National Holocaust Monument

National Holocaust Monument
Canada
For Holocaust memorial
Unveiled September 27, 2017
Location 45°25′01″N 75°42′53″W / 45.4169°N 75.7146°W / 45.4169; -75.7146Coordinates: 45°25′01″N 75°42′53″W / 45.4169°N 75.7146°W / 45.4169; -75.7146
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Designed by Daniel Libeskind

The National Holocaust Monument (French: Monument National de L'Holocauste) is a Holocaust memorial in Ottawa, Canada's capital, across from the Canadian War Museum at the northeast corner of Wellington and Booth Streets, and about 1.5 km away from Parliament Hill. The memorial has been designed by Daniel Libeskind.[1]

The National Holocaust Monument Act (Bill C-442),[2] which established plans to create the memorial in Canada's capital, received Royal Assent on March 25, 2011.[3] The law was introduced as a private members bill by Tim Uppal, Minister of State and MP for Edmonton—Sherwood Park and received unanimous support.[3]

The monument will have a view of the Peace Tower and photographs by Edward Burtynsky.[1] The team is being led by Lord Cultural Resources.[1]

The monument will be overseen by the National Capital Commission.[4]

Interior court of the monument

The monument was planned to be unveiled in the fall of 2015,[5] but later pushed back to the spring of 2017 due to delays in construction.[6] The official unveiling occurred on September 27, 2017.[7]

The beginning of the memorial was enacted by a student who was outraged regarding the fact that Ottawa was one of the very few cities that did not have a monument for the Holocaust. Laura Grosman who is a student at the University of Ottawa began a campaign to see a monument of such built in Ottawa. She is the granddaughter of a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and has found passion in attempting to understand the international relation that Canada played with the Holocaust. [8]

More recently concerns have been raised about the lack of recognition given to the millions of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Holocaust Monument in Ottawa Meant For All Canadians
  2. ↑ Justice Laws Website
  3. 1 2 National Holocaust Monument
  4. ↑ National Holocaust Monument design team announced
  5. ↑ Bozikovic, Alex (2014-05-12). "National Holocaust Monument design unveiled". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Butler, Don (August 9, 2015). "Tendering problems cause one-year delay in National Holocaust Monument". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Duffy, Andrew (27 September 2017). "National Holocaust Monument unveiled in downtown Ottawa". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "How an Ottawa student's outrage led to the National Holocaust Monument". Ottawa Citizen. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
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