From Auschwitz, Holocaust survivor issues urgent warning over rising antisemitism in Canada

AUSCHWITZ: A Holocaust subsister from Canada has warned astir increasing antisemitism successful his country, calling connected the nation's leaders to instrumentality enactment against perpetrators.

Nate Leipciger spoke astatine the yearly March of the Living astatine Auschwitz successful Poland connected Tuesday arsenic thousands gathered to commemorate those killed successful the Holocaust against a backdrop of increasing antisemitism successful the world. 

The 98-year-old said helium was precocious targeted successful Toronto erstwhile mezuzahs (sacred parchment scrolls) were forcibly removed from flat doors successful his building. 

The unit accrued successful March erstwhile his synagogue was besides targeted successful a drive-by shooting. "The beforehand doors and lobby were destroyed. It is unspeakable that we person mislaid our consciousness of security," Leipciger told Fox News Digital. 

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Holocaust subsister Nate Leipciger, 98, who participated successful the March of the Living for the 22nd clip speaks astatine the ceremonial that followed the march successful Auschwitz-Birkenau connected Tuesday April 14, 2026.

"Once you suffer that, you nary longer cognize erstwhile oregon wherever the adjacent onslaught mightiness occur. It is profoundly troubling to unrecorded successful a free, antiauthoritarian state — wherever everyone is meant to person adjacent rights — and to beryllium persecuted successful this way," helium added.

Born successful Poland successful 1928, Leipciger was deported to Auschwitz successful 1943. He survived aggregate camps and a decease march earlier being liberated successful 1945, aboriginal immigrating to Canada successful 1948.

The lone mode to forestall past from repeating itself, helium said, is to advocator for the information and face deception and lies.

Temple Emanu-El successful Toronto, Canada was changeable astatine connected March 3, 2026. No injuries were reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star)

"The moving is over. For centuries, we ran. We person to basal up for our close to unrecorded arsenic Jews successful immoderate country, including Israel, arsenic escaped citizens enjoying the fruits of Western culture, of which we are part," helium added.

Since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Canada has seen a crisp emergence successful antisemitism, with B’nai Brith Canada reporting 6,219 incidents successful 2024 — much than treble the fig recorded successful 2022.

While figures for 2025 person yet to beryllium released, Public Safety Canada noted that from April to June 2025, "Among hatred crimes targeting religion… the bulk were directed astatine the Jewish assemblage (69%)."

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Canadian Jewish communities are "extremely concerned" astir a surge successful antisemitism, a world conveyed by Israeli officials some privately and publically to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government.

"We are alert of utmost interest among Jewish communities successful Canada astir their information and well-being, some arsenic individuals and arsenic communities, including their institutions," Israeli Ambassador to Ottawa Ido Moed told Fox News Digital. "Israel views the caller attacks against synagogues arsenic precise superior and considers Canada among the high-risk countries successful presumption of shooting incidents."

Crowds walk done the entranceway of Auschwitz-Birkenau arsenic they reason the March of the Living connected Tuesday April 14, 2026 .  (Yossi Zeliger )

Moed said Israel has offered to grow practice with Canada crossed areas including acquisition and information coordination, and has initiated roundtable discussions connected policy, regularisation and champion practices.

U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Yehuda Kaploun told Fox News Digital astatine Auschwitz that enactment accountability is captious to confronting antisemitism.

"It is incumbent upon instrumentality enforcement successful assorted countries to designate violent organizations, arsenic we person done with definite aspects of the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The satellite should bash truthful collectively, and America is starring the mode successful that battle," Kaploun said.

Earlier this month, shots were fired astatine a Jewish-owned edifice successful Toronto during Passover. In March, Israel’s curate of Diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, sent a missive urging Ottawa to summation efforts to support Jewish communities aft 3 synagogues successful the Toronto country were deed by gunfire wrong conscionable 1 week.

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Richard Marceau, elder vice president of strategical initiatives and wide counsel astatine the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, noted that Jewish Canadians are 25 times much apt than immoderate different radical to beryllium victims of hatred crimes.

"What we person seen successful Canada is an all-level systemic nonaccomplishment to code Jew-hatred," helium told Fox News Digital.

"Confronting this situation is indispensable not lone to support the Jewish community, but to safeguard the aboriginal of the Canadian mode of life," helium continued. "All levels of authorities indispensable bash much to support Canadians, including ensuring robust and accordant enforcement of existing laws, improving transparency successful prosecutorial decisions, strengthening enactment – including financially – for assemblage security, and addressing the drivers of radicalization successful Canada."

SanJaya Wijayakoon, an RCMP superintendent successful Vancouver who joined a planetary instrumentality enforcement delegation connected the March of the Living, said engagement with the Jewish assemblage is cardinal to policing.

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"A large portion of our enactment is to physique contacts and support beardown relationships done which we tin person information, supply proposal and guidance connected ensuring safety, and, if thing crosses the enactment into criminality, analyse it fully," helium said.

"I deliberation arsenic the years pass, less and less radical wrong the constabulary recognize what happened successful 1945 successful Europe. Being successful this programme and connected this march allows america to instrumentality and talk to our radical astir what I learned and observed, and they tin use it successful their day-to-day work," helium added.

Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress Israel Region, pointed to the caller synagogue shootings successful Toronto and criticized the government's effect arsenic insufficient.

"I would similar to spot the premier curate decently specify the occupation and halt pussyfooting around, pretending extremist Islam does not exist," Adams said.

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"We are nether attack. Foreign actors are operating successful Western countries successful 3 areas: they are sending extremist imams into mosques, they are investing monolithic amounts of wealth successful acquisition systems and they are targeting america connected societal media. I find the effect by Western leaders, with the objection of President Trump, to beryllium wholly lacking," helium said.

"Everyone successful the West needs to aftermath up. They are trying to instrumentality distant our freedom. It starts with the Jews but ne'er ends with the Jews," helium added.