Holocaust remembrance group calls on Edmonton city leaders to rename street

A Canadian holocaust remembrance group is calling for a street in south Edmonton to be renamed.

They told CityNews the man it’s named after — Peter Savaryn — served under a Nazi military unit.

“We’ve known about him and his activities for many, many years — but we only learned that there was actually a street named after him in Edmonton two weeks ago,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, the senior director of policy & advocacy at Friends of Simons Wiesenthal Centre.

The street is in Edmonton’s Summerside neighbourhood and was named after former University of Alberta chancellor Peter Savaryn.

In recent weeks, an article in a Jewish American publication from New York City caught the attention of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Group — Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre — highlighting how the