CUPE Ontario Statement Holocaust Remembrance Day
On January 27th, Holocaust Remembrance Day, CUPE Ontario mourns the six million Jews and millions of “non-Aryans” targeted by the Nazis for extermination. The Nazis also massacred people with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, political dissidents, and trade unionists. The Holocaust began long before the death camps. It began by normalizing hate. It began when the government,…