Montreal Jewish community honours victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day [Video]

On Sunday night, Jewish communities recognize Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, where six candles are lit at a ceremony at the Montreal Holocaust Museum, one for every million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Amid a rising tide of anti-Semitism and conflict in the Middle East, one survivor from Montreal says now is the time for dialogue and understanding.

Rachel Kruger Gropper said she’s filled with a sense of loss and determination as she stood beneath the eternal flame at the museum.

“Around us you see the names of all the concentration camps,” she told CTV News. “Some I was connected to. Some I was not. All of them were families and children. This room is my pause and this light must not go out.”

At the outset of the Second World War, Gropper’s parents fled Poland, escaping Nazi persecution, only to be arrested by the Soviet Union army and sent …