Observed since 1982, Holocaust Education Week is an internationally recognized week honouring the survivors of the Holocaust and commemorating those murdered by the Nazis. Annually, this week is observed during the first week of November.
The MS St. Louis carried Jewish German passengers fleeing the Nazi State to Cuba, where most were denied entry. Under Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King, the Canadian government chose not to admit the passengers in Canada, a decision rooted in persistent climate of antisemitic exclusion.
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