By Pepper Parr
January 28th, 2020
BURLINGTON, ON
Mayor Marianne Meed Ward asked Council to spend a minute in silence last night before council began deliberating on the people’s business.
The moment was to remember that 75 years ago the death camp at Auschwitz had been liberated by Russian forces
Council in a minute of silence to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
That event was the first time the public around the world had an inkling of what was going on. Millions of Jews were being exterminated by the Nazi’s.
It was one of her finer moments.
Earlier in the day the Gazette had reported that the Mayor’s office had turned down a request to lower the city’s flag in front of city hall to commemorate the anniversary.
The request for a minute of silence corrected that unfortunate error.
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Request to lower the flag denied.
