2–9 November The Future of Memory

The Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, 

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto presents 

2–9 November 

The Future of Memory

15 000 

Every year, more than 15 000 students from across Ontario 

visit the Neuberger’s Holocaust museum, attend our educational events, 

and participate in HEW programs. 

www.holocaustcentre.com 

2 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week

holocaust education weeK 2016 

On behalf of our dedicated volunteer committee, loyal partners and sponsors, we are proud to 

welcome you to the 36th annual Holocaust Education Week, presented by the Neuberger Holocaust 

Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. 

Through the theme the Future of Memory, HEW 2016 will explore how future generations will 

perpetuate and innovate in the field of Holocaust education and remembrance. Whether through 

film, literature, art or new historical analysis, how the Holocaust is remembered in popular culture 

and the academic sphere will be of increasing relevance to the future of Holocaust studies and 

remembrance. This year, HEW explores how memory of the Holocaust will continue to adapt to a 

changing technological landscape, global context, and the impact of losing personal survivor accounts. 

Core to Neuberger HEW is to provide students and young people with opportunities to hear firsthand 

testimony from Holocaust survivor speakers. Sadly, today’s students will be among the last to 

experience these integral accounts in person. Though HEW 2016 looks to the future of Holocaust 

education, we are proud to offer the transformative power of testimony for as long as possible. It 

is to these survivors, with gratitude and respect, that we dedicate the Future of Memory. 

Holocaust Education Week would not be possible without the partnership of community members, 

generous sponsors, and audiences committed to fighting intolerance and discrimination through 

Holocaust education. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity and leadership of our diverse and 

dedicated HEW 2016 sponsors. 

We thank our presenters, volunteers, colleagues, partners, generous donors and ambassadors, 

Neuberger staff, and especially Holocaust survivor speakers, who founded this event in 1980 and who 

continue to inspire audiences with their dedication to Holocaust education in hope of building 

a better future. 

We are privileged to benefit from the dedicated leadership of our professional and advisory colleagues. 

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto is our sustaining supporter, enabling us to bring programming 

throughout the year to the community and beyond. Neuberger HEW 2016 offers you an outstanding 

selection of compelling, timely programs at venues across our city and region. Please join us for this 

very important and meaningful week. 

Dori Ekstein, Lily Kim, Lisa Richman 

2016 HEW Co-Chairs

Donors and Sponsors 

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our donors and sponsors whose support 

ensures that Neuberger HEW can present more than 100 outstanding free educational programs 

to thousands of community members in cultural, educational, spiritual and community 

centres throughout the GTA and surrounding region. 

PRESENTING SPONSORS 

The Elizabeth & Tony Comper Foundation 

Lead Sponsors 

Malka & Harry Rosenbaum 

media sponsors 

PUBLICATION SPONSOR Opening Night Sponsors Closing Night Sponsors 

Judy & Larry Tanenbaum 

and Family 

Myra & Joel York 

honey & barry sherman 

Consular Sponsors 

Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs 

of Hungary 

Consulate General 

of the united states 

Toronto, Canada 

Student Symposium Sponsors 

May & Fred Karp and Family 

Highlight Event Sponsors 

Fran & Ed Sonshine 

Scholar-in-Residence Sponsor 

Cohen Family Charitable Trust

Donors and Sponsors 

We gratefully acknowledge the 

following sponsors who made their 

generous contributions in support 

of the 2016 Neuberger Holocaust 

Education Week in honour or in 

memory of loved ones. Sponsors 

who made donations in support of 

specific programs have tribute 

wording listed at the individual 

program. 

Sylvia and Edward Fisch in honour 

of our children and grandchildren: 

Sherri, Darryl, Michelle, Randall, 

Adam, Marla, Zackary, Rachel, Aaron 

and Sidra. 

The Sam & Gitta Ganz Family 

Foundation in loving memory of 

Sam Ganz. 

Noah, Jessica & Daniel Geist in 

loving memory of their grandparents, 

Anna & David Geist, who survived 

the Holocaust to begin a new life in 

Canada. 

The Glick & Glicksman Families in 

loving memory of Max & Guta 

Glicksman and Rose & Morris Glick. 

Sharon and Norman Gottlieb in 

memory of Josef & Pauline Krystal. 

Lucille and David Griff in honour 

of Allan Weiss. 

Seymour Hershenfeld and Susan 

Weltman in honour of Edzia Weltman, 

a Holocaust survivor; in memory of 

Leon Weltman, a Holocaust survivor; 

and in memory of Sam & Freda 

Hershenfeld. 

Edna and David Magder in memory 

of her grandmother, Reisl Chana 

Brodi, and grandfather, Marc 

Weissman, who were murdered in 

the Holocaust. 

Rapoport and Rosenthal families 

in honour of Mania Rapoport and in 

memory of Jack Rapoport, both 

Holocaust survivors. 

Aida and Avie Seetner in memory 

of Anna-Lea Katz and Hyman Katz. 

Frieda and Leslie Sherman in memory 

of Sam & Ann Salcman. 

Carole and Jay Sterling in memory 

of Ralph F. Dankner. 

Martha Sud and sons Avrom, 

Howard, Elliott and Warren Sud 

in memory of beloved husband 

and father, David Sud. 

Reesa and Avrom Sud in memory 

of David Sud who perished in 

the Holocaust and in memory of 

Louis Hotz. 

Celine Szoges in memory of her 

grandparents, Johan Spitznal & 

Elizabeth Schwartz. 

Nancy and Philip Turk in memory 

of the 6 million. 

Rosie Uster, Phyllis Gould and Sandra 

Srebrolow in honour of our loving 

parents, Helen & Mayer Fogel. 

Glenda and Alan Wainer in memory 

of Leisor & Ann Wainer and David & 

Diane Tessler. 

Keynote Event Sponsors 

Tammy & Jerry Balitsky 

The Brown and Lindenberg Families 

Gail & Stanley Debow 

The Sam & Gitta Ganz 

Family Foundation 

The Glick & Glicksman Families 

The Greenbaum Family 

Dorothy & Pinchas Gutter 

Robin & Eran Hayeems 

Donna & Richard Holbrook 

Joy Kaufman, Eric, Lindsay 

and Loren Cohen 

Janice & Howard Langer 

Naomi Rifkind Mansell 

& David Mansell 

Eleanor & Martin Maxwell with 

Scotia Bank, Bathurst/Sheppard 

Branch 

Joyce & Aaron Rifkind 

The Gerald Schwartz & Heather 

Reisman Foundation 

Rhonda Silverstone & Nathan 

Rapoport 

Sally & Mark Zigler 

Survivor Testimony Sponsors 

Anonymous 

Helena & Jeffrey Axler, Feiga Glazer, 

Gerry Glazer & Lilliane Perez-Glazer 

Cansew Inc. 

Circle of Care 

DH Gales Family Charitable 

Foundation of Toronto 

Marina & Jon Geist 

Ernest & Barbara Goldenberg 

Endowment Fund 

Liddy Beck & Steven Gottesman 

and Rina & Irving Gottesman 

Stephen Greenberg 

Roslyn & Ralph Halbert 

Edna & David Magder 

Maybird Investments Ltd. 

Julia & Henry Koschitzky 

Leboff Family Charitable Foundation 

Bonnie & Larry Moncik 

and Eleanor & George Getzler 

Yigal Rifkind 

Carole & Jay Sterling 

Helen Stollar 

Reesa & Avrom Sud 

Nancy & Philip Turk 

Jeff and Annalee Wagman, 

Echelon Wealth Partners 

Glenda & Alan Wainer 

Wendy & Richard Wengle 

Ernie Weiss Memorial Fund 

“In the Schools” Sponsors 

Pamela & Paul Austin 

Deborah Berlach & Ron Csillag 

Erika Biro 

The Abraham Bleeman Foundation 

Jack Chisvin 

Anita Ekstein and Family 

Shelley & Steven Ekstein 

and Nili & Paul Ekstein 

Dori & Ari Ekstein 

Sylvia & Edward Fisch 

The Frankel Family Foundation 

The Lillian and Norman Glowinsky 


GRA Charitable Trust 

Lucille & David Griff 

Sheri Griffiths, BMO Bank of Montreal 

Commercial Banking 

Susan Weltman & Seymour 

Hershenfeld 

Jewish War Veterans of Canada 

Lily & Daniel Kim 

Perri-Anne & Charles Magerman 

Ellen & Shawn Marr 

Crowe Soberman LLP 

Danny Pivnick 

The Rash Family 

Doris & Rammy Rochman 

Lorraine & Alan Sandler 

Judy & Les Scheininger 

Anne & Jeff Schwartz 

Aida & Avron Seetner 

Mary Seldon & Family 

Stacey Shein & Mayer Pearl 

Frieda & Leslie Sherman 

The Nathan & Lily Silver 


Guido Smit 

Martha Sud 

Celine Szoges 

Van Rijk Jewellers Inc. 

Nita Wexler & Hartley Hershenhorn 

“2G” Symposium Sponsors 

Lead Sponsors 

Canadian Jewish Holocaust 

Survivors and Descendants 

Marilyn & Stephen Sinclair 

Speaker Sponsors 

Ruth Ekstein & Alan 

Lechem, Lillian & Rick Ekstein, 

Stella & Peter Ekstein 

Glied-Goldstein Family 

The Gottdenker Family Trust 

Larry & Frieda Torkin 

and Family 

Rochelle Reichert 

& Henry Wolfond 

Workshop Sponsors 

Tammy & Jerry Balitsky 

The Blankenstein 


Marlene Brickman 

Edell Family Foundation 

Marika & Bill Glied 

Susan & Jack Kahn 

Felicia & David Posluns, 

Barry & Nelly Zagdanski, 

Ian & Sara Zagdanski 

Lisa Richman 

& Steven Kelman 

Supporters 

Hilda & Jerry Cohen 

Ari & Dori Ekstein & Family 

Esther & Albert Michaels 

Faye Minuk 

Sarah & Morris Perlis 

Annette Sacks 

Hinda & Alan Silber 

Charlotte & Ken Tessis 

with Gail & Aubrey Appel 

Dorothy Tessis and Family 

Ulmer Charitable Foundation

Letters 

It is with great solemnity that I join everyone 

in commemorating the Holocaust 

during Holocaust Education Week. 

This week allows us the opportunity to 

deepen our understanding of the Holocaust, 

a tragic action of hate and bigotry. 

We stand together in remembrance for 

the millions of Jews and countless others 

who were murdered during the Holocaust 

and honour those who survived the Nazi 

atrocities. 

As we reflect on the painful lessons of the 

Holocaust, we recognize that our deeper 

knowledge of the event strengthens our 

commitment to never stand silently in the 

face of violence or hate in any form. It is 

important that we honour the memories 

of the Holocaust victims by educating 

successive generations and ensuring that 

we continue to defend the rights of our 

fellow humans. 

Thank you to the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger 

Holocaust Education Centre for 

organizing this important initiative. Please 

accept my best wishes for a productive and 

illuminating Holocaust Education Week. 

Justin Trudeau 

Prime Minister 

Ottawa 

2016 

On behalf of the Government of Ontario, 

I am honoured to extend warm wishes 

to everyone marking Holocaust Education 

Week. 

This year’s theme—The Future of Memory 

—highlights the importance of preserving 

Holocaust testimony, documentation 

and interpretation for future generations. 

History is a great teacher, for those who 

have the commitment and openness to 

learn from the past. In the words of Winston 

Churchill: “The longer you can look back, 

the farther you can look forward.” I am 

grateful to the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger 

Holocaust Education Centre for its dedication 

to promoting knowledge and understanding 

about the Holocaust through its 

museum and programs such as Holocaust 

Education Week. 

Only by studying and learning from one 

of the darkest moments in human history, 

can we learn to be vigilant against all forms 

of hatred and intolerance — and to cultivate 

mutual respect and understanding 

in our institutions and interactions. 

Please accept my best wishes for a meaningful 

Holocaust Education Week. 

Kathleen Wynne 

Premier 

I would like to welcome everyone attending 

Holocaust Education Week hosted by 

the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust 

Education Centre of UJA Federation of 

Greater Toronto. 

The 2016 theme of Holocaust Education 

Week is The Future of Memory. During 

Holocaust Education Week, people will 

gain a broader understanding of the Holocaust 

by engaging in cultural and literary 

analysis and through inquiry-based learning 

where a new generation will be able 

to hear firsthand accounts from Holocaust 

survivors. 

The anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night 

of Broken Glass, will also be commemorated 

during Holocaust Education Week. 

On behalf of Toronto City Council, I thank 

all those involved in organizing this 

event. Please accept my best wishes for 

continued success. 

Yours, 

Mayor John Tory 

City of Toronto 


Letters 

On behalf of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, we are honoured 

to welcome you to the 36th Annual Holocaust Education Week, 

the signature annual program of UJA’s Neuberger Holocaust 

Education Centre. Attracting more than 35,000 diverse individuals 

from across the GTA, Holocaust Education Week is a multifaceted 

event recognized worldwide for excellence. It builds upon 

the mission of its founders in teaching the history and legacy of 

the Shoah to new generations in new and engaging ways. We are 

proud to present a program with such an incredible range of 

community partners and participants. 

This year’s program, on the theme of The Future of Memory, opens 

up a wide discussion on how the Shoah will be remembered, 

studied, examined and honoured in the years to come. This is an 

incredibly valuable topic given our commitment to supporting 

the next generation on their Jewish journeys. It allows us to 

deeply consider and reflect on our dedication to providing new 

generations with the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts from 

those who survived the Shoah. This year’s event features more 

than 100 programs, including 50 programs featuring survivor 

speakers. UJA Federation is proud to support Holocaust Education 

Week and participate in it. We invite you and your families to 

join us. 

Sincerely, 

Morris Perlis 

Chair of the Board 

Adam Minsky 

President & CEO 

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto 

Since its founding by the survivor community in 1985, the Sarah 

and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre has had the 

privilege of providing thousands of students with the opportunity 

to learn first-hand about the experiences of survivors. And, at the 

Neuberger, we are incredibly thankful for the survivors’ courage 

and dedication to sharing their stories. Providing these opportunities 

has remained at the core of all of our work. As a result, the 

Neuberger is committed to thinking deeply about the future 

of memory and to working with educators and institutions from 

around the globe to consider and strategize new and innovative 

approaches. The role of the Neuberger, community partners and 

sponsors in sustaining Holocaust Education Week becomes 

even more important as we move further away from the Shoah. 

We are grateful for our sustaining partner, UJA Federation of 

Greater Toronto, and for the generosity of the Elizabeth and Tony 

Comper Foundation, Malka and Harry Rosenbaum, and the 

Azrieli Foundation. We are also deeply appreciative of our partnership 

with the Azrieli Foundation who generously provide 

survivor memoirs free of charge to program participants. 

Special recognition goes to HEW co-chairs Dori Ekstein, Lily Kim, 

and Lisa Richman. We are privileged to benefit from the commitment 

of our professional and advisory colleagues, especially 

Marilyn Sinclair, Immediate Past Chair. I also want to recognize 

the tirelessly committed Neuberger staff, Carson Phillips, Rachel 

Libman, Mary Siklos, Michelle Fishman, Kit MacManus, Iris 

Glesinger, Anna Skorupsky, and Austrian intern Lorenz Glettler. 

I also want to welcome Dara Solomon, our interim director, who 

has just joined this wonderful team. I look forward to seeing you 

at HEW 2016. 

Shael Rosenbaum 

Chair, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger 

Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation 

Neuberger Holocaust Education Week 5

at a Glance 

The Neuberger HEC education 

and program staff, along 

with experts and advisors in the 

field, curated this selection of 

programs for the 2016 Holocaust 

Education Week. 

This publication is co-sponsored 

by Judy and Larry Tanenbaum 

and family in memory of Fanny 

& Jacob Silberman, their son 

Julius, and Fanny’s mother 

Zysla Krongold—with profound 

respect and gratitude for the 

lessons they taught and the 

courageous optimism with which 

they taught them. 

PRE-HEW PROGRAM 

Tuesday 

1 November 

9:00 AM–4:00 PM 

WORKSHOP 

Educator Development 

Workshop on the Holocaust 

Facilitated by Kelly Watson 

and Michelle Fishman 

Page 14 

Community program listings 

are included in date order 

beginning on page 42. 

“2G” Symposium | P18 

Wednesday 


FEATURED EXHIBIT 

Eternal Light 

On view through November 30 

Amy Friend 

Page 15 

7:30 PM 

OPENING NIGHT 

Between Tragedy and Farce: 

Normalizing Nazism on the 

Internet 

Featuring Gavriel D. Rosenfeld 

in conversation with Ron Levi 

Page 8 

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR 

TESTIMONY PROGRAMS 

2–14 November 

In Conversation with 

Holocaust Survivors 

In libraries and schools 

across the GTA 

Neuberger HEW 2016 includes 

a wide selection of library, 

school and survivor testimony 

programs, listed on pages 32–41. 

Thursday 


7:30 PM 

LITERARY 

The Power of Memoir and 

Storytelling: How do we 

Teach Others about the Pain 

of the Past? 

Featuring authors Nate Leipciger 

and Theodore Fontaine 

Page 16 

Friday 


12:00 PM 

LUNCH ‘N LEARN 

The Swiss Banks Holocaust 

Litigation and Settlement: 

What Can we Learn from the 

Proposals to Allocate Residual 

Funds? 

Featuring Ron Levi 

Page 17 

Cover Image: In an HEW-commissioned series, visual artist Amy Friend 

explored the early 20th century collections of the Ontario Jewish 

Archives. The archivists believe that this photograph, along with several 

others included in the Eternal Light exhibit, comes from Vilnius, 

Lithuania, circa 1920s. For more information see pages 15, 26–31. 

