On April 29, 1945, then-war correspondent René Lévesque accompanied the first American unit that liberated the Dachau concentration camp. He described this day in his autobiography, published in 1986.

Yeprem Kerbekian was born in the Ottoman Empire in 1911 and lost his parents three years later. He lived in different orphanages funded by the Near East Relief organization before being sent to Georgetown, Ontario, in 1927. Source: © Zoryan Institute of Canada Inc.

Call for donations from the Armenian Relief Fund Association of Canada in The Globe, April 1917. Several campaigns of this type were launched in Canadian newspapers, in part to fund new orphanages. Source: The Globe and Mail

The Montreal Standard published a “Special Section on the Atrocities In German Concentration Camps,” fourteen days after the end of the Second World War, May 19, 1945. Source: MHMC

In 1980, Quebec photographer Claire Beaugrand-Champagne and her journalist sister visited refugee camps in Thailand. They published several articles on their visit in the newspaper La Presse. In this video, Claire talks about what she saw. Source: MHMC, 2015

Refugees in the hospital of the Sa Kaeo camp in Thailand. This photo, taken by photographer Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, was used to illustrate an article entitled “Cambodians Trapped by Terror,” La Presse, Montreal, Canada, April 7, 1980. Source: Private collection, Claire Beaugrand-Champagne

Child in a classroom at a camp for Cambodian refugees in Khao I Dang. Between April 5 and 12, 1980, La Presse published 7 pages of articles on the refugee camps in Thailand. The articles were written by Paule Beaugrand-Champagne and illustrated with photographs by Claire Beaugrand-Champagne.
Source: Private collection, Claire Beaugrand-Champagne

Ferdinand Nahimana founded the Radio Télévision des Milles Collines in Rwanda in 1993, a radio station that became an instrument of propaganda during the genocide. Nahimana was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha in 2003. Source: ICTR

Julius Streicher, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Der Stürmer, at the Nuremberg trial hearings in Germany, 1945. He was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.

Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at Holocaust rally in front of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, May 1965
Source: MHMC

On March 24 1996, CBC Radio’s Now The Details looks at how the western media misinterpreted and misreported the genocide in Rwanda. Source: CBC licensing Transcript