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<strong>The</strong> Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre,<br />
UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto presents<br />
<strong>2–9</strong> <strong>November</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>
15 000<br />
Every year, more than 15 000 students from across Ontario<br />
visit the Neuberger’s Holocaust museum, attend our educational events,<br />
and participate in HEW programs.<br />
www.holocaustcentre.com<br />
2 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week
holocaust education weeK 2016<br />
On behalf <strong>of</strong> our dedicated volunteer committee, loyal partners and sponsors, we are proud to<br />
welcome you to the 36th annual Holocaust Education Week, presented by the Neuberger Holocaust<br />
Education Centre, UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto.<br />
Through the theme the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>, HEW 2016 will explore how future generations will<br />
perpetuate and innovate in the field <strong>of</strong> Holocaust education and remembrance. Whether through<br />
film, literature, art or new historical analysis, how the Holocaust is remembered in popular culture<br />
and the academic sphere will be <strong>of</strong> increasing relevance to the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust studies and<br />
remembrance. This year, HEW explores how memory <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust will continue to adapt to a<br />
changing technological landscape, global context, and the impact <strong>of</strong> losing personal survivor accounts.<br />
Core to Neuberger HEW is to provide students and young people with opportunities to hear firsthand<br />
testimony from Holocaust survivor speakers. Sadly, today’s students will be among the last to<br />
experience these integral accounts in person. Though HEW 2016 looks to the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
education, we are proud to <strong>of</strong>fer the transformative power <strong>of</strong> testimony for as long as possible. It<br />
is to these survivors, with gratitude and respect, that we dedicate the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>.<br />
Holocaust Education Week would not be possible without the partnership <strong>of</strong> community members,<br />
generous sponsors, and audiences committed to fighting intolerance and discrimination through<br />
Holocaust education. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity and leadership <strong>of</strong> our diverse and<br />
dedicated HEW 2016 sponsors.<br />
We thank our presenters, volunteers, colleagues, partners, generous donors and ambassadors,<br />
Neuberger staff, and especially Holocaust survivor speakers, who founded this event in 1980 and who<br />
continue to inspire audiences with their dedication to Holocaust education in hope <strong>of</strong> building<br />
a better future.<br />
We are privileged to benefit from the dedicated leadership <strong>of</strong> our pr<strong>of</strong>essional and advisory colleagues.<br />
UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto is our sustaining supporter, enabling us to bring programming<br />
throughout the year to the community and beyond. Neuberger HEW 2016 <strong>of</strong>fers you an outstanding<br />
selection <strong>of</strong> compelling, timely programs at venues across our city and region. Please join us for this<br />
very important and meaningful week.<br />
Dori Ekstein, Lily Kim, Lisa Richman<br />
2016 HEW Co-Chairs
Donors and Sponsors<br />
We gratefully acknowledge the contributions <strong>of</strong> our donors and sponsors whose support<br />
ensures that Neuberger HEW can present more than 100 outstanding free educational programs<br />
to thousands <strong>of</strong> community members in cultural, educational, spiritual and community<br />
centres throughout the GTA and surrounding region.<br />
PRESENTING SPONSORS<br />
<strong>The</strong> Elizabeth & Tony Comper Foundation<br />
Lead Sponsors<br />
Malka & Harry Rosenbaum<br />
media sponsors<br />
PUBLICATION SPONSOR Opening Night Sponsors Closing Night Sponsors<br />
Judy & Larry Tanenbaum<br />
and Family<br />
Myra & Joel York<br />
honey & barry sherman<br />
Consular Sponsors<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong><br />
Foreign Affairs<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hungary<br />
Consulate General<br />
<strong>of</strong> the united states<br />
Toronto, Canada<br />
Student Symposium Sponsors<br />
May & Fred Karp and Family<br />
Highlight Event Sponsors<br />
Fran & Ed Sonshine<br />
Scholar-in-Residence Sponsor<br />
Cohen Family Charitable Trust
Donors and Sponsors<br />
We gratefully acknowledge the<br />
following sponsors who made their<br />
generous contributions in support<br />
<strong>of</strong> the 2016 Neuberger Holocaust<br />
Education Week in honour or in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> loved ones. Sponsors<br />
who made donations in support <strong>of</strong><br />
specific programs have tribute<br />
