Interactive touch screens provide hours of first\u002Dhand testimony, while exhibits strive to make history accessible to modern Torontonians
Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger reaches out to touch his mother’s name in a room dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.Outside the entrance there are images of pre-war Jews engaged in work and play, a reminder of the way things were, and a warning not to take that for granted. “Our life was like their life is today,” Leipciger says, referring to the many students he encounters as a speaker. “And then suddenly, beyond our control, it all changed.
And while I was aware of the Christie Pits Riot of 1933 — sparked when a pro-Nazi group brought a swastika flag to a baseball game — and lived through the saga of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel in Canada, I had never heard of the neo-Nazi rally organized by William John Beattie at Toronto’s Allan Gardens in 1965, and disrupted by Jewish activists. Beattie was jailed for six months for public mischief after painting swastikas on the homes of local Jewish leaders.
“Without knowing the past, you don’t know what’s going to happen in the future,” he says. “And we can’t say ‘this never happened.’ It’s basic information, basic knowledge.”
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