First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I grew up seeing the familiar blue-ink tattoo B-7619 on the inner side of my father’s left forearm. He never talked about it but he didn’t hide it either. We only knew that the tattoo was related somehow to the Holocaust. My late father, Jerry Kapelus (born Jakob Kapelusz, he changed it when he immigrated) was born in Lodz, Poland. He was a child survivor of the Holocaust. In 1940, he and all...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