wording listed at the individual<br />
program.<br />
Sylvia and Edward Fisch in honour<br />
<strong>of</strong> our children and grandchildren:<br />
Sherri, Darryl, Michelle, Randall,<br />
Adam, Marla, Zackary, Rachel, Aaron<br />
and Sidra.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sam & Gitta Ganz Family<br />
Foundation in loving memory <strong>of</strong><br />
Sam Ganz.<br />
Noah, Jessica & Daniel Geist in<br />
loving memory <strong>of</strong> their grandparents,<br />
Anna & David Geist, who survived<br />
the Holocaust to begin a new life in<br />
Canada.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Glick & Glicksman Families in<br />
loving memory <strong>of</strong> Max & Guta<br />
Glicksman and Rose & Morris Glick.<br />
Sharon and Norman Gottlieb in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> Josef & Pauline Krystal.<br />
Lucille and David Griff in honour<br />
<strong>of</strong> Allan Weiss.<br />
Seymour Hershenfeld and Susan<br />
Weltman in honour <strong>of</strong> Edzia Weltman,<br />
a Holocaust survivor; in memory <strong>of</strong><br />
Leon Weltman, a Holocaust survivor;<br />
and in memory <strong>of</strong> Sam & Freda<br />
Hershenfeld.<br />
Edna and David Magder in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> her grandmother, Reisl Chana<br />
Brodi, and grandfather, Marc<br />
Weissman, who were murdered in<br />
the Holocaust.<br />
Rapoport and Rosenthal families<br />
in honour <strong>of</strong> Mania Rapoport and in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> Jack Rapoport, both<br />
Holocaust survivors.<br />
Aida and Avie Seetner in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> Anna-Lea Katz and Hyman Katz.<br />
Frieda and Leslie Sherman in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> Sam & Ann Salcman.<br />
Carole and Jay Sterling in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ralph F. Dankner.<br />
Martha Sud and sons Avrom,<br />
Howard, Elliott and Warren Sud<br />
in memory <strong>of</strong> beloved husband<br />
and father, David Sud.<br />
Reesa and Avrom Sud in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> David Sud who perished in<br />
the Holocaust and in memory <strong>of</strong><br />
Louis Hotz.<br />
Celine Szoges in memory <strong>of</strong> her<br />
grandparents, Johan Spitznal &<br />
Elizabeth Schwartz.<br />
Nancy and Philip Turk in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> the 6 million.<br />
Rosie Uster, Phyllis Gould and Sandra<br />
Srebrolow in honour <strong>of</strong> our loving<br />
parents, Helen & Mayer Fogel.<br />
Glenda and Alan Wainer in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> Leisor & Ann Wainer and David &<br />
Diane Tessler.<br />
Keynote Event Sponsors<br />
Tammy & Jerry Balitsky<br />
<strong>The</strong> Brown and Lindenberg Families<br />
Gail & Stanley Debow<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sam & Gitta Ganz<br />
Family Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Glick & Glicksman Families<br />
<strong>The</strong> Greenbaum Family<br />
Dorothy & Pinchas Gutter<br />
Robin & Eran Hayeems<br />
Donna & Richard Holbrook<br />
Joy Kaufman, Eric, Lindsay<br />
and Loren Cohen<br />
Janice & Howard Langer<br />
Naomi Rifkind Mansell<br />
& David Mansell<br />
Eleanor & Martin Maxwell with<br />
Scotia Bank, Bathurst/Sheppard<br />
Branch<br />
Joyce & Aaron Rifkind<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gerald Schwartz & Heather<br />
Reisman Foundation<br />
Rhonda Silverstone & Nathan<br />
Rapoport<br />
Sally & Mark Zigler<br />
Survivor Testimony Sponsors<br />
Anonymous<br />
Helena & Jeffrey Axler, Feiga Glazer,<br />
Gerry Glazer & Lilliane Perez-Glazer<br />
Cansew Inc.<br />
Circle <strong>of</strong> Care<br />
DH Gales Family Charitable<br />
Foundation <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
Marina & Jon Geist<br />
Ernest & Barbara Goldenberg<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
Liddy Beck & Steven Gottesman<br />
and Rina & Irving Gottesman<br />
Stephen Greenberg<br />
Roslyn & Ralph Halbert<br />
Edna & David Magder<br />
Maybird Investments Ltd.<br />
Julia & Henry Koschitzky<br />
Leb<strong>of</strong>f Family Charitable Foundation<br />
Bonnie & Larry Moncik<br />
and Eleanor & George Getzler<br />
Yigal Rifkind<br />
Carole & Jay Sterling<br />
Helen Stollar<br />
Reesa & Avrom Sud<br />
Nancy & Philip Turk<br />
Jeff and Annalee Wagman,<br />
Echelon Wealth Partners<br />
Glenda & Alan Wainer<br />
Wendy & Richard Wengle<br />
Ernie Weiss Memorial Fund<br />
“In the Schools” Sponsors<br />
Pamela & Paul Austin<br />
Deborah Berlach & Ron Csillag<br />
Erika Biro<br />
<strong>The</strong> Abraham Bleeman Foundation<br />
Jack Chisvin<br />
Anita Ekstein and Family<br />
Shelley & Steven Ekstein<br />
and Nili & Paul Ekstein<br />
Dori & Ari Ekstein<br />
Sylvia & Edward Fisch<br />
<strong>The</strong> Frankel Family Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lillian and Norman Glowinsky<br />
Family Foundation<br />
GRA Charitable Trust<br />
Lucille & David Griff<br />
Sheri Griffiths, BMO Bank <strong>of</strong> Montreal<br />
