The rally for the hostages at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 5. (photo by Pat Johnson)
The weekly rally for the hostages at the Vancouver Art Gallery carried added resonance Sunday, May 5, hours before the world marked Yom Hashoah. Myer Grinshpan, a survivor of the Holocaust, spoke, as did his son, Roy Grinshpan. Anna Mae Wiesenthal, a scholar of the Holocaust, and Stephen Lowy, whose father, Leo Lowy, was a “Mengele twin,” also spoke. Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg, Vancouver’s longest-serving rabbi, shared reflections on the Holocaust and current events and recited the Mourner’s Kaddish.