For program changes visit: 

holocausteducationweek.com 

or call 416–631–5689. 


at a Glance 

Saturday 


Monday 


8:00 PM 

LITERARY 

My Grandfather Would 

Have Shot Me: A Black Woman 

Discovers Her Family’s 

Nazi Past 

Featuring Jennifer Teege 

Page 17 

Sunday 


9:30AM–3:30 PM 

SYMPOSIUM 

Dialogue for Descendants: 

“Second Generation” (2G) 

Symposium for Children of 

Holocaust Survivors 

Featuring workshops and 

keynotes from Paula Draper 

and Paula David 

Page 18 

11:00 AM 

SYMPOSIUM 

Legacy Symposium 

for Young Professionals 

Featuring workshops and 

keynote from Pinchas Gutter 

and Stephen Smith 

Page 19 

7:30 PM 

CONCERT 

Music of Another World— 

Szymon Laks: 1901–1983 

Featuring Simon Wynberg 

and the ARC Ensemble 

Page 20 

SON OF SAUL | P22 

10:00 AM–4:00 PM 

WORKSHOPS 

Personal Access 

to the ITS Archive 

With Diane Afoumado 

Page 21 

12:00 PM 


Addressing Austria’s Past: 

Responsibility, Remembrance 

and Restitution 

Featuring Hannah Lessing 

Page 21 

4:00 PM 

PANEL 

The Future of 

Holocaust Memory 

Panelists: Karen Jungblut, 

Pinchas Gutter, Alice 

Herscovitch, Jody Spiegel; 

moderated by Anna Shternshis 

Page 22 

7:30 PM 

FILM 

Son of Saul 

With Laszlo Rajk 

Page 22 

Tuesday 


9:30 AM 

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM 

Exploring the Future of 

Holocaust Education through 

Survivor Testimony: 36th 

Annual Student Symposium 

on the Holocaust 

With Michael Gray, Karen 

Jungblut, Kia Hays, and 

Pinchas Gutter 

Page 23 

4:00 PM 

PANEL 

History and Imagination: 

The Place of Literature in 

Holocaust Remembrance 

Moderated by Sara Horowitz 

Page 24 

7:00 PM 

FILM 

Memory After Belsen 

With Edward Sonshine 

and Henri Lustiger Thaler 

Page 24 

Memoir & Storytelling | P16 

Wednesday 


3:00 PM 

PANEL 

Community Safety, 

Insecurity, and Radicalization: 

Holocaust Memory and 

Education in the 21st Century 

Chaired by Ron Levi 

Page 24 

8:00 PM 

CLOSING NIGHT 

Bringing the Rimonim Home: 

A Personal Restitution Journey 

Featuring Hannah Lessing 

Page 9 

POST-HEW PROGRAM 

Thursday 


1:00 PM 


Exploring the Future of 

Holocaust Education in a 

Contemporary Setting 

With Michael Gray 

Page 25 


opening night 

Between Tragedy and Farce: 

Normalizing Nazism on the Internet 

Wednesday, 2 November, 7:30 PM 

In an illustrated lecture, Gavriel Rosenfeld will address the 

Holocaust Education Week theme of “The Future of Memory” 

by explaining how the history of the Third Reich is being 

“normalized” in contemporary culture. Drawing on his recent 

book, Hi Hitler!, Rosenfeld will show how the Nazi legacy is 

being portrayed on the Internet. He will explain how the World 

Wide Web presents both unprecedented opportunities and 

dangers for memory. While the web offers up new possibilities 

for educating people about the Nazi legacy, it simultaneously 

promotes its trivialization. 

Following the talk, Professor Ron Levi, HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence, will moderate a 

compelling and timely discussion with Professor Rosenfeld about the inflated place of Hitler, 

Nazism, and fascism in present-day western political discourse. Opening night of HEW will 

launch the week of programs with a thoughtful exploration of our understanding of current 

memory of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and its consequences. 

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at 

Fairfield University. He is the author of Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in 

Contemporary Culture (2015), Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory 

of the Holocaust (2011), The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory 

of Nazism (2005), Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy of the 

Third Reich (2000), and the forthcoming edited collection, What Ifs of Jewish History: 

From Abraham to Zionism (2016). He is a frequent contributor to the Forward 

newspaper and edits the blog, The Counterfactual History Review. 

Wednesday, 2 November | 7:30 PM 

Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue 

100 Elder Street | Toronto 

416–633–3838 

Hipster Hitler is a comic 

that satirizes both hipster 

culture and the exploits 

of the Third Reich using 

a combination of puns, 

parody, dark humor, 

anachronisms, and visual 

gags. In this image, Hitler 

is illustrated as a bespectacled, 

skinny-jeans-wearing 

urbanite. His t-shirt is 

a play on the name of a 

popular indie-rock band, 

Arcade Fire. 

Image courtesy of HipsterHitler.com. 

Opening night of Holocaust Education Week 

is generously co-sponsored by Myra & Joel 

York and family, in loving memory of Sarah 

and Chaim Neuberger. 

The 2016 HEW Scholar-in-Residence is 

generously sponsored by the Cohen Family 

Charitable Trust. 


closing night 

Bringing the Rimonim Home: 

A Personal Restitution Journey 

Wednesday, 9 November, 8:00 PM 

In honour of closing night of Holocaust Education Week, Austrian 

National Fund director Hannah Lessing shares the compelling 

account of an unexpected and personal act of restitution. More 

than 75 years after Kristallnacht, Lessing discovered that a pair of 

silver Torah finials (rimonim) originally owned by her family was 

included in an Israeli auction house catalogue. Looted by the Nazis 

from a Vienna synagogue during the massive pogroms that took 

place on November 9–10, 1938, the finials appeared to have been 

purchased in good faith as part of a Judaica collection. Lessing will 

share the story of the discovery of the Judaica and her journey to 

bring them home to her 92-year-old father, photographer Erich 

Lessing, the sole survivor of his family. On the 78th anniversary 

of the Kristallnacht pogrom, this program will explore the 

ongoing relevance of restitution on a personal, national and 

global scale, and the lingering impact of the events of 

Kristallnacht generations later. 

Hannah Lessing is Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria and 

the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism, as well as the Fund for the 

Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria. The National Fund of the Republic of Austria 

for Victims of National Socialism awards a symbolic payment to persons of Austrian origin 

who were persecuted by the National Socialist Regime during the Second World War. 

She is responsible for the administrative and organizational management of the three 

funds, which carry out their work in remembrance of the victims. She is co-head of the 

Austrian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) 

and a highly sought after international speaker. Last year, she curated an exhibition 

of her father’s photography at the Jewish Museum Vienna. 

Closing Night of HEW will also include a candle-lighting ceremony commemorating 

the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht. 


Temple Sinai 

210 Wilson Avenue | Toronto 

416–487–4161 

Closing Night of Holocaust Education Week is 

generously co-sponsored by Apotex Foundation, 

Honey & Barry Sherman; by Eleanor & Martin 

Maxwell, in memory of his sisters, Josephine 

and Erna Meisels, who died in the Holocaust; 

and by Scotiabank Bathurst & Sheppard Branch. 


scholar-in-residence 

“Holocaust memory 

is being relied on 

to counter antisemitism, 

racism, and struggles 

for community safety 

in our present” 

“Does the world know what happened to us?”, survivors of 

Buchenwald are recalled asking, on the day US troops entered the 

camp in April 1945 (Fox 2013). How all the more unspeakable, 

then, that among the dead of Buchenwald was Maurice Halbwachs, 

the French sociologist whose signal contribution was giving life 

to the concept of “collective memory,” by which he meant the 

social process of witnessing, remembering, and commemorating 

the past (Halbwachs 1950). One of Halbwachs’s core ideas is that 

collective memory is something we must engage in actively, to 

build connections that bridge the past with the present. 

This year’s Holocaust Education Week focuses on “the future of 

memory.” This is a particularly poignant year to be asking this 

question, as we collectively reel from the death of Elie Wiesel. 

Wiesel, himself a survivor of Buchenwald, represented the moral 

imperative of Holocaust memory: “I have tried to keep memory 

alive,” Wiesel explained in his Nobel Acceptance Speech, “[b]ecause 

if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices” (Wiesel 1986). 

How, we are now being asked, will the Holocaust be remembered 

in the future? How will the Holocaust be recalled in popular 

culture, in artistic practice, in memorials, or in academic research? 

And, I would add—following Halbwachs—how is Holocaust memory 

reflected and made collective in our present? 

Take the recent genocide trial, in France, of a Rwandan national 

Pascal Simbikangwa, who had been captain of the Presidential 

Guard in Rwanda. Simbikangwa was convicted in 2014 by the 

cour d’assises in Paris for his complicity in the Rwandan genocide. 

The very fact of this trial stems from a legal path that includes 

the Eichmann trial in the District Court of Jerusalem. Yet the 

Holocaust also figures more expressly: lawyer David Reingewirtz’s 

court pleadings that opened by discussing Joseph Kessel, a founding 

member of the International League against Racism and 

Anti-Semitism, who reported for France Soir during the Nuremberg 

Trial; and most vividly, the presence in the trial audience of 

Holocaust survivors such as the now deceased Léon Zyguel (who 

had earlier testified in the Papon trial about the camps), representatives 

of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from 

France, and representatives of the association Buchenwald, all of 

whom attended this trial at the Boulevard du Palais in solidarity 

for the victims of the Rwandan genocide. The point here is that 

the memory of the Shoah was vivid in the proceedings, whether 

through legal precedent, the oral pleadings, or through individuals 

in their attendance at trial. 

Or take the Swiss Bank Holocaust-era litigation, a class action 

lawsuit that began in the US Federal Courts in 1996. Much of 

this famous litigation turned on locating owners and claims to 

redress. But there was another dimension to this litigation that 

gained less attention: submissions from civil society organizations 

worldwide to a “residual fund” available from the litigation. The 

Court decided to rely on these funds for the neediest of Holocaust 

survivors: yet what is also crucial about these submissions is 

that they provide insight into another dimension of the future of 

memory. Since these submissions were not based on the historical 

record of ownership, they proposed uses of these funds for projects—for 

survivors, for their heirs, for ravaged communities, and 

for memorial and educational opportunities. As a result, these 


Scholar-In-Residence 

Programming 

Opening Night | Wednesday, 2 November 

Between Tragedy and Farce: Normalizing Nazism on the Internet 

See p. 8 for more information. 

proposals offer insight into a future of memory, in which new 

projects were motivated by what philosopher Jeremy Waldron 

(1992) calls our “moral understanding of the past.” The point here 

is that this legal conversation relied on a moral understanding of 

the past to propose new projects that could honour Holocaust 

memory, and that such engagement is also part of the process of 

collective memory in the present. 

As we look elsewhere, other modes of collective memory abound. 

Take the legal growth of international courts to respond to genocide, 

war crimes, and crimes against humanity. On 21 November 1945, 

the opening of the Nuremberg Trial was reported on the front 

page of the New York Times, above the fold: but in a thin column 

that was largely outflanked by other stories (McLaughlin 1945). 

In contrast, decades later the Chief Prosecutor of the International 

Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia—reflected that “I 

think about Nuremberg every day! The images constantly come 

to mind” (Paris 2001). Of course new courts, such as the International 

Criminal Court, operate in different situations and political 

environments, and there isn’t a straight line that connects them 

all. Yet all trace their lineage to the Nuremberg Trial. 

We also see Holocaust programming working to address new 

struggles of community safety and antisemitism in Europe. When 

Jacques Fredj, who is the director of the mémorial de la Shoah in 

France, indicates in the days following the attacks on Charlie 

Hebdo and the HyperCacher that Shoah education is crucial for 

combatting antisemitism and racism—this is precisely collective 

memory at work (Fredj 2015). The continued and present importance 

of Holocaust memory was also evident in the First Annual 

Colloquium on Fundamental Rights of the European Commission 

last year, including among its action items Holocaust education 

and criminalizing Holocaust denial as hate speech. The point here 

is that Holocaust memory is being relied on to counter antisemitism, 

racism, and struggles for community safety in our present. 

I would add something else. My examples above tend to focus 

on cases from law and from community safety. There is a reason 

for this: I am honoured to be a scholar in residence of Holocaust 

Lunch ‘N Learn | Friday, 4 November 

The Swiss Banks Holocaust Litigation and Settlement: 

What Can we Learn from the Proposals to Allocate Residual Funds? 


Panel Discussion | Wednesday, 9 November 

Community Safety, Insecurity, and Radicalization: 

Holocaust Memory and Education in the 21st Century 


HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence is generously sponsored 

by the Cohen Family Charitable Trust. 

Education Week who is trained in law and sociology. Indeed, my 

impression is that there is ever greater attention to the Holocaust 

and to Holocaust memory across academic disciplines. Law is, 

to be sure, one institution through which collective memory is 

transmitted, including through trials, but it is not the only one. 

This year’s program engages the future of memory in the overwhelming 

absence of Elie Wiesel. This is profoundly disorienting. 

Wiesel’s voice has been at the core of our collective memory of 

the Holocaust, and his work provides us with the intellectual and 

moral resources to continue the social process of remembering. 

Such memory is, in Wiesel’s (2009) terms, a “sacred duty of all 

people of good will.” 

Collective memory, Wiesel insists, is our moral imperative. In 

commemorating the life of Maurice Halbwachs, the French sociologist 

Pierre Bourdieu (1987) insisted that our duty is to continuously 

take up the work of collective memory that engaged him 

and remember the violence that ended it. So I point you to the 

pages that follow as you consider how attention to Holocaust 

memory—testimony and our collective memory—is developed 

throughout the program, engages us, and shapes our present. 

Neuberger HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence 

Professor Ron Levi holds the George Ignatieff Chair 

of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of 

Toronto, where he serves as Deputy Director of the 

Munk School of Global Affairs. 


educator-in-residence 

“Can the testimonies of 

survivors really compete 

with the ubiquity of 

updates and messages 

flooding an individual’s 

personal devices?” 

In the immediate years after 1945, the systematic murder of 

Europe’s Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during the 

Second World War was rarely considered as an entity in its own 

right. During the 1950s the genocide was rarely found on the 

educational agenda including those in Israel and among Jewish 

communities in the USA. Various events proved significant in 

framing the Nazi destruction of European Jewry as “the Holocaust” 

and augmenting it within western consciousness as a historical 

phenomenon of universal relevance and moral importance. These 

events included the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961; 

the broadcasting of the mini-series Holocaust on NBC in 1978, as 

well as the release of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and the opening 

of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington 

DC, both of which took place in 1993. The 71 years that have now 

elapsed since the liberation of the camps by Allied troops have 

witnessed an evolutionary journey in how the Holocaust is remembered, 

taught and memorialised by students, academics and the 

public, within schools, universities, museums and wider society. 

There is no reason to suggest this evolution will not continue 

and there is much cause for optimism regarding the future of 

Holocaust memory. The western world has dedicated centres for 

the study of the Holocaust, a corpus of scholarship and literature 

now reaching tens of thousands of titles and ever growing access 

to learning opportunities. The power and innovation of new 

technologies are also being harnessed to facilitate greater access 

to the records of the past. This is particularly true of survivor testimonies. 

The archive of the USC Shoah Foundation has around 

52,000 testimonies from 57 countries in 33 languages, a collection 

that would take over 12 years to watch in its entirety. Particularly 

pioneering is the New Dimensions in Testimony, which enables 

Holocaust survivors to appear as a 3D hologram-like digital projection 

and interact with students of the future [testimony collection 

access coming soon to the Neuberger’s Ekstein Holocaust 

Resource Library; demo of the NDT program also coming soon 

to the Neuberger]. Other developments have come through 

engaging with young people via social media platforms as well 

as applications for mobiles and tablets which enhance visits to 

museums and historical sites. 

Yet as we enter a post-survivor era, Holocaust memory faces 

new challenges. Will generations that are increasingly removed 

from the events of the Second World War be similarly removed 

in their levels of emotional engagement and interest? Does the 

market competition for consumers’ attention crowd out the 

memory of the Holocaust in a world that looks to the future more 

than it remembers the past? Can the testimonies of survivors 

really compete with the ubiquity of updates and messages flooding 

an individual’s personal devices? 

Thankfully, Holocaust consciousness is deeply engrained within 

the popular psyche through poignant memorials, days of remembrance 

and the commitment of regional bodies, national governments 

and supranational organisations. Despite the challenges 

posed by an ever-evolving society and a post-Holocaust generation, 

the survival of Holocaust memory is not really in question. More 

pressing therefore is the issue of what form that memory takes 

and how we as a society choose to reflect upon it. My concern is 


Educator-In-Residence 

Programming 

Young Professionals’ Symposium | Sunday, 6 November 

The seventh annual symposium features engaging workshops 

that invite participants in their 20s and 30s to explore the future 

of Holocaust memory from different perspectives. See p. 19 for 

more information. 

Student Symposium | Tuesday, 8 November 

Dr. Gray will address learning about the Holocaust in contemporary 

settings as we face a pivotal point in Holocaust education—a future 

without survivors. Followed by interactive workshops and a closing 

keynote. See p. 23 for more information. 

Lunch ‘N Learn | Thursday, 10 November 

Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting. 

Dr. Gray will share some of his research in this area and illuminate 

possible opportunities and challenges for the future. See p. 25 for more 

information. 

that the popularity of the theme as a narrative in literature and 

film means that authors and producers might drive popular understanding 

of the Holocaust into an ethereal realm devoid of context 

or historical meaning. Alongside this is the danger that the 

Holocaust becomes simplified, trivialised and essentially reduced 

to a series of neatly compacted moral lessons which promote a 

specific educational or national agenda. 

Dealing effectively with these challenges, as well as those of 

engaging a post-survivor generation, means imparting meaning 

into the Holocaust which transcends generational difference. 

This involves students engaging with individual stories and the 

themes that make up our shared human experiences. Grounded 

within a specific historical context they must hear tales of love 

and hatred, narratives of fellowship and separation, and accounts 

of life and death. Rather than see Europe’s Jews as a homogenous 

group awaiting inevitable annihilation, Holocaust pedagogy must 

expound the complexities and variety of Jewish experiences, the 

agency and choices that were made by victims, bystanders, collaborators 

and perpetrators, as well as the conceptual difficulties 

with such terms. Practitioners must discuss the decision-making 

processes that led to a policy of systematic murder, the catalysing 

effect of war and how choices must be understood within a unique 

matrix of political, economic and environmental relationships. 

Historians do not have a monopoly on the Holocaust or the future 

of its memory. Theologians, psychologists, writers and musicians 

amongst others must all add their own perspectives and interpretations 

and the field is substantially richer for their contributions. 

Yet these other approaches must not detach the Holocaust from 

its context or remove it from its historical specificity. 

A study of the Holocaust that recognises its complexities and 

sophistications and which refuses to ignore them, though they 

be difficult to understand, is the only appropriate foundation for 

the future of Holocaust memory. As a post-survivor generation 

takes up the challenge of continuing that memory, it inherits a 

legacy from the survivor community which is the depth and detail 

of their historical testimonies. These will inevitably play a key 

role in combining the historical with the human and the process 

with the personal. Though not present in body, their stories will 

no doubt live on and provide an absorbing and unique set of 

insights into what remains one of the most macabre, devastating, 

and yet compelling chapters of human history. The form that 

Holocaust memory takes in the future is impossible to foretell 

and likely to continue to manifest itself in different ways depending 

on time and place. Yet to be true to itself and to the individuals 

who lived through it or perished during it, the memory of the 

Holocaust must remain rooted and grounded in a historical understanding 

and the past. This is the duty of educators and scholars 

everywhere. 

Neuberger HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence 

Dr. Michael Gray is Head of Government and 

Politics and teacher of History at Harrow School 

in London. 


curated programs 

The Neuberger HEC education and program staff, 

along with experts and advisors in the field, 

curated this selection of programs for the 2016 

Holocaust Education Week. 

