Lou Zablow at ceremony to honor authors of Anti-Hate Bill
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 8 1/8 in. x W: 9 3/4 in.
- Date
- 1967
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 8 1/8 in. x W: 9 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, Lou Zablow (far right) behind table, presentation ceremony to award plaque to authors of Anti-Hate Bill (James Walker, MP, Milton Klein, MP) Narrative: in 1964, Klein introduced Bill C-21 to House of Commons, seconded by Walker. This law never passed but was instrumental in the development of Anti-Hate legislation in Canada.Lou Zablow (1924-2005) was a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland. He survived the Lodz ghetto, was deported to Auschwitz where he stayed four days before being sent to slave labour in Lieberose, Sachenhausen, and Mauthausen concentration camps. In April 1945, he was forced on a death march to Gunskirchen concentration camp where he was liberated by the US army. He immigrated to Montreal in 1949 and became the president of the Association of Survivors of Nazi Oppression (circa 1963-1971) and took part in the creation of the MHMC in 1979.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.359.56
- Name Access
- Zablow, Lou
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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