‘Graduating students at two Canadian high schools submitted Holocaust denial quotes in their yearbooks this spring — and the quotes were even published before the schools took action.

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Neli Shpoker heard about the incident through a parents’ Facebook group. Her son, who is in Grade 10 at West Bedford High School in Bedford, N.S., came home talking about it, as well.

The quote questions the figure six million — the documented number of Jews killed in the Holocaust — then offers a number 20 times smaller commonly used by Holocaust deniers.

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The school has apologized and recalled all the yearbooks, asking students to return them so they can be reprinted without the hateful quote. In an email to parents, the principal, Sean MacDonald, apologized for the “antisemitic and polarizing content.”

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Another quote, this time in the yearbook for Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, was also published undetected. Ryan Bird, a spokesperson for the Toronto District School Board, apologized for the antisemitic comment. He said students can voluntarily return their yearbooks for new versions.’

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Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director of policy at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization dedicated to Holocaust education, said she has been in touch with the school since the incident.

She said the quote questions whether the Holocaust happened and propagates hate against Jewish people.

The conspiracy theory states it was impossible for six million Jews to have been killed in concentration camps alone — a claim that was never made. Hundreds of thousands of Jews died in shootings and in the ghettos.’
-CBC