This coming Sunday, the 27th of January, will be International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In anticipation of that event, Library and Archives Canada purchased a 137-page report compiled in 1944 by German
linguist and researcher Heinz Kloss. Kloss used 1930s population data to produce a personalized census of the Jewish population in North America, as well as information about Jewish organizations and newspapers.
The events of several weeks ago at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh came immediately to mind when I stumbled upon the mention of the Kloss compilation. L&A Canada plans to put selections from the report online shortly; I'll let you know when that happens. But even reading only the material linked to above will make your blood run cold.
As does the fact that. in 2018, about a third of Americans murdered by far-right extremists were Jewish .
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