Friends of SimonWiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies Launches New Website ‘NeverForgetMe.ca’at Freedom Day @Yonge-Dundas Square Today at Noon!

September 28, 2016 - Toronto Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is proudto launch our new website, www.neverforgetme.ca,at today’s Freedom Day celebration at Yonge-Dundas Square at noon. More than3,000 students from schools across the Greater Toronto Area join FSWC everyyear for an inspiring educational event dedicated to preserving the legacy ofHolocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal and his passionate pursuit of justice andhuman rights.

“Our new website, www.neverforgetme.ca, providescompelling eyewitness testimony from Canadian Holocaust survivors that can beaccessed by millions of people across Canada and around the world,” explainedFSWC President & CEO Avi Benlolo. “We are so fortunate that five of the sixsurvivors profiled on this new website, including Gerda Freiberg, FaigieLibman, Andy Reti, Vera Schiff and Gershon Willinger, will join the thousandsof students attending Freedom Day today. Their stories, ranging fromgrowing up as hidden children to surviving the atrocities of the concentrationcamps, are powerful responses to Holocaust denial and revisionism. As thegeneration of survivors slowly dwindles, it is incumbent on the rest of us toshare their stories and become their advocates,” he added.

Freedom Day is supported by an Inter-Action grantfrom the Government of Canada.

FREEDOM DAY

Date:September 28, 2016           Time: 12.00 Noon          Venue:Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto

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Contact 
Stacey L. Starkman 
Director of Communications & External Relations 
416.864.9735 x 32 - office / sstarkman@fswc.ca 

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is a leading Canadian non-profit human rights foundation directly representing over 30,000 members. FSWC is committed to countering racism and antisemitism and to promoting the principles of tolerance, social justice and Canadian democratic values through advocacy and educational programs including workshops, Freedom Day, the Spirit of Hope Benefit, Tools for Tolerance and the widely acclaimed new Tour for Humanity. FSWC is affiliated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization headquartered in Los Angeles, which has won two Academy Awards, has built two Museums of Tolerance (with a third being built in Jerusalem) and is an NGO at the United Nations, UNESCO, OAS, OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament. Visit us at www.fswc.ca

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