Man accused in Holocaust Memorial vandalism is City of Ottawa lawyer on leave

It is an elite club, numbering 28,486 people from 51 countries, unimaginably courageous non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. They are the Righteous Among the Nations, honoured by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, on behalf of the State of Israel. The club was expanded last Thursday in Toronto when the honour was bestowed posthumously on two couples who sheltered Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland. “What did they have to lose? I would say everything,” said Elizabeth Quinlan, whose honoured grandparents, Eimericus and Anna Maria Tijssen,...