Commercial Banking<br />
Susan Weltman & Seymour<br />
Hershenfeld<br />
Jewish War Veterans <strong>of</strong> Canada<br />
Lily & Daniel Kim<br />
Perri-Anne & Charles Magerman<br />
Ellen & Shawn Marr<br />
Crowe Soberman LLP<br />
Danny Pivnick<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rash Family<br />
Doris & Rammy Rochman<br />
Lorraine & Alan Sandler<br />
Judy & Les Scheininger<br />
Anne & Jeff Schwartz<br />
Aida & Avron Seetner<br />
Mary Seldon & Family<br />
Stacey Shein & Mayer Pearl<br />
Frieda & Leslie Sherman<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nathan & Lily Silver<br />
Family Foundation<br />
Guido Smit<br />
Martha Sud<br />
Celine Szoges<br />
Van Rijk Jewellers Inc.<br />
Nita Wexler & Hartley Hershenhorn<br />
“2G” Symposium Sponsors<br />
Lead Sponsors<br />
Canadian Jewish Holocaust<br />
Survivors and Descendants<br />
Marilyn & Stephen Sinclair<br />
Speaker Sponsors<br />
Ruth Ekstein & Alan<br />
Lechem, Lillian & Rick Ekstein,<br />
Stella & Peter Ekstein<br />
Glied-Goldstein Family<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gottdenker Family Trust<br />
Larry & Frieda Torkin<br />
and Family<br />
Rochelle Reichert<br />
& Henry Wolfond<br />
Workshop Sponsors<br />
Tammy & Jerry Balitsky<br />
<strong>The</strong> Blankenstein<br />
Family Foundation<br />
Marlene Brickman<br />
Edell Family Foundation<br />
Marika & Bill Glied<br />
Susan & Jack Kahn<br />
Felicia & David Posluns,<br />
Barry & Nelly Zagdanski,<br />
Ian & Sara Zagdanski<br />
Lisa Richman<br />
& Steven Kelman<br />
Supporters<br />
Hilda & Jerry Cohen<br />
Ari & Dori Ekstein & Family<br />
Esther & Albert Michaels<br />
Faye Minuk<br />
Sarah & Morris Perlis<br />
Annette Sacks<br />
Hinda & Alan Silber<br />
Charlotte & Ken Tessis<br />
with Gail & Aubrey Appel<br />
Dorothy Tessis and Family<br />
Ulmer Charitable Foundation
Letters<br />
It is with great solemnity that I join everyone<br />
in commemorating the Holocaust<br />
during Holocaust Education Week.<br />
This week allows us the opportunity to<br />
deepen our understanding <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust,<br />
a tragic action <strong>of</strong> hate and bigotry.<br />
We stand together in remembrance for<br />
the millions <strong>of</strong> Jews and countless others<br />
who were murdered during the Holocaust<br />
and honour those who survived the Nazi<br />
atrocities.<br />
As we reflect on the painful lessons <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Holocaust, we recognize that our deeper<br />
knowledge <strong>of</strong> the event strengthens our<br />
commitment to never stand silently in the<br />
face <strong>of</strong> violence or hate in any form. It is<br />
important that we honour the memories<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust victims by educating<br />
successive generations and ensuring that<br />
we continue to defend the rights <strong>of</strong> our<br />
fellow humans.<br />
Thank you to the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger<br />
Holocaust Education Centre for<br />
organizing this important initiative. Please<br />
accept my best wishes for a productive and<br />
illuminating Holocaust Education Week.<br />
Justin Trudeau<br />
Prime Minister<br />
Ottawa<br />
2016<br />
On behalf <strong>of</strong> the Government <strong>of</strong> Ontario,<br />
I am honoured to extend warm wishes<br />
to everyone marking Holocaust Education<br />
Week.<br />
This year’s theme—<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong><br />
—highlights the importance <strong>of</strong> preserving<br />
Holocaust testimony, documentation<br />
and interpretation for future generations.<br />
History is a great teacher, for those who<br />
have the commitment and openness to<br />
learn from the past. In the words <strong>of</strong> Winston<br />
Churchill: “<strong>The</strong> longer you can look back,<br />
the farther you can look forward.” I am<br />
grateful to the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger<br />
Holocaust Education Centre for its dedication<br />
to promoting knowledge and understanding<br />
about the Holocaust through its<br />
museum and programs such as Holocaust<br />
Education Week.<br />
Only by studying and learning from one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the darkest moments in human history,<br />
can we learn to be vigilant against all forms<br />
<strong>of</strong> hatred and intolerance — and to cultivate<br />
mutual respect and understanding<br />
in our institutions and interactions.<br />
Please accept my best wishes for a meaningful<br />
Holocaust Education Week.<br />
Kathleen Wynne<br />
Premier<br />
I would like to welcome everyone attending<br />
Holocaust Education Week hosted by<br />
the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust<br />
Education Centre <strong>of</strong> UJA Federation <strong>of</strong><br />
Greater Toronto.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2016 theme <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education<br />
