David Shentow

David Shentow (April 29, 1925 – June 12, 2017) was a Belgian-Canadian Holocaust survivor and educator, featured in Canadian films, books and articles.

[5][6] For "extraordinary community service to the citizens of the City of Ottawa, the Province of Ontario and Canada", the "David Shentow Park" was unveiled by Mayor Jim Watson (Canadian politician) on 11 September 2022.

His parents moved to Antwerp, Belgium where David attended the local Tachkemoni school and his sisters, Paula (Perel) and Esther were born.

From May 1942, Shentow and all Jewish citizens - including babies and young children - were forced to wear the yellow Star of David that segregated them for persecution.

[16] Shentow is the central figure in the Ottawa-born documentary Director Koa Padolsky's film Le Chemin des Juifs (2017),[17][18] which chronicles his Holocaust experiences during the war.

Over decades, hundreds of listeners became, as he termed it, "witnesses of the Holocaust" as Shentow shared his testimony in lectures at high schools, universities, police academies and for the Canadian military.