Image courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

Educator Development Workshop on the Holocaust 

In cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Neuberger Holocaust Education 

Centre presents a one-day professional development event that will provide teachers with resources and 

pedagogical approaches to teach about the Holocaust. Led by Kelly Watson, USHMM Regional Education 

Corps, and Michelle Fishman, Education Associate at the Neuberger. 

The workshop is open to middle school, high school, and community college educators. Participants will receive books and resources 

from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Breakfast and lunch included. Advance registration required. 

Generously co-sponsored by Janice & Howard Langer in honour of their children and grandchildren. 

Tuesday, 1 November | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM 

Lipa Green Building | Tamari Hall | 4600 Bathurst Street | Toronto 

Free | Registration Required: holocaustcentre.com/Workshops 



featured EXHIBIT 

Eternal Light 

In Jewish tradition, the death of a loved one is commemorated by the lighting of a yahrzeit candle, 

often with a prayer which begins with a passage from Proverbs, “. . . the lamp of the Eternal is the soul 

of humanity . . .” For most Jews who perished in the Holocaust and so many who died before, there are 

no surviving family members to observe these rituals. And so it falls to future generations. For a visual 

interpretation of the theme Future of Memory, Neuberger HEW commissioned St. Catharines-based 

artist Amy Friend. Exploring the notion of light, as she has done previously in her Dare Alla Luce series, 

Friend used archival photographs of European Jewry before the Shoah to create a poignant and eternal 

tribute to life, love, and loss. 

HEW Featured Visual Artist Amy Friend is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Brock University and a multimedia artist who 

exhibits and publishes her work internationally. She has been selected as a top 50 photographer by Critical Mass International 

Photography Competition for three years running and a Time Inc. Top Magazine Cover Pick for 2015. Amy Friend is represented 

by C3 Arts. 

Curated by Mira Goldfarb. Archival images courtesy of Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre. 

Generously co-sponsored by Sally & Mark Zigler in honour of their parents, Fanny & Bernard Dov Laufer and Etty & Salo Zigler. 

2–30 November 

Monday–Friday 9:00 am–9:00 pm; Saturday–Sunday 9:00 am–7:00 pm 

Miles Nadal JCC—The Gallery at the J | 750 Spadina Avenue | Toronto | 416–924–6211 



The Power of Memoir and Storytelling: 

How do we Teach Others about the Pain 

of the Past? 

Explore two distinct narratives that examine loss, trauma 

and the use of memoir in the journey toward healing. 

Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger joins former chief of 

the Sagkeeng Ojibway First Nation and Residential School 

survivor Theodore Fontaine to talk about how they 

came to write and publish their memoirs. They will speak 

about the use of storytelling as a way of coping with their 

experiences, and the transformative power of sharing 

one’s tragedy. 

Nathan Leipciger was born in 1928, in Chorzow, Poland. He survived 

the Sosnowiec Ghetto and the camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Fünfteichen, 

Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, Leonberg, Mühldorf am Inn and Waldlager. 

Nate and his father were liberated in May 1945 and came to Canada in 

1948. Nate’s memoir, The Weight of Freedom, was recently published 

by the Azrieli Foundation. This summer, Nate accompanied PM Justin 

Trudeau during his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau; in the fall, Nate visited 

Kenora, Ontario, to meet with Elders and Chiefs and to speak to First 

Nations high school students. 

Theodore Fontaine is a member and former chief of the Sagkeeng 

Ojibway First Nation in Manitoba. He attended the Fort Alexander and 

Assiniboia Indian Residential Schools from 1948 to 1960. He has worked 

for various First Nations government sectors and was an advisor and 

executive director of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Theodore wrote 

the bestselling memoir Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential 

Schools, and regularly speaks to numerous audiences on Indian 

residential schools. He continues to support other survivors and seek 

reconciliation directly with those who were perpetrators of his abuse. 

Books will be available for purchase and author signing. Auditorium is 

fully accessible and ASL interpreters will be present during the program. 

Generously sponsored and presented by The Azrieli Foundation. 

Co-presented by Facing History and Ourselves, Ve’ahavta, and Equity 

Studies Program, New College—University of Toronto. 

Thursday, 3 November | 7:00 PM 

University of Toronto 

New College | William Doo Auditorium 

40 Willcocks Street | Toronto 

416–964–7698 

Images courtesy of the personal collections of Theodore Fontaine and of Nate Leipciger 

via the Azrieli Foundation. Reproduced with permission. 



Image courtesy of Jennifer Teege. 

The Swiss Banks Holocaust 

Litigation and Settlement: What 

Can we Learn from the Proposals 

to Allocate Residual Funds? 

Over the past two decades, we have seen the resurgence 

of criminal trials for war crimes, genocide, and crimes 

against humanity. Yet in addition to this revival of the 

legal legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, civil restitution suits 

also emerged in the 1990s as a legal and political tool for 

redress after atrocities. The most prominent of these has 

been a class action litigation brought in American courts 

against Swiss Banks found to have retained and laundered 

looted Holocaust-era assets. The eventual financial settlement 

was $1.25 billion, and the distribution was complex. 

This presentation from HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence 

Dr. Ron Levi analyzes the varying allocation proposals that 

were submitted during this litigation, and the decision 

reached over the allocation of any residual funds to the 

neediest of Holocaust survivors. 

Scholar-in-Residence 

Professor Ron Levi holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict 

Studies at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Deputy Director 

of the Munk School of Global Affairs, and is an Associate Professor of 

Global Affairs and Sociology. He is a sociologist and legal scholar, whose 

research focuses on justice system responses to violence, crime, and 

human rights violations. Among his current projects, Prof. Levi is researching 

the strategies of international criminal courts from the Nuremberg 

Trial to the present, the practices of UN human rights professionals, 

the Swiss Banks Holocaust-era litigation, and new strategies in policing 

and counter-terrorism. Prof. Levi’s next research project will address 

community safety, insecurity, and radicalization in Europe. An awardwinning 

teacher, Prof. Levi is a past Fellow of the Canadian Institute 

for Advanced Research, has launched a Global Justice Lab in the Munk 

School of Global Affairs, and in 2014 was awarded the University of 

Toronto’s Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize. In 2016, 

he was appointed as a Permanent Visiting Professor in the University 

of Copenhagen’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts. 

Please RSVP to Nicole Nassri at nnassri@stikeman.com. Space is 

extremely limited for this event. Upon registering, you will receive a 

confirmation e-mail with the location and final details of the event. 

If you have not registered for the event ahead of time, nor received an 

e-mail confirmation, you will unfortunately not be granted access to 

the event. 

HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence is generously sponsored by the 

Cohen Family Charitable Trust. Lunch ‘n Learn hosted by Stikeman 

Elliott LLP. 

Friday, 4 November | 12:00 noon 

ADDRESS PROVIDED UPON CONFIRMATION OF REGISTRATION 

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black 

Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past 

At age 38, Jennifer Teege picked up a book at a library in 

Hamburg and discovered that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, 

the brutal Nazi commandant of the Plaszow concentration 

camp, portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in the film Schindler’s List. 

Although she was placed in an orphanage and then adopted at a 

young age, Teege had some contact with her biological mother 

and grandmother. Yet neither revealed their family legacy, one 

indelibly marked by Goeth—the Nazi “butcher of Plaszow”— 

and his crimes as a concentration camp commandant. As she 

began to learn the scope of her grandfather’s crimes and address 

her subsequent depression, Teege delved into researching her 

family’s past. 

In My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Teege explores the revelatory 

journey of discovering her grandfather’s crimes, seeking 

greater understanding of her biological family and searching for 

a sense of closure for the victims. After her emotional pilgrimage, 

Teege says, “I’m no longer a prisoner of the past. There is no Nazi 

gene: We can decide for ourselves who and what we want to be.” 

Jennifer Teege worked in advertising for fifteen years and lives in Germany 

with her husband and two sons. She holds a degree from Tel Aviv University 

in Middle Eastern and African studies. Her first book, a New York Times bestseller, 

has garnered critical acclaim. 

Book sale and signing to follow program. Limited parking. 

Generously co-sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal 

Republic of Germany. 

Saturday, 5 November | 8:00 PM 

Kehillat Shaarei Torah | 2640 Bayview Avenue 

Toronto | 416–229–2600 



Photo by Isaac Applebaum. 

Suitcase belonging to Isaac Applebaum’s father used during family’s 

immigration to Canada in 1948. Image taken from “At My Mother’s Table,” 

Koffler Gallery installation, 2003. 

Dialogue for Descendants: “Second Generation” 

(2G) Symposium for Children of Holocaust Survivors 

This first annual symposium exclusively for children of Holocaust survivors (and/or 

their partners) is a forum for education, discussion and engagement. Featuring two 

keynote speakers and four workshops, participants will consider different perspectives 

on their role in perpetuating the future of Holocaust memory. 

The symposium opens with remarks from Dr. Paula J. Draper, an historian and educator who has published 

widely on the topic of memory, history and the Canadian perspective on the Holocaust. She was the 

historical consultant during the establishment of the Toronto Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre 

(now Neuberger HEC), and was lead interviewer for the Shoah Foundation (now USC Shoah Foundation) in 

Canada. Dr. Draper is presently researching the postwar experiences of Canadian Holocaust survivors. 

Following the workshops, the symposium features a keynote address from Dr. Paula David, who lectures 

in Gerontology at the Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Both her research 

and her frontline work focus on issues related to ageing Holocaust survivors and the impact of early life 

trauma on ageing. She coordinated the Holocaust Resource Project at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care 

for more than 20 years and has worked extensively with Holocaust survivors, leading group workshops, 

individual counselling and program development. She has developed teaching modules for professional 

staff working with survivors of genocide. 

The “2G” symposium is generously sponsored by lead donors, Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors 

and Descendants (CJHSD), and Marilyn & Stephen Sinclair, in loving memory of their father Ernest (Ernie) 

Weiss, a Holocaust survivor speaker. For a complete list of all symposium supporters, see page 3. 

Sunday, 6 November | 9:30 AM–3:30 PM 

Terraces of Baycrest Retirement Residence | 55 Ameer Avenue 

416–635–2883 × 5153 | neuberger@ujafed.org | ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED 

Workshops 

How Do I Want You to Remember 

the Holocaust? With Holocaust survivor 

speakers Judy Cohen (Hungary), Bill Glied 

(Yugoslavia), and Faigie Libman (Lithuania); 

moderated by Eli Rubenstein. 

How to Research Your Parents’ History? 

International Tracing Service with 

Dr. Diane Afoumado, USHMM. 

The Holocaust as an Inspiration for Art 

with authors Kathy Kacer and Edna Noy 

and filmmaker Isaac Applebaum; moderated 

by Bianca Stern (Baycrest). 

Holocaust Organizations in Toronto: 

Mission and Purpose—panel discussion 

with representatives from the Neuberger 

Holocaust Education Centre, March of the 

Living, Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors 

and Descendants’ Association, Jewish 

Family & Child. 

Participants may choose two of four 

workshops upon online registration—first 

come, first served. Attendance at this 

symposium is limited to children of Holocaust 

survivors (and/or their partners)— 

no exceptions. The program cost is $36 per 

person which includes a full day of content 

plus light breakfast, lunch and snacks. 

Kashruth observed. Register online at 

www.ujaevents.com/registration/ 

descendants. 



Image courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation. 

The Neuberger Centre is proud to partner 

with USC Shoah Foundation for a threemonth 

installation of New Dimensions in 

Testimony in our facility. Students and members 

of the public will have the opportunity 

to interact with a test version of the groundbreaking 

technology, experiencing a “virtual 

conversation” with Holocaust survivor 

speaker, Pinchas Gutter. Complete information 

will be available on holocaustcentre.com. 

Legacy Symposium for Young Professionals 

The seventh annual symposium features engaging workshops that invite participants in their 20s and 30s to explore the future 

of Holocaust memory from different perspectives. Sessions will address this theme through survivor engagement, interactive technologies, 

and thought-provoking discussions. Special guests include HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence Dr. Michael Gray, Holocaust 

survivors and Azrieli Foundation authors Nate Leipciger, Claire Baum and Leslie Meisels, HEW closing night speaker Hannah 

Lessing, PhD candidate Amir Lavie, and more. The program concludes with a keynote presentation from Holocaust survivor Pinchas 

Gutter and Stephen Smith, executive director of USC Shoah Foundation, who will discuss New Dimensions in Testimony—an 

initiative that enables people to have “virtual conversations” with Holocaust survivors long into the future. 

Envisioned by concept developer Conscience Display, New Dimensions in Testimony was created with the technical expertise from USC’s Institute for Creative 

Technologies. Using state-of-the-art technology, New Dimensions in Testimony provides the opportunity to ask questions that instantly answered by the recorded 

image of the survivor. This allows users to walk down their own path of curiosity to learn about this important part of history. To create the lifelike exchange, 

advanced language-recognition software understands the questions being asked and instantly plays back one of the thousands of questions answered by the 

survivor. The presentation will be moderated by Ramona Pringle, Director, Transmedia Zone, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson 

University, and CBC technology columnist. 

Pinchas Gutter and his twin sister were born in Lodz, Poland, in 1933, to a Hasidic family. In 1939, his family was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. In April 1943, 

they were deported to the Majdanek death camp, where Pinchas’ family was murdered on arrival. He was sent to a work camp, then to Buchenwald, and then on 

a death march from Germany to Theresienstadt. He was liberated by the Soviet Army in May 1945 and was taken to Britain with other children for rehabilitation. 

He immigrated to Canada in 1985 from South Africa. 

A symposium for people in their 20s and 30s. The program is free of charge. Light lunch will be served; Kashruth observed. Copies of the memoirs published by 

the Azrieli Foundation authors will be provided. Register online at www.holocaustcentre.com/YPs. 

Generously co-sponsored by Pinchas & Dorothy Gutter, in memory of his twin sister, Sabina; by Martin & Eleanor Maxwell, in memory of his sisters, Josephine 

and Erna Meisels who died in the Holocaust; by Jeff & Annalee Wagman, Echelon Wealth Partners; and by Jewish War Veterans of Canada. Co-presented by the 

Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto. 

Sunday, 6 November | 11:00 am 

Ryerson University | Oakham House | 55 Gould Street | Toronto | 416–631–5689 



Szymon and his wife in Nice, France, 1948 

Image courtesy of André Laks family archive. 

Music of Another World: Szymon Laks, 1901–1983 

In honour of Holocaust Education Week 2016, the ARC Ensemble (Artists of The 

Royal Conservatory) will present a concert with a focus on Laks’ delightful music and 

feature a pre-concert talk about the life and music of this gifted composer from HEW 

2016 Artist-in-Residence Simon Wynberg, ARC Ensemble Artistic Director. 

The Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble has become one of Canada’s pre-eminent cultural ambassadors. 

Its members are either senior faculty members of the Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School or alumni 

with distinguished solo careers. The ARC Ensemble has performed in major venues throughout North America 

and Europe including appearances at the Budapest Spring Festival, New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, 

the Stratford Festival, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, and notably, a commemorative 

concert in Dachau in 2015 which marked the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. Its recordings and 

performances are broadcast around the world. The ARC Ensemble has earned an international reputation 

for its exploration and recovery of a vast amount of music that was lost or marginalized due to political 

suppression. Its “Music in Exile” series, dedicated to composers who were forced to flee Hitler’s Europe, has 

been mounted to great acclaim in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Rome, Budapest, Toronto, New York and London, and 

a number of 20th century masterworks have rejoined the canon as a result of the ensemble’s initiatives. Its 

sixth recording, to be released on Chandos in Spring 2017, is devoted to the music of the Polish/French 

composer Szymon Laks (1901–1983), who survived Auschwitz and Dachau and settled in Paris after the war. 

ARC Ensemble: Marie Bérard and Erika Raum (violins), Steven Dann (viola), Winona Zelenka (cello), 

David Louie and Dianne Werner (pianos). 

CD signing to follow the program. Free admission; pre-registration is required. Reserve tickets by visiting 

musicofanotherworld.eventbrite.ca or by calling 905–771–5526. 

Co-sponsored by the Town of Richmond Hill. 

Sunday, 6 November | 7:30 PM 

Beit Rayim Synagogue and School at The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 

10268 Yonge Street | Richmond Hill | 905–771–5526 

Artist-in-Residence 

Neuberger HEW 2016 Artist-in-Residence 

Simon Wynberg has been the artistic director 

of the ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal 

Conservatory), the organization’s ensemblein-residence, 

since its establishment in 2002. 

He is responsible for its programming, touring, 

recording projects and overall development. 

He founded and directed the Scottish Festival, 

Music in Blair Atholl from 1990 to 2011 and was 

Artistic Director of Ontario’s Music at Speedside 

and the Guelph Spring Festival from 1994 

to 2002. In tandem with his work for the ARC 

Ensemble, he lectures and writes on music 

under National Socialism, and is particularly 

involved in the research, performance and 

restitution of works by composers who were 

exiled and marginalized because of it. As a 

guitarist, his entry in The New Grove Dictionary 

of Music and Musicians describes him as “not 

only a virtuoso performer of distinction but 

one of the guitar’s foremost scholars” and his 

pioneering work in the field of guitar repertoire 

has introduced performers to a large body of 

hitherto unknown music. 



Image courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation. 

Personal Access to the ITS Archive 

Until 2007, the International Tracing Service (ITS), located in 

Bad Arolsen, Germany, was the largest closed Holocaust archive 

in the world. Established by the Allied powers after the war to 

help reunite families and trace missing family members, it holds 

millions of pages of documentation. The USHMM in Washington 

led an effort to open the archive to the public and remains the 

only North American access point for the 150 million documents. 

In a personal consultation with Diane Afoumado, you can access 

the archive to search your family history. 

Dr. Diane Afoumado is Chief of the Research and Reference Branch at the 

Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust 

Memorial Museum in Washington. She specializes in Holocaust survivors’ 

and victims’ resources. An historian who specializes in Holocaust studies, 

Afoumado has taught history at the University of Paris and collaborated on 

several research projects, including one with renowned historian and attorney 

Serge Klarsfeld on the French internment camps. 

Between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, Dr. Afoumado will offer individual consultations 

for people interested in accessing the ITS database. Appointments are limited; 

pre-registration is required at neuberger@ujafed.org or 416–635–2883 × 5153. 

Monday, 7 November | 10:00 AM–4:00 PM 

Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre 


Lipa Green Centre | 4600 Bathurst Street | Boardroom #3 

Toronto | 416–635–2883 × 5153 

Addressing Austria’s Past: Responsibility, 

Remembrance and Restitution 

Hannah Lessing, Secretary General of the National Fund of 

the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, will 

explore both moral and legal dimensions of restitution. The 

National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National 

Socialism was established in 1995 in order to express Austria’s 

moral responsibility towards all victims of National Socialism. 