Week is <strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>. During<br />
Holocaust Education Week, people will<br />
gain a broader understanding <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust<br />
by engaging in cultural and literary<br />
analysis and through inquiry-based learning<br />
where a new generation will be able<br />
to hear firsthand accounts from Holocaust<br />
survivors.<br />
<strong>The</strong> anniversary <strong>of</strong> Kristallnacht, the Night<br />
<strong>of</strong> Broken Glass, will also be commemorated<br />
during Holocaust Education Week.<br />
On behalf <strong>of</strong> Toronto City Council, I thank<br />
all those involved in organizing this<br />
event. Please accept my best wishes for<br />
continued success.<br />
Yours,<br />
Mayor John Tory<br />
City <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
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Letters<br />
On behalf <strong>of</strong> UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto, we are honoured<br />
to welcome you to the 36th Annual Holocaust Education Week,<br />
the signature annual program <strong>of</strong> UJA’s Neuberger Holocaust<br />
Education Centre. Attracting more than 35,000 diverse individuals<br />
from across the GTA, Holocaust Education Week is a multifaceted<br />
event recognized worldwide for excellence. It builds upon<br />
the mission <strong>of</strong> its founders in teaching the history and legacy <strong>of</strong><br />
the Shoah to new generations in new and engaging ways. We are<br />
proud to present a program with such an incredible range <strong>of</strong><br />
community partners and participants.<br />
This year’s program, on the theme <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>, opens<br />
up a wide discussion on how the Shoah will be remembered,<br />
studied, examined and honoured in the years to come. This is an<br />
incredibly valuable topic given our commitment to supporting<br />
the next generation on their Jewish journeys. It allows us to<br />
deeply consider and reflect on our dedication to providing new<br />
generations with the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts from<br />
those who survived the Shoah. This year’s event features more<br />
than 100 programs, including 50 programs featuring survivor<br />
speakers. UJA Federation is proud to support Holocaust Education<br />
Week and participate in it. We invite you and your families to<br />
join us.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Morris Perlis<br />
Chair <strong>of</strong> the Board<br />
Adam Minsky<br />
President & CEO<br />
UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto<br />
Since its founding by the survivor community in 1985, the Sarah<br />
and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre has had the<br />
privilege <strong>of</strong> providing thousands <strong>of</strong> students with the opportunity<br />
to learn first-hand about the experiences <strong>of</strong> survivors. And, at the<br />
Neuberger, we are incredibly thankful for the survivors’ courage<br />
and dedication to sharing their stories. Providing these opportunities<br />
has remained at the core <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> our work. As a result, the<br />
Neuberger is committed to thinking deeply about the future<br />
<strong>of</strong> memory and to working with educators and institutions from<br />
around the globe to consider and strategize new and innovative<br />
approaches. <strong>The</strong> role <strong>of</strong> the Neuberger, community partners and<br />
sponsors in sustaining Holocaust Education Week becomes<br />
even more important as we move further away from the Shoah.<br />
We are grateful for our sustaining partner, UJA Federation <strong>of</strong><br />
Greater Toronto, and for the generosity <strong>of</strong> the Elizabeth and Tony<br />
Comper Foundation, Malka and Harry Rosenbaum, and the<br />
Azrieli Foundation. We are also deeply appreciative <strong>of</strong> our partnership<br />
with the Azrieli Foundation who generously provide<br />
survivor memoirs free <strong>of</strong> charge to program participants.<br />
Special recognition goes to HEW co-chairs Dori Ekstein, Lily Kim,<br />
and Lisa Richman. We are privileged to benefit from the commitment<br />
<strong>of</strong> our pr<strong>of</strong>essional and advisory colleagues, especially<br />
Marilyn Sinclair, Immediate Past Chair. I also want to recognize<br />
the tirelessly committed Neuberger staff, Carson Phillips, Rachel<br />
Libman, Mary Siklos, Michelle Fishman, Kit MacManus, Iris<br />
Glesinger, Anna Skorupsky, and Austrian intern Lorenz Glettler.<br />
I also want to welcome Dara Solomon, our interim director, who<br />
has just joined this wonderful team. I look forward to seeing you<br />
at HEW 2016.<br />
Shael Rosenbaum<br />
Chair, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger<br />
Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation<br />
Neuberger Holocaust Education Week 5
at a Glance<br />
<strong>The</strong> Neuberger HEC education<br />
and program staff, along<br />
