As Joni Mitchell once sang: “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Visiting family here in Edmonton from the U.K., I noticed two things that struck a…
A statue of Anne Frank was installed in Light Horse Park as a gift from the Dutch Canadian Club Edmonton to memorialize the Holocaust and the Canadian military’s contribution to liberating Holland during the Second World War.
EDMONTON A new statue of Anne Frank is set to be unveiled at Light Horse Park in Edmonton next weekend. The Dutch-Canadian club of Edmonton sponsored the statue, a replica of a work done in 1960 by Dutch sculptor Pieter d Hont. We re honoured to have a copy of it here, said John Stobbe with the club. It s going to be a wonderful new piece of public art and a tremendous way for the Dutch community to yet again say thank you to Canada. Frank died in the Holocaust but her diaries documenting her Jewish family s experience in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam were preserved.