The Fund has been able to acknowledge the suffering of approximately 

30,000 survivors with symbolic payments. In 2011, it 

was entrusted with coordinating the redesign of the new Austrian 

exhibition at the Auschwitz memorial and with administering 

the funds for the restoration of the Jewish cemeteries in 

Austria. The General Settlement Fund for Victims of National 

Socialism was established in order to comprehensively resolve 

open questions of compensation for victims. In a complex and 

elaborate procedure, the GSF has thus far disbursed approximately 

212 million US dollars to more than 20,500 people and 

has almost completed its work. All payments disbursed by the 

funds are made in commemoration of the victims. 

Limited capacity; RSVP required to Bryan Jones at rsvp@airdberlis.com or 

416–865–4745. 

Co-sponsored by Aird & Berlis and PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

Monday, 7 November | 12:00 PM 

Aird & Berlis LLP | Please RSVP for Location | 416–865–4745 

The Future Of Holocaust Memory | P22 



The Future of Holocaust Memory 

The personal testimonies of Holocaust survivors have been foundational 

to Holocaust research and memorial culture. However, 

with the passing of time as fewer and fewer survivors remain 

among us, Holocaust scholarship, which relies on the transmission 

of personal and collective narratives of the Holocaust, must 

adapt in new and innovative ways. 

Around the world, wherever Holocaust survivors immigrated, 

they leave behind written, audio, and video testimonies. These 

sources have ensured the transmission of their testimony to their 

children and grandchildren, researchers, students and teachers. 

As our global society transitions to a new era of Holocaust testimony, 

those who are not survivors or their descendants increasingly 

play a critical role in the transmission of the history and 

memory of the Holocaust. The Neuberger’s panel of distinguished 

experts will discuss the potential opportunities and challenges 

facing the future of Holocaust testimony. 

Panelists include Karen Jungblut, who as Director of Collections at USC Shoah 

Foundation, oversees USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony 

initiative, a project that enables people to have “virtual conversations” with 

Holocaust survivors long into the future; and Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, 

one of the primary participants in New Dimensions in Testimony; Alice Herscovitch, 

Executive Director, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, co-originator 

with the Neuberger HEC of the Canadian Collection partnership with USC Shoah 

Foundation Visual History Archive, recently launched in Toronto and Montreal; 

Jody Spiegel, Director of the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs 

Program, working to make the collections of survivor stories accessible in media 

beyond print; and moderated and chaired by Professor Anna Shternshis, 

Director, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, and Al and Malka Green 

Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto. 

Generously co-sponsored by Joyce & Aaron Rifkind. 


Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish 

Studies | University of Toronto 

Jackman Hall | 170 St. George Street | Room 100 

Toronto | 416–978–1624 

Son of Saul 

This film follows Saul Auslander, a Jewish Hungarian 

prisoner working as a Sonderkommando at one of the 

Auschwitz crematoria who, over the span of two days 

in 1944, attempts to bury the corpse of a boy he takes 

for his son. In one final desperate act of morality, Saul 

pursues the impossible task of giving the boy a ritual 

burial, salvaging the body and finding a rabbi to recite 

the Mourner’s Kaddish (2015, Hungarian with English 

subtitles, 107 minutes). 

Winner of the Palm D’Or at Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Film 

at the 2015 Oscars, Son of Saul is a haunting addition to the pantheon 

of Holocaust films. Its stark realism and tight focus on Saul’s face as 

he goes about his tasks allows the audience glimpses of the horrors 

implied through sound and background. The result is one of the most 

realistic depictions of the Holocaust on film, leaving a lasting impression 

on the viewer. Featuring special guest, László Rajk, Production 

Designer, of Son of Saul. 

Pre-registration required. Call 416–631–5689 or online at 

holocausteducationweek.com. Limit 4 tickets per family. 

Generously co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Hungary in 

Toronto and by the Brown and Lindenberg families. 


Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk 

5095 Yonge Street | 3RD floor 

Toronto | 416–847–0218 

Son of Saul image courtesy of Hungarian National Film Fund. 



or call 416–631–5689. 



Educator-in-Residence 

Neuberger HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence 

Dr. Michael Gray is Head of Government 

and Politics and teacher of History at Harrow 

School in London, one of the UK’s oldest and 

most famous schools. Michael studied history 

at King’s College London and then completed 

his PhD in Holocaust education at the 

UCL Institute of Education. To date he has 

published two books, Contemporary Debates 

in Holocaust Education and Teaching the 

Holocaust: Practical Approaches for Ages 11–18, 

as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal 

articles on subjects such as students’ perceptions 

of Jewish identity, the impact of The Boy 

in the Striped Pyjamas on teaching the Holocaust, 

and students’ preconceptions of the 

Holocaust. He has presented internationally 

and works with the UK’s Holocaust Educational 

Trust in training teachers and educators around 

the country. Michael was recently involved in 

coding data for a national study of students’ 

knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust 

conducted by the UCL Centre for Holocaust 

Education. He has also developed a number 

of curriculum resources on the Rwandan 

genocide for Survivors Fund and is a member 

of the British Association for Holocaust Studies 

and the International Network of Genocide 

Scholars. 

Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education through Survivor Testimony: 

36th Annual Student Symposium on the Holocaust 

In honour of this year’s HEW theme, the Future of Memory, the Neuberger’s signature High School Student Symposium on the 

Holocaust will focus on exploring the future of Holocaust survivor testimony. A keynote address from HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence 

Dr. Michael Gray will set the stage for the day-long multisession program. Gray will address learning about the Holocaust in 

contemporary settings as we face a pivotal point in Holocaust education—a future without survivors. He will go beyond the survivor 

model to investigate other forms of memory. 

Following the opening keynote, students will have opportunities to engage with different forms of testimony, rotating through three smaller interactive sessions. 

These include the USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT) project, an initiative that enables students to have “virtual conversations” with 

Holocaust survivors long into the future, recordings from the newly-launched Canadian collection of survivor testimony, and a documentary film. Special guests 

include USC Shoah Foundation’s Karen Jungblut and Kia Hays. 

The program will conclude with a closing keynote from Holocaust survivor speaker Pinchas Gutter, discussing his work with the NDT project, reflecting on 

the process, and sharing his perspective on the different kinds of testimony. The symposium will offer students an interactive, inquiry-based forum to explore 

learning about the Holocaust for the future. For Pinchas Gutter’s bio, see page 19. 

This program is generously supported by Fred and May Karp and Family. 

Program open to high school students and their instructors. Free of charge. Registration required at holocaustcentre.com/Educators-Students/ 

Student-Symposium. For more information, contact Michelle: mfishman@ujafed.org. Unfortunately, this program is not open to members of the public. 

Tuesday, 8 November | Registration 9:00 AM | Program 9:30 AM 

TIFF Bell Lightbox | 350 King Street West | Toronto | 416–631–5689 



History and Imagination: The Place of 

Literature in Holocaust Remembrance 

The role of literature in commemorating the Holocaust has been 

the subject of controversy. Some historians, philosophers and 

literary critics maintain that literature —and especially fiction 

—has no place in the remembrance of a historical event. They 

worry that when it comes to the Shoah, engaging the literary 

imagination trivializes the historical horrors and opens a door for 

Holocaust deniers. But others see a particular value in literature 

about the Shoah, which offers insights not available through 

historical accounts. A panel of writers and literary critics, moderated 

by Professor Sara R. Horowitz, will debate the place and 

value of literary approaches to Holocaust memory. 

For updated information, visit holocausteducationweek.com. 

Tuesday, 8 November | 4:00 PM 

Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies 

York University | Kaneff Tower | Room 519 

4700 Keele Street | Toronto | 416–736–5823 

Memory After Belsen image courtesy of Henri Lustiger Thaler. 

Memory After Belsen 

This feature-length documentary explores the lives and memories 

of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Holocaust 

survivors, investigating the resonance of Holocaust memory 

through the generations. Bergen-Belsen serves as a model for 

posing broader questions about the transmission of memory of 

the Holocaust. How has the survivor generation impacted the 

second generation and how will next generations be responsible 

for preserving this history? Memory After Belsen explores multiple 

forms of Holocaust memory through the prism of wide-ranging 

and compelling oral histories. In a period with the sharpest decline 

of the survivor generation, Memory After Belsen focuses on the 

future of the memory of the Holocaust (2014, English, 76 minutes). 

Special guests are executive producers Edward Sonshine and Henri Lustiger 

Thaler. The author and editor of seven books and many scholarly articles, 

Dr. Lustiger Thaler is an internationally recognized exhibition curator on the 

history of the Holocaust and an Associate Researcher at CADIS, of the Ecole 

des hautes etudes en science sociales in Paris, France, and Professor of 

Cultural & Historical Sociology at Ramapo College in the USA. A lawyer by 

training, Mr. Sonshine is CEO of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, a Director 

of the Royal Bank of Canada and Cineplex Galaxy Entertainment. Born in 

Bergen-Belsen, Mr. Sonshine immigrated to Canada at the age of two where he 

continues to live with his family. A dessert reception will follow the screening. 

Generously co-sponsored by Fran & Ed Sonshine in memory of their parents, 

Ben & Helen Sonshine and Irving & Frida Lebovici. 


Jacob Family Theatre | Posluns Auditorium 

Baycrest | 3560 Bathurst Street | Toronto 

Community Safety, Insecurity, and 

Radicalization: Holocaust Memory and 

Education in the 21st Century 

This panel discussion focuses on issues of antisemitism and 

community safety in Europe. Concern over Jewish community 

safety continues to be prominent, including apprehension over 

Holocaust denial and trivialization. This session focuses on 

responses that seek to increase community security and address 

radicalization: in France, a prefect was appointed to protect religious 

and cultural sites; the Director of the Mémorial de la Shoah 

has identified Holocaust and genocide education as a means to 

combat antisemitism; and a European Commission Colloquium 

has included Holocaust education and criminalizing Holocaust 

denial as hate speech among its proposals to address hate crime 

and promote inclusivity. Building on these responses, this discussion 

will include invited panelists, chaired by HEW Scholar-in- 

Residence Prof. Ron Levi, who will explore the meaning of 

community safety in the current context, the role of Holocaust 

memory and education in addressing radicalization, and how 

the European Jewish experience opens thinking into the role of 

memory in promoting community safety. 

Registration required at munkschool.utoronto.ca/events. 

Co-presented by the Consulate General of France. Generously co-sponsored 

by Naomi Rifkind Mansell & David Mansell in honour of Joyce Rifkind. The HEW 

Scholar-in-Residence is sponsored by the Cohen Family Charitable Trust. 


Munk School for Global Affairs 

University of Toronto 

1 Devonshire Place | Toronto | 416–946–8900 



Image courtesy Michael Rajzman for the Neuberger. 

Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting 

This Lunch and Learn program features Neuberger HEW Educator-in-Residence Dr. Michael Gray. Join us 

as he explores future practice of Holocaust education in contemporary settings. How will the Holocaust be 

remembered in the future? How will next generations continue to learn about the Holocaust in a reality 

without live survivor testimony? Dr. Gray will share some of his research in this area and illuminate possible 

opportunities and challenges for the future. 

Keynote will be followed by an interactive Q & A. Light lunch provided; Kashruth observed. This program is designed for Jewish 

community professionals and educators; open to the general public (adults). Attendance by advance registration only. Please 

call 416–635–2883 × 5153 or email neuberger@ujafed.org. Limited space available. 

Generously co-sponsored by the Holbrook family in loving memory of their infant son, Jeremy. 


Prosserman JCC | Room 123 | 4588 Bathurst Street | Toronto 

416–635–2883 × 5153 


portfolio 

The Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre inspired 

the development of the photographic series based on the HEW theme, 

the Future of Memory. Drawn from the collection of UJA Federation’s 

Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, the images 

present fragments of personal and, at times, universal histories. These 

photographs have the potential to imply new meanings for each viewer, 

offering a range of perspectives on history and photography. 

Through hand-manipulated interventions I alter and subsequently 

photograph the images to create new photos. I carefully perforate each 

photo and shine light though the small openings in order to bring new 

light into the photograph. Each image is changed through this action; 

new interpretations are possible. My hope is to invite further contemplation 

and extend the possibilities inherent in a singular photograph. 

Amy Friend, 2016

© Amy Friend. Source Image: Unknown woman, (Vilna?), 192–? Ontario Jewish Archives, accession 1988-10-11. 

portfolio

© Amy Friend. Source Image: Crowds at Berlin Olympics, 1936. Ontario Jewish Archives, accession 2009-5-3.

© Amy Friend. Source image: Cantor Akiva Pitkowsky with his two daughters (Poland-Lithuania), 1901. Ontario Jewish Archives, item 1710. 

© Amy Friend. Source Image: Unknown women and girls, (Vilna?), 192–? Ontario Jewish Archives, accession 1988-10-11.

© Amy Friend. Source image: Passover seder for emigrants at Riga, Latvia, 1923. Ontario Jewish Archives, item 1887.

LIBRARY AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS 

Central to the educational mandate of Neuberger HEW is to create opportunities to learn from 

first-person testimony of Holocaust survivors for as long as possible. While the future of testimony 

may rest with recorded testimony, oral and written memoirs, in addition to new technological 

methods, Neuberger HEW is proud to offer first-person testimony by Holocaust survivor speakers 

at venues across the city with the support of our public libraries. 

These programs are organized individually by libraries committed to ensuring the future of Holocaust 

remembrance with support from the Neuberger. The libraries draw audiences from local communities 

and area schools to ensure students and community members from across the GTA have access to 

Holocaust education. Members of the public are welcome to attend these library programs. 


a Holocaust Survivor 

Today’s students will be among the last to 

experience in-person accounts of those who 

survived the Holocaust. Neuberger HEW is 

proud to continue to offer first-person testimony 

by Holocaust survivor speakers at schools 

and libraries across the GTA for HEW 2016. 

The following programs feature a Holocaust 

survivor speaker sharing testimony in the 

“In Conversation” format, developed with 

support from the Conference on Material 

Claims Against Germany, Inc. 

The Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre 

gratefully acknowledges members of the 

Survivor Speakers’ Bureau for their inspired 

contributions to Holocaust education. For a 

complete listing of programs with Holocaust 

survivor testimony and biographies for 

members of the Neuberger Survivor Speakers’ 

Bureau, visit holocausteducationweek.com. 

Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman 

Photography, 2010 & 2015. 

Programs featuring Holocaust survivor 

authors published by the Azrieli Foundation 

will include free copies of their memoirs. The 

Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program was 

established by the Azrieli Foundation in 2005 

to collect, preserve and share the memoirs 

and diaries written by survivors of the twentieth-century 

Nazi genocide of the Jews of 

Europe who later made their way to Canada. 

Hungarian Holocaust survivor Eva Meisels will 

speak about her experience during the Holocaust. 

Eva Meisels was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. 

After her father was taken to a forced labour camp 

in 1942, Eva and her mother were in the Budapest 

Ghetto and eventually, a safe house. They obtained 

false papers from Raoul Wallenberg and were liberated 

by the Soviet Army. After the war, Eva went 

back to school and immigrated to Canada in 1956. 

Copies of Suddenly the Shadow Fell are published 

by and generously provided by the Azrieli Foundation 

and will be available for author signing following 

the program. 

Co-presented by Markham Public Library. 

Wednesday, 2 November | 10:30 AM 

Thornhill Community Centre Library 

7755 Bayview Avenue, Markham 

905–513–7977 

Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane will 

speak about his experience during the Holocaust. 

Mark Lane was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. In 

1944 he was deported to Auschwitz where his family 

was murdered. In 1945 he was taken on a death 

march to Mauthausen in Austria. He was liberated in 

1945 from Gunskirchen and immigrated to Canada 

in 1951. 


Dufferin Clark Library 

1441 Clark Avenue West | Vaughan 

905–653–7323 

Polish Holocaust survivor Manny Langer will speak 

about his experience during the Holocaust. Manny 

Langer was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1929. Manny 

was forced to live in the Lodz Ghetto before being 

transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen- 

Belsen concentration camps. After liberation, he 

travelled back to Poland where he found two surviving 

sisters. In 1946, he immigrated to the United 

States, and in 1951, Manny and his sisters immigrated 

to Canada. 

Generously co-sponsored by Mary Seldon and 

family in memory of all our family killed in the 

Holocaust. 


Richview Library 

1806 Islington Avenue | Toronto 

416–394–5120 

Romanian Holocaust survivor Felicia Carmelly will 

tell her story of survival. Felicia Carmelly was born 

in Romania in 1931. In October 1941, Felicia and her 

family were deported to the camps in Transnistria 

where 36 members of her extended family were 

murdered. Felicia was liberated by the Soviet Army 

in 1944, and returned to her home in 1945. After 

living under Communist rule in post-war Romania, 

Felicia immigrated to Canada in 1962. Copies of her 

award-winning book, Shattered! 50 Years of Silence, 

History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania 

and Transnistria, will be available for purchase and 

author signing following the program. Copies of her 

memoir, Across the Rivers of Memory, are published 

by and generously provided by the Azrieli Foundation. 

Wednesday, 2 November | 1:30 PM & 3:00 PM 

Barbara Frum Library 

20 Covington Road | Toronto 

416–395–5440 



Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman Photography, 2010 & 2015. 

AMEK ADLER b. 

Poland 1928. 

Survived ghettos, 

concentration 

and death camps. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1954. 

Programs: see 

pages 41, 47. 

CLAIRE BAUM 

b. Holland 1936. 

Survived in hiding. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1951. 

Programs: see 

page 19. 

HEDY BOHM 

b. Romania 1928. 

Survived slave labour, 

concentration and 

death camps. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

Programs: see 

pages 36, 48. 

FELICIA CARMELLY 


Survived concentration 

camps in Transnistria. 

Immigrated to Canada 

1962. Programs: see 

pages 32, 35, 41, 48. 

HOWARD CHANDLER 

b. Poland 1928. 

Survived slave labour, 


death camps. 



page 35. 

JUDY WEISSENBERG COHEN 

b. Hungary 1928. Survived 

slave labour, concentration 

and death camps. Immigrated 

to Canada 1948. Programs: 

see pages 18, 41, 51. 

ALEXANDER EISEN 

b. Austria 1929. 

Survived in the 

Budapest Ghetto 

and with false papers. 


1952. Programs: 

see pages 35, 36. 

MAX EISEN 

b. Czechoslovakia 

1929. Survived 

concentration, slave 

labour and death 

camps. Immigrated 

to Canada 1949. 

SALLY EISNER 

b. Poland 1922. Survived 

a ghetto, concentration 


Immigrated to Canada 1949. 



ANITA EKSTEIN 


Survived a ghetto, 

in hiding and 

with false papers. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

ESTHER FAIRBLOOM 

b. Poland, year unknown. 

Survived a ghetto and 

in hiding. Immigrated to 

Canada 1951. Programs: 


SHARY MARMOR FINE 


Survived slave labour 



1948. 


EDWARD FISCH 

b. Hungary 1933. 

Survived a ghetto 

and in hiding. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

Programs: see 

pages 35, 47. 

GEORGE FOX 

b. Ukraine 1917. 