with experts and advisors in the<br />
field, curated this selection <strong>of</strong><br />
programs for the 2016 Holocaust<br />
Education Week.<br />
This publication is co-sponsored<br />
by Judy and Larry Tanenbaum<br />
and family in memory <strong>of</strong> Fanny<br />
& Jacob Silberman, their son<br />
Julius, and Fanny’s mother<br />
Zysla Krongold—with pr<strong>of</strong>ound<br />
respect and gratitude for the<br />
lessons they taught and the<br />
courageous optimism with which<br />
they taught them.<br />
PRE-HEW PROGRAM<br />
Tuesday<br />
1 <strong>November</strong><br />
9:00 AM–4:00 PM<br />
WORKSHOP<br />
Educator Development<br />
Workshop on the Holocaust<br />
Facilitated by Kelly Watson<br />
and Michelle Fishman<br />
Page 14<br />
Community program listings<br />
are included in date order<br />
beginning on page 42.<br />
“2G” Symposium | P18<br />
Wednesday<br />
2 <strong>November</strong><br />
FEATURED EXHIBIT<br />
Eternal Light<br />
On view through <strong>November</strong> 30<br />
Amy Friend<br />
Page 15<br />
7:30 PM<br />
OPENING NIGHT<br />
Between Tragedy and Farce:<br />
Normalizing Nazism on the<br />
Internet<br />
Featuring Gavriel D. Rosenfeld<br />
in conversation with Ron Levi<br />
Page 8<br />
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR<br />
TESTIMONY PROGRAMS<br />
2–14 <strong>November</strong><br />
In Conversation with<br />
Holocaust Survivors<br />
In libraries and schools<br />
across the GTA<br />
Neuberger HEW 2016 includes<br />
a wide selection <strong>of</strong> library,<br />
school and survivor testimony<br />
programs, listed on pages 32–41.<br />
Thursday<br />
3 <strong>November</strong><br />
7:30 PM<br />
LITERARY<br />
<strong>The</strong> Power <strong>of</strong> Memoir and<br />
Storytelling: How do we<br />
Teach Others about the Pain<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Past?<br />
Featuring authors Nate Leipciger<br />
and <strong>The</strong>odore Fontaine<br />
Page 16<br />
Friday<br />
4 <strong>November</strong><br />
12:00 PM<br />
LUNCH ‘N LEARN<br />
<strong>The</strong> Swiss Banks Holocaust<br />
Litigation and Settlement:<br />
What Can we Learn from the<br />
Proposals to Allocate Residual<br />
Funds?<br />
Featuring Ron Levi<br />
Page 17<br />
Cover Image: In an HEW-commissioned series, visual artist Amy Friend<br />
explored the early 20th century collections <strong>of</strong> the Ontario Jewish<br />
Archives. <strong>The</strong> archivists believe that this photograph, along with several<br />
others included in the Eternal Light exhibit, comes from Vilnius,<br />
Lithuania, circa 1920s. For more information see pages 15, 26–31.<br />
For program changes visit:<br />
holocausteducationweek.com<br />
or call 416–631–5689.<br />
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at a Glance<br />
Saturday<br />
5 <strong>November</strong><br />
Monday<br />
7 <strong>November</strong><br />
8:00 PM<br />
LITERARY<br />
My Grandfather Would<br />
Have Shot Me: A Black Woman<br />
Discovers Her Family’s<br />
Nazi Past<br />
Featuring Jennifer Teege<br />
Page 17<br />
Sunday<br />
6 <strong>November</strong><br />
9:30AM–3:30 PM<br />
SYMPOSIUM<br />
Dialogue for Descendants:<br />
“Second Generation” (2G)<br />
Symposium for Children <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust Survivors<br />
Featuring workshops and<br />
keynotes from Paula Draper<br />
and Paula David<br />
Page 18<br />
11:00 AM<br />
SYMPOSIUM<br />
Legacy Symposium<br />
for Young Pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
Featuring workshops and<br />
keynote from Pinchas Gutter<br />
and Stephen Smith<br />
Page 19<br />
7:30 PM<br />
CONCERT<br />
Music <strong>of</strong> Another World—<br />
Szymon Laks: 1901–1983<br />
Featuring Simon Wynberg<br />
and the ARC Ensemble<br />
Page 20<br />
SON OF SAUL | P22<br />
10:00 AM–4:00 PM<br />
WORKSHOPS<br />
Personal Access<br />
to the ITS Archive<br />
With Diane Afoumado<br />
Page 21<br />
12:00 PM<br />
LUNCH ‘N LEARN<br />
Addressing Austria’s Past:<br />
Responsibility, Remembrance<br />
and Restitution<br />
Featuring Hannah Lessing<br />
Page 21<br />
4:00 PM<br />
PANEL<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong><br />
Panelists: Karen Jungblut,<br />
Pinchas Gutter, Alice<br />
Herscovitch, Jody Spiegel;<br />
moderated by Anna Shternshis<br />
Page 22<br />
7:30 PM<br />
FILM<br />
Son <strong>of</strong> Saul<br />
With Laszlo Rajk<br />
Page 22<br />
Tuesday<br />
8 <strong>November</strong><br />
9:30 AM<br />
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM<br />
Exploring the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust Education through<br />
Survivor Testimony: 36th<br />
Annual Student Symposium<br />
on the Holocaust<br />
With Michael Gray, Karen<br />
Jungblut, Kia Hays, and<br />
Pinchas Gutter<br />
Page 23<br />
4:00 PM<br />
PANEL<br />
History and Imagination:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Place <strong>of</strong> Literature in<br />
Holocaust Remembrance<br />
Moderated by Sara Horowitz<br />
Page 24<br />
7:00 PM<br />
FILM<br />
<strong>Memory</strong> After Belsen<br />
