“War is No Solution” – Remembering Lotta Hitschmanova on International Women’s Day 2026

It’s International Women’s Day – and here we are again – male leaders with raging voices have started yet another war. Today of all days, let us take a moment and listen to the voices of women instead.

Voices like beloved humanitarian Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990), a true “Soldier of Peace” whose spirit calls out to us here in Canada and around the world.

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Remembering Lotta on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (2021)

“There’s only one thing: to work, so that their sacrifice may not be in vain.”

Lotta Hitschmanova grew up in a loving Jewish family in Prague. She was forced to flee in 1938, and after years wandering as a refugee in western Europe, she arrived penniless in Canada in 1942.

In the summer of 1945, she learned the devastating news that her beloved parents (Max and Else Hitschmann) had perished in the Holocaust.

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