Survived ghettos 


Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

MIRIAM FRANKEL 

b. Czechoslovakia 1927. 

Survived a ghetto and 

death camp. Immigrated 


Programs: see page 41. 

GERDA FRIEBERG 


a ghetto and concentration 

camp. Immigrated to 


see page 41. 

EDITH GELBARD 


Survived a holding 

camp, in hiding 

and with a false 

identity. Immigrated 


BILL GLIED 

b. Serbia 1930. 

Survived 

concentration, 

slave labour and 

death camps. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1947. 

Programs: see 

pages 18, 41, 48. 



Hungarian Holocaust survivor Andy Réti will speak 

about his personal experiences in the Holocaust. 

Andy Réti was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1942. 

He survived in the Budapest Ghetto together with 

his mother and paternal grandparents. His father 

was murdered in a forced labour camp. Andy was 

liberated in January 1945. In October 1956, he was 

able to immigrate to Canada. Copies of Stronger 

Together are published by and generously provided 

by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available for 

author signing following the program. 


Cedarbrae Public Library 545 Markham Road 

Scarborough | 416–396–8850 

Hidden Gold: 

A Family’s Survival Story 

Author Ella Burakowski will reveal the riveting 

story behind her discovery of how her family 

courageously survived a harrowing 26 months 

during the Second World War and her journey to 

writing Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust. 

Books will be available for purchase and author 

signing following the program. 


Downsview Library 

2793 Keele Street | Toronto 

416–395–0700 

Polish Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler will 


Howard Chandler was born in Wierzbnik, Poland, 

in 1928. He was a prisoner in Starachowice Labour 

Camp between 1942 and 1944, then in Auschwitz- 

Birkenau, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt between 

1944 and 1945. He immigrated to Canada in 1947 

as a war orphan with other children from England. 

Generously co-sponsored by Stephen Greenberg in 

honour of Howard Chandler. 


Wychwood Public Library 

1431 Bathurst Street | Toronto 

416–393–7683 

Hungarian Holocaust survivor Edward Fisch 

will speak about his personal experiences in the 

Holocaust. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1933, 

his father was conscripted in 1942 into the Slave 

Labour Battalion in Hungary; his mother was 

deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Edward 

and his brother survived in Swiss protected 

houses. Edward immigrated to Canada in 1948. 


Don Mills Library 

888 Lawrence Avenue East 

Toronto | 416–395–5710 

The Last Train 

Rona Arato’s award-winning children’s book, The 

Last Train, is the story of a Hungarian Jewish family 

during the Holocaust and the miraculous event that 

saved their lives. Told through the eyes of six- and 

11-year-old brothers, Paul and Oscar, it celebrates 

their courage and the humanity of the American 

soldiers who liberated them. Books will be available 

for purchase and author signing following the program. 


Mt. Pleasant Library | 599 Mt. Pleasant Road 

Toronto | 416–393–7737 

Romanian Holocaust survivor Joe (Joseph) Leinburd 

will speak about his experience during the Holocaust. 

Joe Leinburd was born in Suceava, Romania, in 1922. 

In 1941, the Romanian Fascist Regime, collaborating 

with Nazi Germany, deported the entire Jewish population 

of Northern Bucovina and Bessarabia to 

Transnistria, an area in southwestern Ukraine. Miraculously, 

his entire family survived a death march from 

Moghilev to Murafa and was liberated in 1944. After 

spending two-and-a-half years in Displaced Persons 

camps, Joe and his wife immigrated to Canada in 1949. 

Thursday, 3 November | 10:30 AM 

Danforth/Coxwell Library 

1675 Danforth Avenue | Toronto 

416–393–7784 

Dutch Holocaust survivor Leonard Vis will speak 

about his experience during the Holocaust. Leonard 

Vis was born in Amsterdam in 1930. After Nazi 

Germany occupied the Netherlands, his family went 

into hiding. They all survived and were liberated 

in 1945. After the war, Leonard served two years in 

the Dutch Army before moving to New York. Leonard 

immigrated to Canada in 1967. 


Palmerston Public Library 

560 Palmerston Avenue | Toronto 

416–393–7680 

Dutch Holocaust survivor Gershon Willinger will 


Gershon Willinger was born in Amsterdam in 1942 

to German-Jewish parents who were later murdered. 

He was placed in hiding as a young orphan. In 1944, 

as a two-year-old child, he was deported and later 

was liberated in 1945. He became a social worker 

and immigrated to Canada in 1977. 


Gerrard/Ashdale Library 

1432 Gerrard Street East | Toronto 

416–393–7717 

Romanian Holocaust survivor Felicia Carmelly 

will tell her story of survival. Felicia Carmelly was 

born in Romania in 1931. For her bio, see page 32. 

Copies of her memoir, Across the Rivers of Memory, 

are published by and generously provided by the 

Azrieli Foundation. Copies of her book, Shattered! 

50 Years of Silence, History and Voices of the Tragedy 

in Romania and Transnistria, will be available for 

purchase and author signing following the program. 


Spadina Road Public Library 

10 Spadina Road | Toronto 

416–393–7666 

In the Presence of 

my Neighbours 

Filmmaker George Gedeon will screen and discuss 

his film, In the Presence of My Neighbours (2012, 

English). The film and talk will explore the plight 

of Greek Jews in the Second World War. 

Generously co-sponsored by Gail & Stanley Debow 

in memory of Max & Maria Reisberg. 


Victoria Village Public Library 

184 Sloane Avenue | North York 

416–395–5951 

Dutch Holocaust survivor Gershon Willinger will 


For his bio, see left. 

Friday, 4 November | 11:00 AM 

College/Shaw Public Library 

766 College Street | Toronto 

416–393–7668 

Austrian Holocaust survivor Alexander Eisen will 


Alexander Eisen born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929. 

After the Anschluss in 1938, the Eisen family fled 

to Hungary. In 1939, Alex’s father was arrested 

and fled to Palestine, leaving his family. The family 

endured the hardships of the Budapest Ghetto, 

but later managed to escape and live in hiding 

until liberation in 1945. He immigrated to Canada 

in 1952. 

Friday, 4 November | 1:30 PM 

Davenport Library 

1246 Shaw Street | Toronto 

416–393–7732 



Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane 


For his bio, see page 32. 

Friday, 4 November | 11:00 AM 

Maple Library | 10190 Keele Street 

905–653–7323 

Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane will 




Bathurst Clark Resource Library 

900 Clark Avenue West | Thornhill 

905–653–7323 

Austrian Holocaust survivor Alexander Eisen will 



Generously co-sponsored by an anonymous donor 

in memory of Danny Saltzman. 


Deer Park Library 

40 St Clair Avenue East | Toronto 

416–393–7658 

Children of the Holocaust 

Join us for a special screening of Children of the 

Holocaust (2014, English), animated short documentary 

films created by BBC Learning and Fettle 

Animation. A Q&A session following the screening 

will be moderated by Lorenz Glettler, Austrian 

Holocaust Memorial Intern (Gedenkdiener, Austrian 

Service Abroad) at the Neuberger. 

Generously co-sponsored by Yigal Rifkind in honour 

of his mother, Joyce Rifkind. 

Monday, 7 November | 10:00 AM 

Beaches Library 

2161 Queen Street East | Toronto 

416–393–7703 

Romanian Holocaust survivor Joe (Joseph) Leinburd 




Bloor/Gladstone Library 

1101 Bloor Street West | Toronto 

416–393–7674 

The Past in the Future: 

Re-Envisioning Holocaust 

Literature 

Dr. Frank Bialystok, Prof. Laura Wiseman, and 

Rona Arato will speak about various genres of 

Holocaust literature and the implications for the 

future: creative non-fiction, memoirs and diaries, 

and historical fiction. 

Co-presented by the Ekstein Holocaust Resource 

Library at the Neuberger and the Association 

of Jewish Libraries. Generously co-sponsored by 

Helen Stollar in memory of all the children killed 

in the Holocaust. 


Association of Jewish Libraries at the 

Ekstein Holocaust Resource Library 

Lipa Green Centre | 4th floor 


416–635–2996 

Paul-Henri Rips: 

Matricule E/96 

Paul-Henri Rips, survivant de l’Holocauste et auteur 

de Matricule E/96, témoigne de l’expérience juive 

en Belgique pendant la guerre. Paul-Henri Rips, 

a Holocaust survivor and author of E/96, discusses 

his experience in Belgium during the Holocaust. 

This program is in French. Paul-Henri will read from 

his memoir, Matricule E/96, published by the Azrieli 

Foundation. Copies of Matricule E/96 are generously 

provided by the Azrieli Foundation. 

Tuesday, 8 November | 10:00 AM 

Toronto Reference Library 

789 Yonge Street | Toronto 

416–393–7014 

Hungarian Holocaust survivor Andy Réti will speak 

about his experience during the Holocaust. For his 

bio, see page 35. Copies of Stronger Together are 

published by and generously provided by the Azrieli 

Foundation and will be available for author signing 

following the program. 

Tuesday, 8 November | 10:30 AM 

Brentwood Library 

36 Brentwood Road North | Etobicoke 

416–394–5240 

Romanian Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm will speak 

about her experience during the Holocaust. Hedy 

Bohm was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1928. She was 

an only child, and attended a Jewish girls’ school. 

In 1944, Hedy and her family were sent to a ghetto. 

Within two months she was deported to Auschwitz- 

Birkenau. She was then selected for forced work 

detail at an ammunition factory and shipped to Fallersleben, 

Germany. American forces liberated Hedy 

in April 1945. In 1948, Hedy and her husband immigrated 

to Canada. 

Generously co-sponsored by the Axler, Glazer & 

Lang families, in honor of Feiga Glazer and in 

memory of the late Mozes Glazer, both Holocaust 

survivors. 


Locke Branch 


416–393–7730 

Polish Holocaust survivor Nathan Leipciger will 


For his bio, see page 16. Nate will read from his 

memoir, The Weight of Freedom, published by the 

Azrieli Foundation. Copies are generously provided 

by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available for 


Generously co-sponsored by the Gottesman family 

in memory of Carol and Herman Gottesman. 


North York Central Library 


416–395–5784 

Polish Holocaust survivor Howard Kleinberg will 


Howard Kleinberg was born in the village of 

Wierzbnik, Poland and was raised in a traditional, 

observant home. By October 1942, his life had 

changed forever. Before he had turned 20, Howard 

endured years of forced labour, hunger, hardship, 

cruelty, forced marches, as well as internment in 

several concentration camps. After liberation from 

Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, he learned that his 

parents, most of his relatives and friends had not 

survived. 


Sanderson Library 

327 Bathurst St | Toronto 

416–393–7653 




MEL GOLDBERG 



Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

ELLY GOTZ 

b. Lithuania 1928. 


concentration 

and labour camps. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1964. 

Programs: see 

pages 41, 47. 

PINCHAS GUTTER 



work, concentration 

and death camps 

as well as a death 

march. Immigrated 


Programs: see 

pages 19, 22, 23. 

DENISE HANS 

b. France 1938. Survived 

in hiding in a convent. 


Programs: see pages 39, 41. 

MAGDA HILF 


1921. Survived a ghetto, 

slave labour and death 

camps as well as a death 

march. Immigrated to 


see page 41. 

LOU HOFFER 

b. Romania 1927. Survived 

concentration camps in 

Transnistria. Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

NANCY & HOWARD KLEINBERG 

b. Poland 1925. Survived forced 

labour and concentration camps. 



MARK LANE 


Survived death camps 

and a forced death 

march. Immigrated to 



MANNY LANGER 



forced labour, 

concentration 


Immigrated to 

Canada 1951. 

Programs: see 

page 32. 



JOE (JOSEPH) LEINBURD 

b. Romania 1922. Survived 

camps in Transnistria. 



NATE LEIPCIGER 

b. Poland 1928. Survived a 

ghetto, concentration and 

death camps. Immigrated 

to Canada 1948. Programs: 

see pages 16, 19, 36, 51. 

FAIGIE (SCHMIDT) LIBMAN 

b. Lithuania 1934. Survived 

a ghetto, concentration 

and slave labour camps. 


1948. Programs: see pages 

18, 39, 41, 45. 


ROSE LIPSZYC 


under a false identity. 



pages 41. 

JUDY LYSY 


1928. Survived 


death camps. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1952. 

Programs: see 

pages 39, 41. 

MARTIN MAXWELL 


Survived by escaping 

on a Kindertransport; 

returned on D-Day, 

was wounded and 

captured. Immigrated 

to Canada 


page 41. 

EVA MEISELS 



Budapest Ghetto, 

a safe house and 

with false papers. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1956. 

Programs: see 

pages 32, 41, 43. 

LESLIE MEISELS 


Survived ghettos, 


concentration 


to Canada 

1967. Programs: 

see pages 19, 39, 

41, 45. 

ANDY RÉTI 



Budapest Ghetto. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1956. 

Programs: see 

pages 35, 36, 41. 



Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Faigie Libman will 

speak about her personal experiences during the 

Holocaust. Faigie Libman (née Schmidt) was born 

in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1934. In 1941, she and her 

family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto. When 

the ghetto was liquidated in 1944, her father was 

taken to Dachau, where he was murdered. Faigie 

and her mother were transferred—first to Stutthof, 

then to three slave labour camps—before they 

were liberated by the Soviet Army. They immigrated 

to Canada in 1948. 


Annette Street Library 

145 Annette Street | Toronto 

416–393–7692 

Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Judy Lysy will 

speak about her personal experience during the 

Holocaust. Judy Lysy was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 

in 1928. She lived with her parents, sister 

and grandmother. In March 1944, Judy and her 

family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and 

from there to various slave labour camps. She was 

liberated in May 1945 by the US Army. She immigrated 

to Canada from Venezuela in 1952 with her 

husband and daughter. 


Ansley Grove Library 

350 Ansley Grove Rd | Woodbridge 

905–653–7323 

Hungarian Holocaust survivor Leslie Meisels will 

speak about his personal experiences during the 

Holocaust. Leslie Meisels was born in Nádudvar, 

Hungary in 1927. He lived with his parents, two 

brothers and both sets of grandparents. He survived 

the ghettos in Nádudvar and Debrecen, slave 

labour in Austria and the eventual deportation 

to Bergen-Belsen. He was liberated in April 1945 

by the 9th US Army from a death train. His mother, 

father and both brothers also survived. Leslie 

immigrated to Canada in 1967. Copies of Suddenly 

the Shadow Fell are published by and generously 

provided by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available 

for author signing following the program. 

Thursday, 10 November | 10:00 AM 

Caledon Public Library 

150 Queen Street South | Caledon 

905–857–1400 

The Gradual Instant: 

A Conversation with 

Anne Michaels 

How will the future remembrance of Holocaust 

be created? Acclaimed poet and novelist Anne 

Michaels will be interviewed by Joseph Kertes, 

an award-winning author and the founding Director 

of The Humber School for Writers and The Humber 

School of Comedy. Books will be available for purchase 

and author signing following the program. 

Generously co-sponsored by Bonnie & Larry Moncik 

and Eleanor & George Getzler and families in loving 

memory of their parents, Abraham and Ida Moncik. 


Richmond Hill Central Library 

1 Atkinson Street | Richmond Hill 

905–884–9288 

French Holocaust survivor Denise Hans will speak 

about her personal experiences during the Holocaust. 

Denise Hans was born in Paris, France in 1938. In 

1942, after her father, aunt and uncle were taken 

from her home and murdered, her mother sought 

places to hide her six children and two nieces. 

Denise was hidden twice with farmers and then in 

a convent. She and two sisters stayed there until 

1948, when they were reunited with their mother 

and siblings. Denise immigrated to Canada in 1956. 


Jane/Dundas Library 

620 Jane Street | Toronto 

416–394–1014 

The Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre 

was founded as the Holocaust Education 

and Memorial Centre in 1985. We gratefully 

acknowledge the contributions of the 

dedicated Holocaust survivor educators, 

not pictured, who established this museum 

and worked to fulfill its mission throughout 

the past 30 years. We continue your work 

in your names. 

George Berman, Felix Brand, Irene Csillag, 

Anne Eidlitz, John Freund, Mendel Good, 

Rosalind Goldenberg, Jerry Kapelus, Chava 

Kwinta, Freda Rosenblatt, Cypora Schneider, 

Helen Schwartz, George Scott, Samuel Shene, 

and Sally Wasserman. 

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Bronia Beker, Esther Bem, Marian Domanski, 

Robert Engel, Mike Englishman, Arnold 

Friedman, Herb Goldstein, Ibolya Grossman, 

Elisabeth de Jong, Moishe Kantorowitz, 

Joseph Kichler, Max Kingston, Bronka Krygier, 

Wanda Lerek, Alexander Levin, George Lysy, 

Anita Mayer, Henry Melnick, Fanny Pillersdorf, 

Robert Rosen, Freda Rosenblatt, Judith 

Rubinstein, George Salamon, Magda Schullerer, 

Hanneliese Schusheim-Beigel, Peter Silverman, 

Yael Spier Cohen, Inge Spitz, Ann Szedlecki, 

Dennis Urstein, Ernst Weiss, Robert Weiss, 

Nechemia Wurman, Ada Wynston, Etty Zigler, 

David Zuckerbrot 

IN MEMORIAM 2015–16 

Alex Levin was born in Rokitno (Volyn), 

Poland, in 1932. He survived a massacre 

at the Rokitno Ghetto where his parents 

and younger brother were murdered. He 

managed to escape into the forest with 

his older brother. He was liberated by the 

Soviet Army in 1944 and immigrated to 

Canada in 1975. His memoir, Under the 

Yellow and Red Stars, received the 2010 

Pearson Prize Teen Choice Award. He 

passed away on June 14, 2016. 

Yael Spier Cohen was born in Hesse, 

Germany, in 1929. In 1942, she was deported 

with her parents and brother to the Theresienstadt 

concentration camp. In 1944, 

the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 

along with her parents, who were murdered 

in the gas chambers. Yael was transferred 

to slave labour at an ammunition factory. 

She was liberated on May 5, 1945, from 

Mauthausen, and was the only survivor in 

her family. She moved to Israel in 1945, and 

then later immigrated to Canada in 1952. 

She passed away on February 19, 2016. 

Inge Spitz was born in Potsdam, Germany 

in 1927, where she lived with her parents 

and her sister. After Kristallnacht, her father 

escaped, but her mother was deported 

to Riga in 1941. Inge and her sister left for 

France with a transport of Berlin Jews 

escaping Germany. In 1944, Inge led a 

group of children escaping to Switzerland. 

The Spitz family survived and reunited in 

England. Inge and her husband immigrated 

to Canada in 1948. She passed away on 

November 13, 2015. 



SALLY ROSEN 




death camps. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 

VERA SCHIFF 


Survived a concentration 

camp. Immigrated to 



FAYE SCHULMAN 


Survived a ghetto 

and in the forest 

with partisans. 

Immigrated to 

Canada 1948. 


LEONARD VIS 



Immigrated to 

Canada 1967. 