With Edward Sonshine<br />
and Henri Lustiger Thaler<br />
Page 24<br />
Memoir & Storytelling | P16<br />
Wednesday<br />
9 <strong>November</strong><br />
3:00 PM<br />
PANEL<br />
Community Safety,<br />
Insecurity, and Radicalization:<br />
Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong> and<br />
Education in the 21st Century<br />
Chaired by Ron Levi<br />
Page 24<br />
8:00 PM<br />
CLOSING NIGHT<br />
Bringing the Rimonim Home:<br />
A Personal Restitution Journey<br />
Featuring Hannah Lessing<br />
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POST-HEW PROGRAM<br />
Thursday<br />
10 <strong>November</strong><br />
1:00 PM<br />
LUNCH ‘N LEARN<br />
Exploring the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust Education in a<br />
Contemporary Setting<br />
With Michael Gray<br />
Page 25<br />
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opening night<br />
Between Tragedy and Farce:<br />
Normalizing Nazism on the Internet<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong>, 7:30 PM<br />
In an illustrated lecture, Gavriel Rosenfeld will address the<br />
Holocaust Education Week theme <strong>of</strong> “<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>”<br />
by explaining how the history <strong>of</strong> the Third Reich is being<br />
“normalized” in contemporary culture. Drawing on his recent<br />
book, Hi Hitler!, Rosenfeld will show how the Nazi legacy is<br />
being portrayed on the Internet. He will explain how the World<br />
Wide Web presents both unprecedented opportunities and<br />
dangers for memory. While the web <strong>of</strong>fers up new possibilities<br />
for educating people about the Nazi legacy, it simultaneously<br />
promotes its trivialization.<br />
Following the talk, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ron Levi, HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence, will moderate a<br />
compelling and timely discussion with Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Rosenfeld about the inflated place <strong>of</strong> Hitler,<br />
Nazism, and fascism in present-day western political discourse. Opening night <strong>of</strong> HEW will<br />
launch the week <strong>of</strong> programs with a thoughtful exploration <strong>of</strong> our understanding <strong>of</strong> current<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> the perpetrators <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust and its consequences.<br />
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History and Director <strong>of</strong> the Program in Judaic Studies at<br />
Fairfield University. He is the author <strong>of</strong> Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in<br />
Contemporary Culture (2015), Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the <strong>Memory</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust (2011), <strong>The</strong> World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the <strong>Memory</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Nazism (2005), Munich and <strong>Memory</strong>: Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Third Reich (2000), and the forthcoming edited collection, What Ifs <strong>of</strong> Jewish History:<br />
From Abraham to Zionism (2016). He is a frequent contributor to the Forward<br />
newspaper and edits the blog, <strong>The</strong> Counterfactual History Review.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue<br />
100 Elder Street | Toronto<br />
416–633–3838<br />
Hipster Hitler is a comic<br />
that satirizes both hipster<br />
culture and the exploits<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Third Reich using<br />
a combination <strong>of</strong> puns,<br />
parody, dark humor,<br />
anachronisms, and visual<br />
gags. In this image, Hitler<br />
is illustrated as a bespectacled,<br />
skinny-jeans-wearing<br />
urbanite. His t-shirt is<br />
a play on the name <strong>of</strong> a<br />
popular indie-rock band,<br />
Arcade Fire.<br />
Image courtesy <strong>of</strong> HipsterHitler.com.<br />
Opening night <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education Week<br />
is generously co-sponsored by Myra & Joel<br />
York and family, in loving memory <strong>of</strong> Sarah<br />
and Chaim Neuberger.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2016 HEW Scholar-in-Residence is<br />
generously sponsored by the Cohen Family<br />
Charitable Trust.<br />
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closing night<br />
Bringing the Rimonim Home:<br />
A Personal Restitution Journey<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong>, 8:00 PM<br />
In honour <strong>of</strong> closing night <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education Week, Austrian<br />
National Fund director Hannah Lessing shares the compelling<br />
account <strong>of</strong> an unexpected and personal act <strong>of</strong> restitution. More<br />
than 75 years after Kristallnacht, Lessing discovered that a pair <strong>of</strong><br />
silver Torah finials (rimonim) originally owned by her family was<br />
