The park is for everyone from all walks of life to gather in peace and witness one another’s humanity.
Photo by Bruno Schlumberger“It’s not just a park — it’s a testament to David’s legacy. And if we have truly learned from David, let us have the courage to use this space to make friends with those who walk these same paths, to share our stories and build community, and together strive and take action for a better future,” Bregman said.
When Shentow was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945 — his 20th birthday — he weighed just 76 pounds, but carried more memories than most men could bear. He had survived the Nazi occupation of Belgium, a forced-labour camp, the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Warsaw Ghetto, a death march and Dachau.
He went home to Antwerp, Belgium, in the hope of reuniting with relatives. Although he had heard his mother, father and two sisters had perished in Nazi death camps, he thought some of his aunts, uncles and cousins might come back to the Jewish Community Centre.Article content“I realized I’m the only one,” he once told this newspaper. “Out of 17 people, I’m the only one who came back.”
Shentow would start a new life in Canada, and go on to become one of Ottawa’s best-known Holocaust survivors and educators. For three decades, he was a tireless witness to history, suffering his memories in classrooms, auditoriums and museums so that others could understand the truth of the “Final Solution” — the Nazi policy that systematically killed almost two out of every three European Jews by 1945.
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