Programs: see 

pages 35, 41. 

LENKA WEKSBERG 


Survived a ghetto, slave 

labour, a death camp 

and a death march. 



page 41. 

GERSHON WILLINGER 


Survived in hiding 

and concentration 



Programs: see pages 

35, 41, 46. 

HELEN YERMUS 

b. Lithuania 1932. Survived 

a ghetto and concentration 

camp. Immigrated to Canada 

1948. Programs: see pages 

41, 42. 

ROMAN ZEIGLER 


Survived slave labour 



1948. 


closed school programs 

We gratefully acknowledge the participation of 

GTA schools from diverse school boards and backgrounds 

during Holocaust Education Week. We 

thank them for their ongoing commitment to Holocaust 

education for students. Many of these programs 

feature first-person Holocaust survivor 

testimony from a speaker in the “in conversation” 

dialogue format, designed for students. These programs 

are not open to the public. 

Anne Frank Public School 

In Conversation with Lenka Weksberg 

Generously co-sponsored by Doris & 

Rammy Rochman in memory of the victims 

of the Holocaust. 

Arrowsmith School 

& Timothy Eaton Memorial Church 

Remembrance Day Ceremony with Felicia Carmelly 

A.Y. Jackson S.S. 

In Conversation with Bill Glied 

Bakersfield Public School 

In Conversation with Rose Lipszyc 

Bialik Hebrew Day School 

In Conversation with Martin Maxwell 

Bishop Strachan School 


Blessed Cardinal Newman C.H.S. 

In Conversation with Sally Wasserman 

Branksome Hall 

In Conversation with Eva Meisels 

Generously co-sponsored by Roslyn 

& Ralph Halbert. 

Cedarvale Community School 

In Conversation with Magda Hilf 

Centrepoint Learning Centre 


Christ the King Catholic Secondary School 


Crescent School 

In Conversation with Gerda Frieberg 

ÉSC Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel 

Témoignage de Muguette Myers, auteure des 

mémoires Les Lieux du courage 

Parrainé par la Fondation Azrieli. 

Earl Grey SPS 


East York C.I. 

Remembering and Acts of Kindness: Magda Hilf 

Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary 

School 

In Conversation with Miriam Frankel 

Glenforest Secondary School 

In Conversation with Amek Adler 

Generously co-sponsored by Anita Ekstein and 

family in loving memory of Frank Ekstein. 

Goodwin Learning Centre 

In Conversation with Andy Réti 

Greenwood College School 

In Conversation with Gerda Frieberg 

Generously co-sponsored by Lorraine & Alan 

Sandler in memory of 1.5 million Jewish children 

who were murdered in the Holocaust. 

Kenton Learning Centre 

In Conversation with Faigie Libman 

King Christian School 

In Conversation with Helen Yermus 

Generously co-sponsored by Circle of Care. 

The Leo Baeck Day School - South Campus 

(Kimel Family Chapel) 


The Linden School 

In Conversation with Howard Kleinberg 

Louis-Honoré Fréchette School 

Hidden Gold with author Ella Burakowski 

Maple High School 

In Conversation with Judy Lysy 

Mother Teresa Catholic Elementary School 

In Conversation with Leonard Vis 

Netivot HaTorah Day School 

In Conversation with Esther Fairbloom 

Northern Secondary School 

In Conversation with Gerda Frieberg and Elly Gotz 

Generously co-sponsored by Roslyn & Ralph Halbert. 

Peoples Christian Academy 

In Conversation with Felicia Carmelly 

Royal St. George’s College 

In Conversation with Rose Lipszyc 

Generously co-sponsored by Guido Smit in tribute 

to Jan Smit, Righteous among the Nations. 

Sacred Heart High School Religious Studies 

Classes 

In Conversation with Esther Fairbloom 

Sir Richard Scott Catholic Elementary School 

In Conversation with Denise Hans 

Stephen Lewis Secondary School 

In Conversation with Leonard Vis 

Generously co-sponsored by the Ernie Weiss 

Memorial Fund in loving memory of Ernie Weiss, 

who survived the Holocaust, and the entire family 

from Mád, Hungary, who did not. 

Stouffville Christian School 


Generously co-sponsored by Lily & Daniel Kim in 

memory of her grandparents in British Columbia; 

and in memory of Ada Wynston, without whom 

Christian-Jewish Dialogue Toronto wouldn’t have 

been possible. 

Thornhill Woods Public School 

In Conversation with Gershon Willinger 

Toronto French School 


Generously co-sponsored by Erika Biro in memory 

of George Biro. 

Westmount Collegiate 

In Conversation with Eva Meisels 

William Lyon Mackenzie CI 

In Conversation with Vera Schiff 

The Woodlands Secondary School 

In Conversation with Miriam Frankel 

Ulpanat Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools) 

The Woman in Gold & Hannah Lessing 

Generously co-sponsored by the Frankel Family 

Foundation, in loving memory of Miriam Frankel’s 

parents, sisters and brother. 

University of Toronto - Mississauga, Women and 

Gender Studies Program 

Women and the Holocaust 

Judy Weissenberg Cohen 

Generously co-sponsored by Circle of Care. 

Upper Canada College 

Student Program 

Generously co-sponsored by Nita Wexler in 

memory of her parents, Sidney & Norma Fromer; 

and by Hartley Hershenhorn in memory of his 

father, Kelly Hershenhorn, and in honour of his 

mother, Zelda Hershenhorn. 

Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools) 

The Future of Holocaust Education with Professor 

Doris Bergen 

Generously co-sponsored by Nili & Paul Ekstein 

and Shelley & Steven Ekstein in memory of Mordechai 

& Hilda Stern and members of their family. 

The York School 

The Future of Memory: Journeys of Past 

and Present with Dylan Wagman & Jacob Sofer 

and Holocaust survivor Leslie Meisels 


community programs 

One of the greatest strengths of Neuberger HEW 

is the city-wide participation in presenting and 

attending community programs. The Neuberger is 

grateful for this broad commitment to Holocaust 

Education Week and is pleased to list these independent 

programs on the following pages of the 

HEW printed program and online guide. 

The views expressed by any presenter are their 

own and do not represent the views of the Sarah 

and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, 

its funders, or UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. 

The Neuberger is proud to present the annual 

Holocaust Education Week in a region with 

widespread interest in and support for ongoing 

Holocaust education. 

Last Folio: Yuri Dojc 

Time stood still in a small Jewish village in Slovakia 

until nearly 10 years ago when Canadian photographer 

Yuri Dojc returned. He visited a local Jewish 

school which had been locked since 1943. Decaying 

books on dusty shelves, the last witnesses of a 

once thriving culture, are treated by Dojc like the 

survivors that they each are—every one captured 

as a portrait, speaking a thousand words. 

Presented by the Art Gallery of Hamilton. 

EXHIBIT ON VIEW 22 October 2016–14 May 2017 

Art Gallery of Hamilton 

123 King Street West | Hamilton 

905–527–6610 | artgalleryofhamilton.com 

Gruber’s Journey 

(Călătoria lui Gruber) 

This 2008 Romanian film centres on Italian writer 

Curzio Malaparte, a member of the Italian Fascist 

Party. Fighting in Eastern Europe, Malaparte suffers 

an allergic reaction and desperately seeks the 

medical aid of Dr. Josef Gruber in Iaşi. During his 

search for the missing Jewish doctor, he witnesses 

shocking atrocities against the Jews in the city. 

Co-presented by the Consulate General of 

Romania in Toronto and Glendon College. 

Sunday, 30 October | 2:00 PM 

Glendon College 

2275 Bayview Avenue | Toronto 

416–585–2444 

Aliyah DaDa—the Holocaust 

in Romania 

Aliyah DaDa (2015, directed by Oana Giurgiu) is 

a Dadaist-style documentary about the Jewish 

people in Romania and their several migrations to 

Israel. The documentary sets out on a journey to 

uncover the reality of Romanian Jews’ aliyah told 

across history and in changing political times. 

Co-presented by the Consulate General of 

Romania in Toronto and Glendon College. 

Sunday, 30 October | 5:00 PM 

Glendon College 


416–585–2444 

Servants of God 

The Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II 

opened in Markowa, southeastern Poland, in March 

2016. Its mission is to commemorate those who 

risked or lost their lives observing universal human 

values under Nazi persecution in Poland. The film 

Servants of God honours Josef and Wiktoria Ulma 

and other Righteous Among the Nations. Screening 

followed by the personal testimony of Polish Holocaust 

survivor Sally Wasserman, who was rescued 

by a Polish couple. 

Presented by Scarboro Missions. 


Scarboro Missions 

2685 Kingston Road | Scarborough 

416–261–7135 

Turkish Passport 

This public screening of Turkish Passport is followed 

by a conversation with a Holocaust survivor. 

Diplomats posted to Turkish embassies and consulates 

in several European countries actively 

sought to save Turkish Jews from the devastation 

of the Holocaust. Turkish Passport recounts these 

acts of courage through extensive documentary 

research and interviews. 

Co-presented by the Intercultural Dialogue 

Institute GTA and Nile Academy. 

Wednesday, 2 November | 10:00 AM 

Nile Academy | 5 Blue Haven Crescent 

Toronto | 416–285–0115 

In Conversation with a 

Holocaust Survivor 

Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Helen Yermus will 

speak about her experiences during the Holocaust. 

Helen Yermus was born in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1932. 

She had to endure hardship, intimidation and fear 

in the Kovno Ghetto, where her brother was taken 

away and murdered. In 1944 the ghetto was liquidated, 

and her father was deported to Dachau, 

where he died of starvation. Helen and her mother 

were taken to the Stutthof concentration camp. 

Both survived the camp and immigrated to Canada 

together in 1948. At this interfaith program, Helen 

will speak to her experiences and lead a discussion 

on the Holocaust and the benefits of interfaith 

relations. 

Co-presented by Shaarei-Beth El Congregation 

of Oakville and St. Simon’s Anglican Church. 


St. Simons Anglican Church 

1450 Litchfield Road | Oakville 

905–849–6000 × 11 

Cultural Rupture and 

Restitution: The Contested 

Fate of Plundered Eastern 

European Jewish Libraries 

and Archives 

Professor Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor 

of Modern Jewish Studies, will focus on the theft and 

destruction of Jewish archives and libraries during 

the Holocaust, the complications of their recovery, 

reconstitution, preservation, and, ultimately, their 

interpretation by generations distant from prewar 

Jewish life. 

Presented by Temple Emanu-El. 


Temple Emanu-El | 120 Old Colony Road 

Toronto | 416–449–3880 



Remembering Resistance 

One of the more successful resistance groups in The 

Netherlands was the Westerweel Group, which rescued 

some 250 Jewish youth. What characterized 

its members? What was involved in this rescue effort? 

Guido Smit was born in a kibbutz. His Jewish mother 

fled from Germany to Holland a few weeks before 

the Second World War broke out. His father, Jan Smit, 

was a member of the Westerweel Group. In 1964, 

Jan Smit was recognized as one Yad Vashem’s Righteous 

among the Nations. 


St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic Church 

1300 Leslie Street | Toronto | 416–447–5571 

Aktion T4—the Nazi 

“Euthanasia” Program 

Framed as a euthanasia program, Aktion T4 was 

a Nazi initiative that identified and exterminated 

people with mental, physical and developmental 

disabilities at killing centres, which were a precursor 

to the death camps. This interactive session 

teaches how a government used the medical establishment, 

bolstered by propaganda and legislation, 

to convince its population that some people were 

“unworthy of living.” It will link memories of the past 

with current experiences and atrocities. Presenters: 

Alanna Sheinberg, Nicole Lipsey & Ellen Rajzman. 

Presented by Reena Community Residence. 


Reena Community Residence 

49 Lebovic Campus Drive | Vaughan 

905–889–6484 



Hungarian Holocaust survivor Eva Meisels will 

speak about her personal experiences during the 

Holocaust. For her bio, see page 32. Copies of 

Suddenly the Shadow Fell are published by and 

generously provided by the Azrieli Foundation and 

will be available for author signing following 

the program. A short video, Holocaust Lessons for 

Humanity, will also be screened. Refreshments 

will be served. This program is open to all ages. 

Co-presented by the Aurora United Church. 


Trinity Anglican Church 

79 Victoria Street | Aurora 

905–727–1935 

De la clandestinité à 

l’immigration au Canada: 

le destin d’une enfant cachée 

Née en 1931 à Paris, Muguette Myers est l’auteure 

des mémoires Les Lieux du courage publiés au 

printemps 2016 par la Fondation Azrieli. 

Lors d’une rencontre-discussion, Muguette 

témoignera de cette période sombre, rendant 

hommage au courage sans faille de sa mère 

et des habitants de Champlost, jusqu’à son immigration 

au Canada au lendemain de la guerre. 

Elle sera accompagnée par Antoine Burgard 

qui termine actuellement sa thèse de doctorat 

en histoire, portant sur l’immigration des jeunes 

survivants de l’Holocauste au Canada dans 

l’immédiat après-guerre. Des exemplaires des 

mémoires seront gracieusement offerts par la 

Fondation Azrieli à la suite du programme, pour 

être dédicacés par l’auteure. 

Co-parrainée par la Fondation Azrieli. 


Alliance française Toronto 


416–922–2014 or 514–282–1155 

BESA: The Promise 

More than seven years in the making, Besa: the 

Promise presents a powerful human drama compounded 

by a devastating twist. It is a story that 

bridges generations and religions, uniting fathers 

and sons, Muslims and Jews. 

Presented by the Noor Cultural Centre. 


Noor Cultural Centre | 123 Wynford Drive 

Toronto | 416–444–7148 

Soviet Jewish Memory of 

Encountering Perpetrators of 

the Holocaust 

Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Associate 

Professor of Yiddish Studies and the director of the 

Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the 

University of Toronto. Shternshis is the author of 

Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the 

Soviet Union, 1923–1939. She will speak about the 

memories of the Soviet Army during the liberation 

of the death camps. Books will be available for 


Presented by Beth Sholom Synagogue. 


Beth Sholom Synagogue 

1445 Eglinton Avenue West | Toronto 

416–783–6103 

The Real Inglorious Bastards 

The story of Operation Greenup, when two young 

Jewish emigrants and a Wehrmacht officer parachuted 

one perilous winter night into the Austrian 

Alps, risking their lives to strike back at Nazi Germany. 

Screening followed by discussion with the 

film’s producer and a family member of one of the 

film’s subjects who fought the Nazis. This program 

addresses questions of how “the future of memory” 

is created through technology and narrative. 

Co-presented by the Oraynu Congregation for 

Humanistic Judaism and Don Heights Unitarian 

Congregation. 


Don Heights Unitarian Congregation 

18 Wynford Drive | Toronto 

416–854–0133 



or call 416–631–5689. 



Talking About the Holocaust 

with Our Children 

How do we answer our children’s questions about 

the Holocaust and make it accessible and relevant 

to them? How young is too young to begin the discussion, 

and how do we ensure the memory of the 

Holocaust be passed onto the next generation? 

Award-winning author Kathy Kacer will share her 

knowledge and experience as we navigate through 

this difficult but important journey as parents and 

educators. Books will be available for purchase and 


Presented by Robbins Hebrew Academy. 


Robbins Hebrew Academy 


416–781–5658 

A Man of Conscience 

This documentary film recounts the thrilling story 

of Morris Saxe, a humanitarian who managed to 

bring 79 children from Poland to his farm school 

in Georgetown, Ontario in the 1920s. Saxe faced 

difficulties both from the government and his own 

community yet persevered to save these children 

from the devastation of the Second World War. 

David Fleishman, Morris Saxe’s grandson, will 

introduce the film. 

Register at bethdavid.com or call 416–633–5500. 

Presented by Beth David Synagogue. 


Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue 

55 Yeomans Road | Toronto 

416–633–5500 

Lessons of the Holocaust: 

An Author’s Presentation 

When Professor Michael Marrus was a student, the 

Holocaust—the catastrophe of European Jewry— 

was hardly a footnote to the study of the Second 

World War. Now, it is seen as a foundational event 

of the 20th century. Who defines the lessons from 

the Second World War? Where do we look—to 

victims, perpetrators, others? Why do the lessons 

change over time? Books will be available for purchase 


Presented by Holy Blossom Temple. 


Holy Blossom Temple 


416–789–3291 

Memory in the Shadows 

Mitch Smolkin is the sole Canadian contributor to 

In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the 

Third Generation, a collection of essays published in 

2016 by Valentine Mitchell Press. He will read from 

his chapter entitled “Strength in the Shadows: Shifting 

Perspectives on the Integrity of Intergenerational 

Healing,” a work focusing on the intergenerational 

transmission of trauma. He will also speak about 

current research into how we process and cope with 

traumatic experience. Books will be available for 


Presented by Beth Radom Congregation. 


Beth Radom Congregation 

18 Reiner Road | Toronto | 416–636–3451 

Brundibar Revisited: 

Arts-Based Approaches to 

Holocaust Education 

This 2014 documentary follows a Berlin-based youth 

theatre group as it stages the opera Brundibar, 

which was performed more than 50 times by Jewish 

children in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Accompanied 

by Greta Klingsberg, one of the few remaining 

survivors of the original cast, the young Germans 

travel to Theresienstadt to learn about the terrors 

of the Holocaust, and the conditions in which the 

opera played an invaluable role (2014, English, 88 

minutes). Post-screening discussion facilitated by 

Dr. Belarie Zatzman. 

Presented by Prosserman JCC. 

thursday, 3 November | 7:30 PM 

Lipa Green Centre | 4600 Bathurst Street 

Toronto | 416–638–1881 × 4235 

The Dark Side of Memory 

Lindsay Ann Cox will present her research on 

Christian-Jewish relations in this panel on the 

future of Holocaust education. She will outline 

challenges and possible solutions to understanding 

the Holocaust in the 21st century. 

Presented by Forest Hill United Church. 


Forest Hill United Church | 2 Wembley Road 

Toronto | 416–737–8258 

The Power of Good 

This 2002 documentary tells the story of Nicholas 

Winton, who organized the Kindertransport rescue 

mission of 669 children from German-occupied 

Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War. 


Hazelton Place Retirement Residence 

111 Avenue Road | Toronto | 416–928–0111 

Memory and Justice: 

The Armenian Genocide 

Raffi Sarkissian, founder and chair of the Sara 

Corning Centre for Genocide Education, will present 

about the importance of memory and justice 

and the challenges faced in remembering and 

commemorating the Armenian Genocide in the 

face of genocide denial and the passing of the 

surviving generation. This program takes place 

during Friday night services. 

Presented by Temple Kol Ami. 


Temple Kol Ami | 36 Atkinson Avenue 

Thornhill | 905–709–2620 



or call 416–631–5689. 



Holocaust Survivors in Israel 

Michael Maor will speak about Holocaust survivors 

in Israel, and efforts to bring Eichmann to justice 

in Israel. Maor spent his formative years fleeing for 

his life in Europe until his arrival in Israel in 1945. 