included in an Israeli auction house catalogue. Looted by the Nazis<br />
from a Vienna synagogue during the massive pogroms that took<br />
place on <strong>November</strong> 9–10, 1938, the finials appeared to have been<br />
purchased in good faith as part <strong>of</strong> a Judaica collection. Lessing will<br />
share the story <strong>of</strong> the discovery <strong>of</strong> the Judaica and her journey to<br />
bring them home to her 92-year-old father, photographer Erich<br />
Lessing, the sole survivor <strong>of</strong> his family. On the 78th anniversary<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Kristallnacht pogrom, this program will explore the<br />
ongoing relevance <strong>of</strong> restitution on a personal, national and<br />
global scale, and the lingering impact <strong>of</strong> the events <strong>of</strong><br />
Kristallnacht generations later.<br />
Hannah Lessing is Secretary General <strong>of</strong> the National Fund <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Austria and<br />
the General Settlement Fund for Victims <strong>of</strong> National Socialism, as well as the Fund for the<br />
Restoration <strong>of</strong> the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria. <strong>The</strong> National Fund <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Austria<br />
for Victims <strong>of</strong> National Socialism awards a symbolic payment to persons <strong>of</strong> Austrian origin<br />
who were persecuted by the National Socialist Regime during the Second World War.<br />
She is responsible for the administrative and organizational management <strong>of</strong> the three<br />
funds, which carry out their work in remembrance <strong>of</strong> the victims. She is co-head <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Austrian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)<br />
and a highly sought after international speaker. Last year, she curated an exhibition<br />
<strong>of</strong> her father’s photography at the Jewish Museum Vienna.<br />
Closing Night <strong>of</strong> HEW will also include a candle-lighting ceremony commemorating<br />
the 78th anniversary <strong>of</strong> Kristallnacht.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 8:00 PM<br />
Temple Sinai<br />
210 Wilson Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–487–4161<br />
Closing Night <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education Week is<br />
generously co-sponsored by Apotex Foundation,<br />
Honey & Barry Sherman; by Eleanor & Martin<br />
Maxwell, in memory <strong>of</strong> his sisters, Josephine<br />
and Erna Meisels, who died in the Holocaust;<br />
and by Scotiabank Bathurst & Sheppard Branch.<br />
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scholar-in-residence<br />
“Holocaust memory<br />
is being relied on<br />
to counter antisemitism,<br />
racism, and struggles<br />
for community safety<br />
in our present”<br />
“Does the world know what happened to us?”, survivors <strong>of</strong><br />
Buchenwald are recalled asking, on the day US troops entered the<br />
camp in April 1945 (Fox 2013). How all the more unspeakable,<br />
then, that among the dead <strong>of</strong> Buchenwald was Maurice Halbwachs,<br />
the French sociologist whose signal contribution was giving life<br />
to the concept <strong>of</strong> “collective memory,” by which he meant the<br />
social process <strong>of</strong> witnessing, remembering, and commemorating<br />
the past (Halbwachs 1950). One <strong>of</strong> Halbwachs’s core ideas is that<br />
collective memory is something we must engage in actively, to<br />
build connections that bridge the past with the present.<br />
This year’s Holocaust Education Week focuses on “the future <strong>of</strong><br />
memory.” This is a particularly poignant year to be asking this<br />
question, as we collectively reel from the death <strong>of</strong> Elie Wiesel.<br />
Wiesel, himself a survivor <strong>of</strong> Buchenwald, represented the moral<br />
imperative <strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory: “I have tried to keep memory<br />
alive,” Wiesel explained in his Nobel Acceptance Speech, “[b]ecause<br />
if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices” (Wiesel 1986).<br />
How, we are now being asked, will the Holocaust be remembered<br />
in the future? How will the Holocaust be recalled in popular<br />
culture, in artistic practice, in memorials, or in academic research?<br />
And, I would add—following Halbwachs—how is Holocaust memory<br />
reflected and made collective in our present?<br />
Take the recent genocide trial, in France, <strong>of</strong> a Rwandan national<br />
Pascal Simbikangwa, who had been captain <strong>of</strong> the Presidential<br />
Guard in Rwanda. Simbikangwa was convicted in 2014 by the<br />
cour d’assises in Paris for his complicity in the Rwandan genocide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> very fact <strong>of</strong> this trial stems from a legal path that includes<br />
the Eichmann trial in the District Court <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem. Yet the<br />
