The event took place at Vaughan's Bathurst Clark Resource Library, in partnership with the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem.
The ceremony was led by the Honourable Jason Kenney, former Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism and present Minister of Employment and Social Development and for Multiculturalism, the Honourable Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House, and MP Mark Adler, with assistance from the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem and H.E. Miriam Ziv, Ambassador of Israel to Canada.
With the assistance of MCs Dr. Naomi Azrieli, Chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation, and Board member of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem, Fran Sonshine, National Chair of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem, and Yaron Ashkenazi, Executive Director of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem.
The event took place on 15 September.
In memory of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
Attendees included (from left-right) Director of International Relations at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Jane Jacobs-Kimmelman, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev, Canadian winners Carling Hind and Caitlin McGinn for their entries in the "Keeping The Memory Alive" 2014 poster competition, and Minister of Employment and Social Development and for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney who presented the winners with the top two prizes.
Premier Kathleen Wynne (centre), Monte Kwinter of the Ontario Legislative Assembly and MC Israel Mida, Board member of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem honoured survivors Bill Nightingale, Judy Cohen, Rose Zimmerman, Helen Bleeman, Alzbeta Friedmann, Fay Kieffer, Frank Junger, Martin Baranek, and Joe Leinburd. Consul General of Israel to Toronto DJ Schneeweiss and Ontario’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship Michael Coteau also spoke to the audience.
They were presented with certificates linking them with two child victims of the Holocaust in order to commemorate their short lives.