Then, he served in many branches of the Israeli 

Army and Intelligence Services. The program occurs 

during Shabbat services, followed by a kiddush 

and Q & A. See p.46 for Michael Maor’s keynote. 

Presented by Pride of Israel Synagogue. 

Saturday, 5 November | 9:00 AM 

(during Shabbat services) 

The Pride of Israel Synagogue 

59 Lissom Crescent | Toronto | 416–226–0111 

To Unveil and Heal 

Jacquie Buncel is a poet and Holocaust educator. 

She will read from her collection, Turning the Corner 

at Dusk. She will explore her mother’s experience 

as a hidden child in France and her father’s story as 

a child survivor and orphan. The horror lives alongside 

altruism and resistance—a testimony to the 

strength of the human spirit. Jacquie will explore 

second generation learning, remembering and moving 

forward as part of the Shabbat service. 

Presented by Congregation Shir Libeynu. 


(SHABBAT MORNING SERVICE) 

MILES NADAL JCC 

750 Spadina Avenue | THIRD FLOOR 

Toronto | 416–465–5488 

Sustaining and 

Maintaining Memory 

How can we meet the challenges of keeping the 

memory of the Shoah alive when the survivors 

pass away? Dr. Jack Lipinsky discusses the 

advantages and disadvantages of various print 

and electronic methods and the possible issues 

that may arise with changing the authenticity 

of survivor memories. 

Presented by Stashover Slipia Congregation. 


(during Shabbat services) 

Anshei Staszow-Slipi Congregation 

11 Sultana Avenue | Toronto | 416–787–5443 

Transforming the Grip 

of Memory: A Workshop 

For those who are not Holocaust survivors, our formative 

experiences learning about the Holocaust 

shaped us deeply, in both constructive and traumatizing 

ways. This participatory workshop integrates 

theory and personal narratives, offering tools to 

discern and heal the impact of these memories on 

our individual and collective identity, fears, creativity, 

relationships and sense of the possible. Workshop 

facilitator Rabbi Miriam Margles, rabbi of 

Danforth Jewish Circle, earned an MTS from Harvard 

and a BFA from York University. 

Presented by First Narayever Congregation. 


First Narayever Congregation 

187 Brunswick Avenue 

Toronto | 416–927–0546 



Hungarian Holocaust survivor Leslie Meisels will 


For his bio, see page 39. Copies of Suddenly the 

Shadow Fell are published by and generously provided 

by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available 

for author signing following the program. 

Presented by the Rock Community Church. 


Rock Community Church 

249 Clarence Street | Woodbridge 

416–881–8200 



This program will feature a short film, Toyland, a 

musical performance, and the personal testimony 

of Polish Holocaust survivor, Esther Fairbloom. 

Esther Fairbloom was born in the ghetto in Tarnopol, 

Poland, likely in 1941. When the Nazis began deporting 

Jews from the ghetto, her sister hid on a farm. 

Her mother asked the Mother Superior of the Catholic 

orphanage to hide six-month-old Esther. After 

the war, Esther learned that her parents had been 

killed. At the age of five, she was reunited with and 

adopted by an aunt and uncle. She immigrated to 

Canada ten years later. 

Presented by St. Timothy Presbyterian Church. 


St. Timothy Presbyterian Church 

106 Ravenscrest Drive | Toronto 

416–626–7789 



Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Faigie (Schmidt) 

Libman will speak about her experience during 

the Holocaust. Faigie Libman was born in Kovno, 

Lithuania, in 1934, an only child. In 1941, she and 

her family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto. 

When the ghetto was liquidated in 1944, her father 

was taken to Dachau, where he perished. Faigie 

and her mother were transferred—first to Stutthof, 

then to three slave labour camps—before they 

were liberated by the Soviet Army. They immigrated 

to Canada in 1948. The program includes Hebrew 

songs and dances. 

Presented by Friends of Jesus Christ, Canada. 


Friends of Jesus Christ, Canada 

181 Nugget Avenue | Scarborough 

416–605–7212 

Transmission of Memory 

Scott Masters created the acclaimed Oral History 

Project at Crestwood College. His students learn 

about the events and atrocities of the Second World 

War and are encouraged to connect with a survivor 

of the era through home visits and visits to local 

hospitals and retirement homes. His multimedia 

approach is recognized as a useful pedagogical 

tool. Scott and some of his students will discuss 

the impact of their projects on their lives. 

This program is sponsored by Anne Zworth 

Holocaust Education Fund and presented by 

Temple Har Zion. 


Temple Har Zion 

7360 Bayview Avenue | Thornhill 

905–889–2252 



Musical Memories 

of the Vilna Ghetto 

A moving, bittersweet reflection on the rich cultural 

hub of the Vilna Ghetto, which gave birth to a unique 

wealth of songs about daily life, love, survival, 

bravery and resistance. Cantor Deborah Staiman 

will illuminate and chronicle life in the Vilna Ghetto 

through songs, including Vilne, Shtiler Shtiler, Friling, 

and recount the story of Shmerke Kaczerginski 

(1908–1954), Vilna poet, cultural activist, folklorist, 

partisan and eminent collector of Shoah songs, 

whose life was devoted to preserving memory. With 

pianist Asher Farber and violinist Jessica Deutsch. 

Presented by National Council of Jewish Women 

of Canada Toronto. 


National Council of Jewish Women 

of Canada Toronto 


416–633–5100 

March of the Living: 

Passing the Torch of 

Holocaust Memory 

Since 1988, over 220,000 young people and Holocaust 

survivors have traveled to Poland and Israel 

on the March of the Living where they visited oncethriving 

sites of Jewish life. On Holocaust Remembrance 

Day, the students and survivors march from 

Auschwitz to Birkenau in memory of all victims of 

Nazi genocide and against prejudice, intolerance 

and hate. The Canadian March of the Living Teen 

Choir will present songs performed on the trip, interspersed 

with touching Holocaust stories. 

Presented by St. Ansgar Lutheran Church. 


St. Ansgar Lutheran Church 

1498 Avenue Road | Toronto 

416–783–3570 

Bringing Eichmann to Justice 

Michael Maor will speak about the involvement 

of the Mossad in capturing and bringing Eichmann 

to trial in Israel. Maor spent his formative years 

fleeing for his life in Europe until his arrival in Israel 

in 1945, where he served in the Israeli Army and 

Intelligence Services. 

Presented by Congregation Bnai Torah. 


Congregation Bnai Torah 

465 Patricia Avenue | Toronto 

416–665–6651 

The Sound of Silent Voices 

This project allows student composers the opportunity 

to musically interpret poems written by 

children during the Holocaust. After each poem 

is read by Holocaust survivor Gershon Willinger, 

the Ton Beau String Quartet will perform a moving 

composition inspired by that poem. Rabbi 

Daniel Korobkin, senior rabbi at BAYT, will also 

participate. Dr. Zachary Ebin, artistic director, 

will introduce each poem and composer. 

Admission $20. Students $10. Register online 

at www.bayt.ca or at the door. 

Presented by Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto 

Congregation. 


Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto 

Congregation | 613 Clark Avenue West 

Thornhill | 905–886–3810 



Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff 

(nee Katz) will speak about her experience during 

the Holocaust. Vera Schiff was born in Prague, 

Czechoslovakia, in 1926. In 1942 the entire Katz 

family was deported to Theresienstadt, where all 

but Vera perished. She was liberated by the Soviet 

Army in May 1945. Vera is the author of the awardwinning 

Theresienstadt: The Town the Nazis Gave to 

the Jews; Hitler’s Inferno: Eight Personal Histories 

from the Holocaust and Letters to Veruska. 

This program will be given in church (instead of the 

usual homily). Books will be available for purchase 


Co-presented by Thorncliffe Park Postoral Charge 

and Don Mills United Church. 

Sunday, 6 November | 10:00 AM 

Thorncliffe Park United Church 

16 Thorncliffe Park Drive | Toronto 

The Ship to Nowhere: 

On Board the Exodus 

Rona Arato is the award-winning author of the 

children’s book The Last Train. Arato’s second book 

on the Holocaust, The Ship to Nowhere—On Board 

the Exodus, tells the story of 11-year-old Rachel 

Fletcher and her journey to Palestine. Books will be 

available for purchase and author signing following 

the program. 

Presented by Congregation Habonim. 


Congregation Habonim 

5 Glen Park Avenue | Toronto | 416–605–0850 

Hitler could not Destroy 

their Memory: The Yiddish 

Video Project 

זייער אָ‏ נדענק איז ניט צו פֿ‏ אַ‏ רניכטן:‏ 

דערוויסט זיך וועגן ייִדישע 

שרַײבערס און קינסטלערס אין 

באָ‏ ריס סאַ‏ נדלערס גרויסן ווידעאָ‏ ־ 

פּ‏ ראָ‏ יעקט 

Learn about the writers and artists of one of the 

world’s most vibrant pre-Holocaust cultures—who 

they were and why they matter today. In his massive 

video project, Boris Sandler, editor emeritus of 

the “Forverts,” brings to a new generation the lives, 

loves, arguments and streets that made Yiddish 

culture live. This lecture, including a screening of a 

few short films, will be in Yiddish. The films have 

English subtitles. 

Co-presented by the Committee for Yiddish UJA 

Federation of Greater Toronto, Toronto Workmen’s 

Circle/Arbeiter Ring, Friends of Yiddish. 


Toronto Workmen’s Circle 

471 Lawrence Avenue West | Toronto 

416–631–5702 



We Polish Jews: The Troubled 

Holocaust Legacy of Julian 

Tuwim, 1894–1953 

Poet Julian Tuwim was among the first and most 

powerful literary voices of the Holocaust experience. 

Born in Lodz, Tuwim was a leading Polish-Jewish 

poet during the 1920–30s. In 1944, Tuwim wrote 

an anguished lament and manifesto of murdered 

Jewry, ‘We Polish Jews,’ as a refugee in New York. 

In Tuwim’s writing, identity, belonging, betrayal 

and memory coalesce in unexpected ways. This 

presentation will be given by Dr. Myer Siemiatycki, 

a professor in the Department of Politics & Public 

Administration at Ryerson University. Books will be 

available for purchase and author signing following 

the program. 

Presented by Lodzer Centre Congregation. 


Lodzer Centre Congregation 

12 Heaton Street | Toronto | 905–763–0554 



Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz will speak 

about his experience during the Holocaust. Elly Gotz 

was born in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1928. His father 

worked in a bank and his mother was a nurse. Beginning 

in 1941, Elly spent three years in the ghetto in 

Kovno and then one year in Dachau concentration 

camp, where he was liberated by the American army 

in 1945. After the war, he lived in Germany, Norway, 

Rhodesia and South Africa. Elly immigrated to 

Canada in 1964. 

Co-presented by the International Christian 

Embassy Jerusalem—Canada (ICEJ) and Catch 

the Fire Toronto. 


Catch the Fire Airport Church 

272 Attwell Drive | Toronto 

647–232–5394 



Hungarian Holocaust survivor Edward Fisch will 


For his bio, see page 35. The program includes 

social media education that explores Holocaust 

memory. 

Presented by the BWG Diversity Action Group. 


Bradford West Gwillimbury Library 

425 Holland Street West | Bradford 

416–825–1479 



Polish Holocaust survivor Amek Adler will speak 

about his experience during the Holocaust. Amek 

Adler was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1928 and grew 

up in Lodz. In 1939, his family escaped to Warsaw 

and then to Radom. In 1943, Amek was deported to 

Auschwitz-Birkenau, and from there was eventually 

shipped to Dachau, where his father and one brother 

perished. Amek was liberated on April 28, 1945 and 

immigrated to Canada in 1954. This is a free program 

for visitors to learn about the Holocaust and 

the importance of remembrance. 

Presented by Old Fort Erie. 


Old Fort Erie | 350 Lakeshore Road 

Fort Erie | 905–871–0540 

Rock the Shtetl 

Rock the Shtetl honours the soulful music of the 

Jewish past with a contemporary sensibility. This 

program is based on a repertoire of Klezmer melodies 

and Yiddish songs, music that was intrinsic to 

Eastern European Jewish life before the Holocaust. 

Music is an important vehicle for keeping alive our 

collective memory of an aspect of the world that 

was and for bequeathing that memory to future 

generations. 

Presented by Revera–Forest Hill Place Retirement 

Residence. 


Revera–Forest Hill Place Retirement 

Residence | 645 Castlefield Avenue 

Toronto | 416–785–1511 

Samuel Bak: 

The Artist of Jewish Fate 

Samuel Bak was born in Vilna in 1933, on the eve 

of the Holocaust. Aged six when the Nazis invaded 

his world, his community, family and childhood 

were shattered. Through his art, Bak creates a visual 

language to tell and remind the world of its most 

desperate moments, by using symbols and asking 

questions. He lets the viewer decide how, if at 

all, to fix it. The idea of Tikkun Olam occupies Bak 

constantly. This program will be presented by 

Rouhama Danto. 

Presented by Shaarei Tefillah. 


Shaarei Tefillah Congregation 

3600 Bathurst Street 

Toronto | 416–787–1631 

Understanding the Impact of 

the Holocaust on Descendants 

of Survivors 

The Wierzbniker Society’s Annual Memorial Program 

and candle-lighting ceremony will be combined 

with a presentation by Mitch Smolkin who will discuss 

how trauma can be transmitted across generations 

and read and perform from his writing. For 

more information, see p.44. Books will be available 

for purchase and author signing following the 

program. 

Co-presented by The Wierzbniker Society and 

Bialik Hebrew Day School. 


Bialik Hebrew Day School 


416–485–3390 



or call 416–631–5689. 



Enemy of the Reich 

Film screening about Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim 

princess who became a spy for the British, was 

captured in France, and executed in Dachau. Raheel 

Raza will explore Noor Inayat Khan’s life during 

the Second World War. 

Presented by Muslims Facing Tomorrow. 


The Living Arts Centre 

4141 Living Arts Drive | Mississauga 

416–505–1613 



Romanian Holocaust survivor Felicia Carmelly will 

speak about her experience during the Holocaust. 

For her bio, see page 32. Copies of her book, Shattered! 

50 Years of Silence, History and Voices of the 

Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria, will be available 

for purchase and author signing following the 

program. Copies of her memoir, Across the Rivers 

of Memory, are published by and generously provided 

by the Azrieli Foundation. 

Presented by the Consulate General of Romania in 

Toronto. 


Consulate General of Romania in Toronto 

89 Don Mills Road, Unit 501 

Toronto | 416–585–2444 

The Last Mentsch 

After a lifetime of running from his past, an ageing 

German-Jewish Auschwitz survivor (Mario Adorf), 

joined by a young Turkish woman (Katharina Derr), 

sets out on a powerful journey to rediscover his 

roots. A moving and deeply human portrait of trauma, 

connection, and healing. Toronto premiere with 

guest speakers author/artist Bernice Eisenstein at 

4:00 pm and Rabbi Elyse Goldstein at 7:30 pm. 

$15 General Admission (including seniors); $10 

Young Adults (age 18–35). Box office opens one hour 

before the screening start time. All single tickets 

are cash sale only and subject to availability. 

Presented by the Toronto Jewish Film Society; 

co-presented by City Shul and Goethe-Institut 

Toronto. 

Sunday, 6 November | 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM 

Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 

750 Spadina Avenue | Toronto 

416–924–6211 

Musicians in Exile 

Austrian concert flautist Ulrike Anton and pianist 

Anna Ronai perform a concert for flute and piano 

that features works by composers who were either 

forced into exile or murdered by the Nazi regime. 

Dr. Anton, a well known flautist and musicologist, 

will also speak about each composer. 

Co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum. 


Melrose Community Church 

375 Melrose Avenue | Toronto 

416–785–1980 

‏”ובחרת בחיים...“‏ 

שבוע הנצחת השואה בטורונטו ותכנית המפגש גאים 

להזמינכם למפגש מרגש עם מיכאל מאור.‏ 

‏*המפגש יתקיים בשפה העברית 

Michael Maor will speak on the theme of Holocaust 

survivors in Israel, and efforts to bring Eichmann to 

justice in Israel. This presentation will be in Hebrew. 

Presented by Hamifgash. 


Schwartz/Reisman Centre 

Community Volunteer Boardroom 

9600 Bathurst Street | Vaughan 

416–638–1881 × 4472 | GalyaS@srcentre.ca 

What Constitutes Genocide? 

Re-examining Rwanda, 

Burundi, and the Democratic 

Republic of Congo 

More than 6 million people have been killed in the 

Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet when we speak 

of genocide and Central Africa, most think Rwanda. 

Why? Burundi has seen the same kind of violence as 

Rwanda, but is considered a “civil war.” This panel 

will look at the differences in coverage and discuss 

the politics of genocide, which determines how 

things are seen as well as remembered. 

Presented by the United Jewish People’s Order 

(UJPO). 


Winchevsky Centre 

585 Cranbrooke Avenue | Toronto 

416–789–5502 

A Voice among the Silent: The 

Legacy of James G. McDonald 

This documentary is the first to shine light on James 

McDonald’s remarkable efforts to warn the world 

of Hitler’s plan for the Jews. The son of Catholic 

immigrants, McDonald was one of the first Americans 

to meet Hitler in 1933. Shocked by Hitler’s 

threats, McDonald, as the League of Nations High 

Commissioner for Refugees, worked tirelessly to 

find safe havens for refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. 

Discussion with filmmaker Shuli Eshel to follow 

screening. DVDs available for purchase and signing. 

Co-presented by Beth Torah Congregation and 

Chenstochover Aid Society. 


Beth Torah Congregation 

47 Glenbrook Avenue | Toronto 

416–782–4495 

Preserving Memories for 

Future Generations 

Holocaust survivors William Glied and Hedy Bohm 

together with March of the Living students discuss 

personal experiences during the Holocaust and the 

effect on young people so distant from the past. 

Bill Glied was born in Subotica, Serbia in 1930. He 

was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 along 

with his family. He was later transferred to the 

Dachau concentration camp in Germany and worked 

as a slave labourer. Bill was liberated by the US 

Army in April and immigrated to Canada as an 

orphan in 1947. For Hedy Bohm’s bio, see page 36. 

Sponsored by the Dr. Emil & Bessie Glaser 

Memorial Lecture. 


Beth Tzedec Congregation 


416–781–3511 



or call 416–631–5689. 



Nobody was Interested, 

Nobody Asked 

Max Beer’s 2015 film explores the immigration history 

of Holocaust survivors who came to Montreal, 

their new lives here, and their reception by the local 

community. Screening followed by a discussion with 

the director, Max Beer. 

Presented by Beth Tikvah. 


