congregation, was dedicated by members of […]

September 26, 1963
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A monument dedicated last week to the memory of the Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust was vandalized during the weekend, police reported today.

The monument a stone tablet set up in the burial grounds on Hamilton Mountain, forty miles from Toronto, was dedicated by members of the Ohev Congregation, was dedicated by members of the Ohev Congregation, most of whom are immigrants from Europe. Vardals poured a bucket of paint on the monument and tried to set it afire. They succeeded in searing the stone.

The Association of Lithuanian Jews meanwhile dedicated a monument in the association’s burial grounds in Toronto to the memory of the Jews of Lithuania who were slaughtered during the Nazi occupation. Speakers at the ceremony included Rabbi I. Hurwitz; Julius Heyman for the Zionist Organization of Canada; B.G. Kayfetz for the Canadian Jewish Congress; John J. Glass of the Federation of Polish Jews; and Ammon Ajzensztadt of the Sheerith Hapleitah (The Surviving Remnant).

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