Founded in 1976, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre opens to the public on September 9, 1979. Montreal's Holocaust survivor community holds a commemorative march and carries an urn, filled with the ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau victims, to the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.
Holocaust survivors participate in a commemorative march during the inauguration of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, 1979. Tibor Weinberger carries an urn filled with the ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau victims. (MHM Collection, courtesy of Lou Zablow)