Beth Tikvah Synagogue 

3080 Bayview Avenue | Toronto | 416–221–3433 

A Blind Hero: The 

Love of Otto Weidt 

This powerful docudrama focuses on the little-known 

story of Otto Weidt, one of the Righteous Among 

the Nations at Yad Vashem. In 1943, when Berlin was 

declared “judenrein,” Weidt—who was deaf and 

nearly blind—risked his life to save the lives of dozens 

of his employees, most of whom were Jewish 

and also blind. Includes short pre-film lecture about 

disabilities and the Holocaust with Dr. Geoffrey 

Reaume. 

Presented by the Access and Inclusion 

Department and Active 55+ Program, Miles Nadal 

Jewish Community Centre. 

Monday, 7 November | 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM 

Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 

750 Spadina Avenue | Toronto | 416–924–6211 

UJA Young Leaders’ 

Dinner of Miracles 

Opportunities are limited for Jewish young adults 

to interact with Holocaust survivors in a meaningful 

way. UJA Young Leaders’ Dinner of Miracles is 

a special moment for both groups to share a meal 

and experiences in an informal setting. Over a 

three-course dinner, join hundreds of young adults 

for the 12th annual evening of dialogue and interaction 

with Holocaust survivors. Featuring a keynote 

from Jennifer Teege, granddaughter of notorious 

Nazi commandant of Plaszow, Amon Goeth, and 

emceed by Jeanne Beker. 

Space is limited; registration required. $60 ticket 

includes three-course dinner, Kashruth observed. 

Register today at: www.ujaevents.com/registration/ 

DOM2016. Tickets intended for those in their 20s 

and 30s. Business attire. 


Forest Hill Jewish Centre 


lprag@ujafed.org | 416–635–2883 × 5374 

Helping the Jews in 

German-occupied Poland 

Aid to the Jewish people is one of the most important 

and discussed topics of the history of the German 

occupation of Poland during the Second World War. 

Five outstanding specialists in the field, Professors 

Natalia Aleksiun, Samuel Kassow, Dariusz Stola, 

Paweł Śpiewak and Joshua Zimmerman, will 

explore the contested topic in a panel moderated 

by Professor Piotr Wróbel. Special attention will 

be given to Żegota, the clandestine Council for Aid 

to Jews. 

Co-presented by the Embassy of the Republic of 

Poland in Canada, the Polish-Jewish Heritage 

Foundation of Canada and Konstanty Reynert Chair 

of Polish History at the University of Toronto; with 

support from Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish 

Studies and Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair 

of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. 


George Ignatieff Theatre 

U of T | 15 Devonshire Place Toronto 

416–575–3420 

Testimony 

Staged reading of a new play about a man whose 

survivor mother committed suicide years earlier and 

his refusal to come to terms with it. His daughter, 

who works as an archivist of survivor testimonies, 

tries to understand his reticence to accept his mother’s 

suicide and his indifference towards Holocaust 

remembrance as a whole. Featuring dramatized 

monologues written by Medina members recalling 

stories of family members’ experiences with the 

Holocaust. 

Co-presented by the Medina Theatre Ensemble. 


Temple Sinai | 210 Wilson Avenue 

Toronto | 647–977–6015 

Return to the Hiding Place 

When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland during 

the Second World War, a group of youth fought 

to save the lives of the innocent. Return to the 

Hiding Place recounts Corrie ten Boom’s army of 

untrained teenagers who navigated a deadly labyrinth 

of challenges to rescue the Jewish people in 

one of history’s most famous dramas (2014, English, 

1 hour 42 minutes). 

Co-presented by St. Gabriel’s Passionist Parish 

and the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem– 

Canada (ICEJ). 


St Gabriel’s Passionist Parish 

670 Sheppard Avenue East | Toronto 

416–221–8866 

The Fourth Generation: How 

Holocaust Memory is Changing 

Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust 

Studies at the University of Toronto, and author 

of numerous books and articles on religion, ethnicity 

and gender in the Second World War, Dr. Doris 

Bergen will talk about this year’s Holocaust Education 

Week theme with a focus on how Holocaust 

memory is changing. Admission by advance reservation 

only ($20) by November 4. Lunch at 12:00 

noon; Lecture at 12:40 p.m. 

Lunch ‘N Learn presented by Beth Tikvah. 


Beth Tikvah Synagogue 


416–221–3433 × 316 

Our Responsibility 

to Remember 

Looking to the future, how will we take responsibility 

for new generations learning about the victims 

of the Holocaust? How will they hear the personal 

stories of those who survived? Through selected 

video clips and student projects, this program will 

explore how artistic skills, photography, and new 

technologies are being used to carry forward the 

visual and auditory memories of victims and survivors 

of genocide. Selected materials will be on 

display, including items from the John and Molly 

Pollock Holocaust Collection. 

Presented by the Centennial College Libraries 

with the School of Advancement and the Centre for 

Global Citizenship, Education and Inclusion. 


Centennial College | 941 Progress Avenue 

Toronto | 416–289–5000 



The Future of Memory 

This program features the students of Crestwood 

Preparatory College and their instructor, Scott 

Masters, discussing their decade-long project to 

interview Holocaust survivors, interspersed with 

video clips. For a complete description, see p. 45. 

Presented by Baycrest. 


Baycrest | Jacob Family Theatre 


416–785–2500 × 2271 

What Has the Holocaust 

Taught Us? 71 Years Later 

Professor Jacques Kornberg will give a 50-minute 

lecture on what we have learned from the Holocaust 

after seventy-one years. His lecture will be followed 

by short reflections given by expert commentators. 

The program concludes with time for audience 

questions. 

Presented by the University of Toronto, 

Regis College. 


Regis College | Chapel 

100 Wellesley Street West | Toronto 

416–922–5474 

Rock the Shtetl 

With Jonno Lightstone. See p. 47 for description 

of this musical program. 

Presented by Kensington Place Retirement 

Residence. 


Kensington Place Retirement Residence 

866 Sheppard Avenue West | Toronto 

416–636–9555 

Unheard Voices from the 

Asia-Pacific War 

ALPHA Education has been working hard to preserve 

the memories of the Asia-Pacific War, but 

there are still too many unheard experiences that 

leave gaps in our historical consciousness today. 

To bridge the gaps, youth will share how they carry 

the responsibility of remembrance through oral 

history projects and digital archive initiatives. The 

future of the Asia-Pacific War memories lies with 

their engagement. Books will be available for purchase 


Co-presented by ALPHA Education and the Equity 

Studies Program at New College. 


University of Toronto | New College 

William Doo Auditorium 

45 Willcocks Street | Toronto 

416–299–0111 

Confronting the Demon— 

Dispelling the Demon 

Eliane Labendz and Katka Reszke: two women on 

an identity quest. Growing up in a family of Polishborn 

Shoah survivors, Eliane was never told that 

she was Jewish nor much about Poland. Katka was 

born and raised in Poland with no awareness of her 

Jewish ancestry. They reveal their ways of making 

sense of experiences of memory and transition set 

against the landscape of troubled Polish-Jewish 

history, and a new curious present and future. 

Co-presented by the Consulate General of the 

Republic of Poland in Toronto and Congregation 

Habonim. 


Congregation Habonim 

5 Glen Park Avenue | Toronto 

Child Survivors and the 

Toronto Jewish Family and 

Child Service 

Dr. Paula Draper will speak about child survivors 

who came to Canada from 1948, and how JF&CS 

struggled to help them when social work was a 

young field and no one could imagine what survivors 

had experienced. Dr. Draper is a Holocaust historian 

specializing in memory history. She created and 

oversaw the Holocaust Documentation Project of 

the then-Toronto Holocaust and Educational Memorial 

Centre (now Neuberger HEC). She has taught 

at the University of Toronto and York University. 

Presented by Beth Lida Forest Hill Congregation. 


Beth Lida Forest Hill Congregation 

22 Gilgorm Road | Toronto 

416–489–2550 

The Holocaust and the 

Science of Memory 

On the cutting edge of neuroscience, Dr. Daniela 

Schiller’s research explores the possibility of traumatic 

memories being modified or altered, including 

the experience of Holocaust survivors and their 

memories. In conversation with Dr. Elliott Malamet, 

Dr. Schiller, herself a daughter of a survivor, will 

examine the nexus between Holocaust memory 

and trauma, and whether specific memories can 

be fixed or even “erased,” and the complex ethical 

questions surrounding such an enterprise. 

Presented by Torah in Motion. 


SHAAREI SHOMAYIM CONGREGATION 

470 GLENCAIRN AVENUE | TORONTO 

416–789–3213 



or call 416–631–5689. 





Polish Holocaust survivor Nathan Leipciger will 

speak about his experience during the Holocaust and 

his recently-published Azrieli Foundation memoir, 

The Weight of Freedom. For his bio, see page 16. 

Copies of The Weight of Freedom are generously 

provided by the Azrieli Foundation and will be 

available for author signing following the program. 

Presented by Beth Emeth Yehuda Synagogue. 


Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue 

FISCHTEIN HALL | 100 Elder Street | Toronto 

Modifying Emotional Memories 

When emotional memories become traumatic, it 

might be beneficial to erase fear memories altogether 

preventing them from resurfacing. New evidence 

in non-human species suggests this might 

be possible using pharmacological manipulations. 

Dr. Daniela Schiller is currently testing this possibility 

in humans by examining whether laboratory 

induced emotional memories can be erased using 

pharmacology as well as drug-free behavioral 

manipulations. Dr. Schiller is Associate Professor 

of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School of 

Medicine, Mt. Sinai, NY. 

Presented by Mount Sinai Joseph and Wolf Lebovic 

Health Complex. 


Mount Sinai 

Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Health Complex 

Ben Sadowski Auditorium 

18TH Floor | 600 University Avenue 

Toronto | 416–586–4800 

The Lesser-Known Transnistria 

Concentration Camps 

Arnold Buxbaum is a survivor of the Transnistria 

concentration and extermination camps of Jews of 

Bukovina, Bessarabia, Ukraine, and the cities of 

Dorohoi and Botosani. The experiences of survivors 

such as Arnold may be lesser-known than those of 

other concentration or extermination camps. Learn 

about this subject by hearing Arnold Buxbaum’s 

personal experiences and by watching a film about 

these camps. 

Presented by Bernard Betel Centre. 


Bernard Betel Centre 

1003 Steeles Avenue West | Toronto 

416–225–2112 

Musical Memories 

of the Vilna Ghetto 

See p. 46 for description of this musical program. 

Presented by Christie Gardens. 


Christie Gardens Apartments & Care Inc. 

600 Melita Crescent | Toronto 

416–530–1330 

Traumatic Memory, Narrative 

and Identity—Pathways to 

Understanding 

Research suggests a family’s or community’s narrative 

profoundly affects attitude and identity of 

future generations. Prof. Bonnie Burstow, expert on 

traumatic memory, and Jeff Wilkinson, educator 

and researcher, will explore how dialogue enhances 

present and future understanding by increasing 

knowledge and acceptance of experiences and 

memory of the historical other. Human rights advocate 

and educator, Dr. Karen Mock, will moderate. 

Presented by the Antisemitism and Holocaust Education 

Project (Enhancing Social Justice Education), 

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 


Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 

Peace Lounge | 7th floor 

252 Bloor Street West | Toronto 

416–782–1050 


Child of Holocaust Survivors 

Kitty Tepperman, daughter of Holocaust survivors 

Erna (Zweig) and Joseph Peretz, will speak about her 

parents’ personal experiences during the Holocaust. 

Open to the general public; specially recommended 

for teens and their families. 

Presented by BBYO Ontario. 


Leo & Sala Goldhar Conference and 

Celebration Centre | 9600 Bathurst Street 

Vaughan | 416–398–2004 



Hungarian Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg 

Cohen will speak about her experience during the 

Holocaust. Judy Weissenberg Cohen was born in 

Debrecen, Hungary, in 1928. She was deported to 

Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and survived Bergen- 

Belsen, a slave labour camp and a death march. She 

was liberated in 1945 and immigrated to Canada 

in 1948. 

This is a regular Sunday Worship Service featuring 

Judy Cohen’s testimony. Program includes a special 

music, scripture reading and message on theme. 

Presented by Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church. 


Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church 

425 Pacific Avenue | Toronto 

416–762–6427 

The Tattooed Torah 

The story of Sefer Torah #683—one of the 1564 

Czech Memorial Sifre Torah which constituted part 

of the treasure looted by the Nazis from 1939–1945 

from the desolated communities of Bohemia, Moravia, 

and Slovakia. Keynote speaker Rabbi Emeritus 

Larry Englander. 

Presented by Solel Synagogue. 


Solel Synagogue | 2399 Folkway Drive 

Mississauga | 905–820–5915 


SARAH AND CHAIM NEUBERGER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE 

All programs are free of 

charge unless otherwise 

noted. We regret any errors 

or omissions due to printing 

deadlines. The views 

expressed by any presenter 

during Holocaust Education 

Week are their own and do 

not represent the views of 

the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger 

Holocaust Education 

Centre or UJA Federation of 

Greater Toronto. 

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SARAH AND CHAIM 

NEUBERGER HOLOCAUST 

EDUCATION CENTRE 

SURVIVOR SPEAKERS’ 

BUREAU 

Amek A. Adler 

Claire Baum 

George Berman 

Hedy Bohm 

Felicia Carmelly 

Howard Chandler 

Judy Cohen 

Irene Csillag 

Anne Eidlitz 

Alexander Eisen 

Max Eisen 

Sally Eisner 

Anita Ekstein 

Esther Fairbloom 

Shary Marmor Fine 

Edward Fisch 

George Fox 

Miriam Frankel 

John Freund 

Gerda Frieberg 

Rosalind Goldenberg 

Edith Gelbard 

Bill Glied 

Mel Goldberg 

Mendel Good 

Elly Gotz 


Denise Hans 

Magda Hilf 

Lou (Leizer) Hoffer 

Jerry Kapelus 

Howard & Nancy Kleinberg 

Chava Kwinta 

Mark Lane 

Manny Langer 

Joe Leinburd 

Nathan Leipciger 

Faigie Libman 

Rose Lipszyc 

Judy Lysy 

Martin Maxwell 

Eva Meisels 

Leslie Meisels 

Andy Reti 

Sally Rosen 

Vera Schiff 

Faye Schulman 

Helen Schwartz 

George Scott 

Leonard Vis 

Lenka Weksberg 

Gershon Willinger 

Helen Yermus 

Roman Ziegler 

SARAH AND CHAIM 

NEUBERGER HOLOCAUST 

EDUCATION CENTRE 

Chair 

Shael Rosenbaum 

Immediate Past Chair 

Marilyn Sinclair 

Interim Director 

Dara Solomon 

Managing Director 

Carson Phillips, Ph.D. 

Manager of Operations 

Mary Siklos 

Manager, Public Programs 

Rachel Libman 

Education Associate 

Michelle Fishman 

Program Assistant 

Kit MacManus 

Librarian 

Anna Skorupsky 

Gedenkdiener 

Lorenz Glettler 

Administrative Assistant 

Iris Glesinger Lichtinshtein 

Advisory Committee 

Heshy Altbaum 

Howard Driman 

Dori Ekstein 

Anita Ekstein 

Catherine Gitzel 

Bill Glied 

Joseph Gottdenker 


Lily Kim 

Lisa Richman 

Joyce Rifkind 

Doris Rochman 

Rammy Rochman 

Jonathan Samuel 

Honey Sherman 

Leonard Vis 

Myra York 

Honorary Members 

Max Eisen 

Gerda Frieberg 

Elly Gotz 

Nate Leipciger 

UJA FEDERATION OF 

GREATER TORONTO 

Chair of the Board 

Morris Perlis 

Vice Chair 

Bruce Leboff 

President & CEO 

Adam Minsky 

2016 HOLOCAUST 

EDUCATION WEEK 

Co-Chairs 

Dori Ekstein 

Lily Kim 

Lisa Richman 

Liaisons & Volunteers 

Steven Albin 

Gail Avinoam 

Goldie Babarci 

Ken Bernknopf 

Claire Braseliten 

Robert Buckler 

Karen Budahazy 

Felicia Carmelly 

Honey Carr 

Sharon Chodirker 

Eric Cohen 

Sally Dale 

Jennifer Daly 

Howard Driman 

Ellen Gardner 

Sandra Gitlin 

Marilyn Goldberg 

Nicole Greenwood 

Hartley Hershenhorn 

Karen Igra 

Eileen Jadd 

Sheri Kagan 

Stephanie Kirsh 

Kendra Knoll 

Joy Kohn 

Eliane Labendz 

Karen Lasky 

Susan Lehner 

Arla Litwin 

Roz Lofsky 

Shely Mann 

Martin Maxwell 

Annette Metz-Pivnick 

Naomi Parness 

Jodi Porepa 

Hilary Rabie 

Andy Reti 

Joyce Rifkind 

Doris Rochman 

Rammy Rochman 

Jillian Rodak 

Julia Rowan 

Barbara Rusch 

Annette Sacks 

Mary Schneider 

Julie Silver 

Joan Shapero 

Rita Slapack 

Guido Smit 

Celine Szoges 

Kitty Tepperman 

Alan Wainer 

Jennifer Walsh 

Nita Wexler 

Rhonda Wolf 

LEGACY SYMPOSIUM 

Co-Chairs 

Jillian Rodak 

Jessica Pollock 

Committee 

Elizabeth Banks 

Stephanie Corazza 

Jon Livergant 

Dayna Simon 

Brenna Singer 

“SECOND G” SYMPOSIUM 

Co-Chairs 

Dori Ekstein 

Marilyn Sinclair 

Committee 

Isaac Applebaum 

Tamara Balitsky 

Marlene Brickman 

Annette Filler 

Michelle Glied-Goldstein 

Samuel Lepek 

Alan Lipszyc 

Felicia Posluns 

Honey Sherman 

Cori Shiff 

Dorothy Tessis 

Myra York 

SPECIAL THANKS 

Mira Goldfarb 

Donna Bernardo Ceriz 

Jeff Springer 

Austrian Cultural Forum 

Bernhard Faustenhammer 

Bettina Miller 

CIJA 

Jordan Kerbel 

Paul Michaels 

Madi Murariu 

HipsterHitler.com 

James Carr 

USC Shoah Foundation 

Kia Hays 

Karen Jungblut 

Scott B. Spencer 

USHMM 

Peter Fredlake 

Kristin Thompson 

Brochure Design 

Lauren Wickware 

laurenwickware.com 

Cover Artwork 

Amy Friend 

amyfriend.ca 

Brochure Printing 

Raw Brokers 

ISBN 978-0-9811031-3-66

Travel Study Programs 

International Holocaust 

Remembrance Day 

Student Symposia 

Raoul Wallenberg Day 

Film Screening 

Yom Hashoah 

(Holocaust Memorial Day) 


Testimony Preservation 

50 000 

The Neuberger offers dynamic and engaging opportunities for Holocaust education 

and commemoration attended by more than 50 000 members of the public, educators, 

students and young professionals annually. Join us at upcoming programs in 2017. 




Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre 


Sherman Campus 

4600 Bathurst Street 

Toronto, ON M2R 3V2 

416–631–5689 


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