Canadianising the Holocaust: Debating Canada’s National Holocaust Monument

Authors

  • Jason Chalmers

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.39964

Abstract

This paper addresses Canada’s first national monument to the Holocaust: the National Holocaust Monument (NHM) in Ottawa. I examine how public discourse surrounding the NHM constructs the Holocaust as a Canadian memory. Political spokespersons create connections between the Holocaust and Canadian history by drawing on themes of Canada’s Allied role during the war, post-war Jewish immigration, and the narrative of None Is too Many. The discourse frames Canada as both a hero and villain in respect to the Holocaust. Whereas some nations seek to resolve such conflicting memories, Canadians seem content to remember their nation in both ways.

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Chalmers, J. (2016). Canadianising the Holocaust: Debating Canada’s National Holocaust Monument. Canadian Jewish Studies Études Juives Canadiennes, 24. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.39964