Memorial service at Israel Pavillion - Expo 1967

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

Dates

1967 (indexed as 1967)

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Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 in.

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b&w, Lou Zablow lights a memorial candle at the Israel Pavillion during a ceremony at Expo 67. On the left hand side is Tibor Weinberger; the man on the right is unidentified. All three men are wearing (replicas?) concentration camp uniforms with their respective prisoner identification numbers.The memorial candle is placed on top of a table covered with the Canadian flag. Narrative: 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.

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