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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

In Toronto and Poland, memories of the Holocaust

Monday is Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Bohm will spend it visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where she was sent as a teenager in May 1944.
This is the first time that Bohm has returned to Poland since the end of World War II. On Monday, she’ll be going to the camp with March of the Living, an international initiative led in Toronto by the United Jewish Appeal. The annual trip to Eastern Europe’s important Holocaust sites is an opportunity for young people to learn their history in the company of a survivor.
Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/793684--in-toronto-and-poland-memories-of-the-holocaust