March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1000’s collect to participate within the annual March of the Dwelling on the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau loss of life camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Video: Anadolu Company by way of Reuters Join.)
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AUSCHWITZ: A Holocaust survivor from Canada has warned about rising antisemitism in his nation, calling on the nation’s leaders to take motion towards perpetrators.
Nate Leipciger spoke on the annual March of the Dwelling at Auschwitz in Poland on Tuesday as 1000’s gathered to commemorate these killed within the Holocaust towards a backdrop of rising antisemitism on this planet.
The 98-year-old mentioned he was lately focused in Toronto when mezuzahs (sacred parchment scrolls) have been forcibly faraway from condominium doorways in his constructing.
The violence elevated in March when his synagogue was additionally focused in a drive-by taking pictures. “The entrance doorways and foyer have been destroyed. It’s horrible that we have now misplaced our sense of safety,” Leipciger informed Fox Information Digital.
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Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger, 98, who participated within the March of the Dwelling for the twenty second time, speaks on the ceremony that adopted the march in Auschwitz-Birkenau on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
“When you lose that, you not know when or the place the subsequent assault may happen. It’s deeply troubling to stay in a free, democratic nation — the place everybody is supposed to have equal rights — and to be persecuted on this means,” he added.
Born in Poland in 1928, Leipciger was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. He survived a number of camps and a loss of life march earlier than being liberated in 1945, later immigrating to Canada in 1948.
The one method to stop historical past from repeating itself, he mentioned, is to advocate for the reality and confront deception and lies.
Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, Canada, was shot at on March 3, 2026. No accidents have been reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star)
“The working is over. For hundreds of years, we ran. We’ve to face up for our proper to stay as Jews in any nation, together with Israel, as free residents having fun with the fruits of Western tradition, of which we’re half,” he added.
For the reason that Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, bloodbath, Canada has seen a pointy rise in antisemitism, with B’nai Brith Canada reporting 6,219 incidents in 2024 — greater than double the quantity recorded in 2022.
Whereas figures for 2025 have but to be launched, Public Safety Canada famous that from April to June 2025, “Amongst hate crimes concentrating on faith… the bulk have been directed on the Jewish neighborhood (69%).”
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Canadian Jewish communities are “extraordinarily involved” a few surge in antisemitism, a actuality conveyed by Israeli officers each privately and publicly to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s authorities.
“We’re conscious of utmost concern amongst Jewish communities in Canada about their security and well-being, each as people and as communities, together with their establishments,” Israeli Ambassador to Ottawa Ido Moed informed Fox Information Digital. “Israel views the latest assaults towards synagogues as very severe and considers Canada among the many high-risk nations by way of taking pictures incidents.”
Crowds cross by means of the doorway of Auschwitz-Birkenau as they conclude the March of the Dwelling on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger )
Moed mentioned Israel has supplied to develop cooperation with Canada throughout areas together with training and safety coordination, and has initiated roundtable discussions on coverage, regulation and finest practices.
U.S. Particular Envoy to Monitor and Fight Antisemitism Yehuda Kaploun informed Fox Information Digital at Auschwitz that management accountability is important to confronting antisemitism.
“It’s incumbent upon legislation enforcement in numerous nations to designate terrorist organizations, as we have now carried out with sure features of the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The world ought to achieve this collectively, and America is main the best way in that battle,” Kaploun mentioned.
Earlier this month, pictures have been fired at a Jewish-owned restaurant in Toronto throughout Passover. In March, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, despatched a letter urging Ottawa to extend efforts to guard Jewish communities after three synagogues in the Toronto area have been hit by gunfire inside only one week.
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Richard Marceau, senior vice chairman of strategic initiatives and basic counsel on the Heart for Israel and Jewish Affairs, famous that Jewish Canadians are 25 occasions extra doubtless than some other group to be victims of hate crimes.
“What we have now seen in Canada is an all-level systemic failure to handle Jew-hatred,” he informed Fox Information Digital.
“Confronting this disaster is important not solely to guard the Jewish neighborhood, however to safeguard the way forward for the Canadian lifestyle,” he continued. “All ranges of presidency should do extra to guard Canadians, together with guaranteeing sturdy and constant enforcement of present legal guidelines, enhancing transparency in prosecutorial choices, strengthening help – together with financially – for neighborhood safety, and addressing the drivers of radicalization in Canada.”
SanJaya Wijayakoon, an RCMP superintendent in Vancouver who joined a global law enforcement delegation on the March of the Dwelling, mentioned engagement with the Jewish neighborhood is central to policing.
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Anti-Israel protesters maintain antisemitic posters in Alberta, Canada, on April 13, 2025. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto by way of AP)
“An enormous a part of our work is to construct contacts and preserve sturdy relationships by means of which we will obtain data, present recommendation and steerage on guaranteeing security, and, if one thing crosses the road into criminality, examine it absolutely,” he mentioned.
“I feel because the years cross, fewer and fewer folks throughout the police perceive what occurred in 1945 in Europe. Being on this program and on this march permits us to return and converse to our folks about what I discovered and noticed, they usually can apply it of their day-to-day work,” he added.
Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress Israel Area, pointed to the latest synagogue shootings in Toronto and criticized the federal government’s response as inadequate.
“I wish to see the prime minister correctly outline the issue and cease pussyfooting round, pretending radical Islam doesn’t exist,” Adams mentioned.
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“We’re below assault. International actors are working in Western nations in three areas: they’re sending radical imams into mosques, they’re investing large quantities of cash in academic programs and they’re concentrating on us on social media. I discover the response by Western leaders, excluding President Trump, to be totally missing,” he mentioned.
“Everybody within the West must get up. They’re making an attempt to remove our freedom. It begins with the Jews however by no means ends with the Jews,” he added.
