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

AUSCHWITZ: A Holocaust survivor from Canada has warned astir increasing antisemitism successful his country, calling connected nan nation's leaders to return action against perpetrators.

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

The 98-year-old said he 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 nan March of nan Living for nan 22nd clip speaks astatine nan ceremonial that followed nan march successful Auschwitz-Birkenau connected Tuesday April 14, 2026.

"Once you suffer that, you nary longer cognize erstwhile aliases wherever nan adjacent onslaught mightiness occur. It is profoundly troubling to unrecorded successful a free, antiauthoritarian state — wherever everyone is meant to person adjacent authorities — and to beryllium persecuted successful this way," he 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, later immigrating to Canada successful 1948.

The only measurement to forestall history from repeating itself, he said, is to advocator for nan truth 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 guidelines up for our correct to unrecorded arsenic Jews successful immoderate country, including Israel, arsenic free citizens enjoying nan fruits of Western culture, of which we are part," he added.

Since nan Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Canada has seen a crisp rise successful antisemitism, pinch B’nai Brith Canada reporting 6,219 incidents successful 2024 — much than double nan number recorded successful 2022.

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

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Canadian Jewish communities are "extremely concerned" astir a surge successful antisemitism, a reality 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 nan caller attacks against synagogues arsenic very superior and considers Canada among nan high-risk countries successful position of shooting incidents."

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

Moed said Israel has offered to grow practice pinch 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 activity accountability is captious to confronting antisemitism.

"It is incumbent upon rule enforcement successful various countries to designate violent organizations, arsenic we person done pinch definite aspects of nan Muslim Brotherhood and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The world should do truthful collectively, and America is starring nan measurement 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 protect Jewish communities aft three synagogues successful nan Toronto area were deed by gunfire wrong conscionable 1 week.

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

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

"Confronting this situation is basal not only to protect nan Jewish community, but to safeguard nan early of nan Canadian measurement of life," he continued. "All levels of authorities must do much to protect Canadians, including ensuring robust and accordant enforcement of existing laws, improving transparency successful prosecutorial decisions, strengthening support – including financially – for organization security, and addressing nan drivers of radicalization successful Canada."

SanJaya Wijayakoon, an RCMP superintendent successful Vancouver who joined a global rule enforcement delegation connected nan March of nan Living, said engagement pinch nan Jewish organization is cardinal to policing.

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

"I deliberation arsenic nan years pass, less and less group wrong nan constabulary understand what happened successful 1945 successful Europe. Being successful this programme and connected this march allows america to return and speak to our group astir what I learned and observed, and they tin use it successful their day-to-day work," he added.

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

"I would for illustration to spot nan premier curate decently specify nan problem and extremity 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 money successful acquisition systems and they are targeting america connected societal media. I find nan consequence by Western leaders, pinch nan objection of President Trump, to beryllium wholly lacking," he said.

"Everyone successful nan West needs to aftermath up. They are trying to return distant our freedom. It starts pinch nan Jews but ne'er ends pinch nan Jews," he added.