Lou Zablow at ceremony to honor authors of Anti-Hate Bill

Held by

Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Dates

1967 (indexed as 1967)

Level

item

Extent

Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 8 1/8 in. x W: 9 3/4 in.

Scope & content

b&w, Lou Zablow (2nd right) behind table, presentation ceremony to award plaque to authors of Anti-Hate Bill (James Walker, MP, Milton Klern, MP) Narrative: in 1964, Klein introduced Bill C-21 to House of Commons, seconded by Walker. This law never passed but was instrumental in the development of Anti-Hate legislation in Canada.Lou Zablow (1924-2005) was a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland. He survived the Lodz ghetto, was deported to Auschwitz where he stayed four days before being sent to slave labour in Lieberose, Sachenhausen, and Mauthausen concentration camps. In April 1945, he was forced on a death march to Gunskirchen concentration camp where he was liberated by the US army. He immigrated to Montreal in 1949 and became the president of the Association of Survivors of Nazi Oppression (circa 1963-1971) and took part in the creation of the MHMC in 1979.

Location

No place found in this description yet.

Locate this photo

Genre / form

graphic material

In the picture

AudienceAward CeremonyBannerBusinessmanConference TableCurtainHandshakeManMicrophonePodiumPortraitStageTableclothTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

Text in the image

HOMAGE TO THE DEADWARNING TO THE LIVINGRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Harvested

2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

Digital objects at the source

• imageOpen original at source ↗2011X_359_57.jpg