Holocaust Remembrance Day - Member's Statement

MS. CLAUDIA CHENDER « » : Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I awoke to a headline today that 41 per cent of Americans do not know what Auschwitz is. In my family, we know all too well. Auschwitz was the place where my grandmother's beloved aunt, Esther Rohr, paid the price for securing her orphan niece's safe passage to New York City, where she would go on to meet my grandfather, also a Holocaust survivor, and live a long and healthy life.

If we forget the lessons of the past, Mr. Speaker, we are condemned to repeat them.

I ask all members of this House to take a moment today to reflect on this massive loss of life, and the lessons it leaves us with.

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