Discovering History

On this day in 1944, Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach. 47-year-old Major Archie MacNaughton, a First World War veteran and leader of the North Shore New Brunswick Regiment’s A Company, was among the men. Watch our Heritage Minute to learn more about that fateful day:

The words of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel continue to resonate today. What can we learn from him about being witnesses to hate?

I do not know you, a man said to a Jewish woman on the street, but you will now be greeted often. We are a group who say ‘hello’ to Jews wearing the star. V...ictor Klemperer recorded this encounter between his friend and a German stranger in his diary on November 24, 1941. The Nazis had forced Jews in Germanylike this man on a busy street in Munich in 1941to wear the Star of David badge earlier that year as a way to ostracize and isolate them. The fact that Victor noted the act of kindness in his diary suggests how unusual it was at a time of intense persecution. Even something as simple as greeting a neighbor can be an important sign of solidarity.

History speaks to us for a reason. But we can only heed its warning if we are listening.

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