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[email protected] 613.798.2411 > page 3 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin MAY 16, 2016 | 8 IYAR 5776 ESTABLISHED 1937 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM | $2 Ottawa community marks Yom HaShoah with solemn commemoration Remembrance was the theme, May 3, as hundreds gathered at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre for the community commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Louise Rachlis reports. e know that whilst we Waisman described being liberated by cannot bring the dead Leon Bass, a 19-year-old African back to life, we can American soldier from the United States. ‘Wensure their memories Waisman said he thought Bass was an live on and that their deaths were not in angel because he’d never seen a black vain. And so, on this Yom HaShoah, we man before. commit ourselves to one simple act: Bass died a few months ago, and Yizkor, Remember.’ Waisman said he misses him. After both Those words, from a prayer written by being silent for decades, “We travelled Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, were read by together to tell our story.” Allan Shefrin near the beginning of Waisman described how “after emer- HOWARD SANDLER Ottawa’s Yom HaShoah commemoration. ging from the abyss, questions bom- Holocaust survivors (from left) Elly Bollegraaf, Raoul Korngold, Elena Keen, Tova Clark, “Remembering is not only the respons- barded me.” His life was shattered, and Agnes Klein, and Jessica Fiksel gather after lighting six memorial candles at the Yom HaShoah commemoration, May 3.