Holocaust also figures more expressly: lawyer David Reingewirtz’s<br />
court pleadings that opened by discussing Joseph Kessel, a founding<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the International League against Racism and<br />
Anti-Semitism, who reported for France Soir during the Nuremberg<br />
Trial; and most vividly, the presence in the trial audience <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust survivors such as the now deceased Léon Zyguel (who<br />
had earlier testified in the Papon trial about the camps), representatives<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Sons and Daughters <strong>of</strong> Jewish Deportees from<br />
France, and representatives <strong>of</strong> the association Buchenwald, all <strong>of</strong><br />
whom attended this trial at the Boulevard du Palais in solidarity<br />
for the victims <strong>of</strong> the Rwandan genocide. <strong>The</strong> point here is that<br />
the memory <strong>of</strong> the Shoah was vivid in the proceedings, whether<br />
through legal precedent, the oral pleadings, or through individuals<br />
in their attendance at trial.<br />
Or take the Swiss Bank Holocaust-era litigation, a class action<br />
lawsuit that began in the US Federal Courts in 1996. Much <strong>of</strong><br />
this famous litigation turned on locating owners and claims to<br />
redress. But there was another dimension to this litigation that<br />
gained less attention: submissions from civil society organizations<br />
worldwide to a “residual fund” available from the litigation. <strong>The</strong><br />
Court decided to rely on these funds for the neediest <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
survivors: yet what is also crucial about these submissions is<br />
that they provide insight into another dimension <strong>of</strong> the future <strong>of</strong><br />
memory. Since these submissions were not based on the historical<br />
record <strong>of</strong> ownership, they proposed uses <strong>of</strong> these funds for projects—for<br />
survivors, for their heirs, for ravaged communities, and<br />
for memorial and educational opportunities. As a result, these<br />
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Scholar-In-Residence<br />
Programming<br />
Opening Night | Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong><br />
Between Tragedy and Farce: Normalizing Nazism on the Internet<br />
See p. 8 for more information.<br />
proposals <strong>of</strong>fer insight into a future <strong>of</strong> memory, in which new<br />
projects were motivated by what philosopher Jeremy Waldron<br />
(1992) calls our “moral understanding <strong>of</strong> the past.” <strong>The</strong> point here<br />
is that this legal conversation relied on a moral understanding <strong>of</strong><br />
the past to propose new projects that could honour Holocaust<br />
memory, and that such engagement is also part <strong>of</strong> the process <strong>of</strong><br />
collective memory in the present.<br />
As we look elsewhere, other modes <strong>of</strong> collective memory abound.<br />
Take the legal growth <strong>of</strong> international courts to respond to genocide,<br />
war crimes, and crimes against humanity. On 21 <strong>November</strong> 1945,<br />
the opening <strong>of</strong> the Nuremberg Trial was reported on the front<br />
page <strong>of</strong> the New York Times, above the fold: but in a thin column<br />
that was largely outflanked by other stories (McLaughlin 1945).<br />
In contrast, decades later the Chief Prosecutor <strong>of</strong> the International<br />
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia—reflected that “I<br />
think about Nuremberg every day! <strong>The</strong> images constantly come<br />
to mind” (Paris 2001). Of course new courts, such as the International<br />
Criminal Court, operate in different situations and political<br />
environments, and there isn’t a straight line that connects them<br />
all. Yet all trace their lineage to the Nuremberg Trial.<br />
We also see Holocaust programming working to address new<br />
struggles <strong>of</strong> community safety and antisemitism in Europe. When<br />
Jacques Fredj, who is the director <strong>of</strong> the mémorial de la Shoah in<br />
France, indicates in the days following the attacks on Charlie<br />
Hebdo and the HyperCacher that Shoah education is crucial for<br />
combatting antisemitism and racism—this is precisely collective<br />
memory at work (Fredj 2015). <strong>The</strong> continued and present importance<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory was also evident in the First Annual<br />
Colloquium on Fundamental Rights <strong>of</strong> the European Commission<br />
last year, including among its action items Holocaust education<br />
and criminalizing Holocaust denial as hate speech. <strong>The</strong> point here<br />
is that Holocaust memory is being relied on to counter antisemitism,<br />
racism, and struggles for community safety in our present.<br />
I would add something else. My examples above tend to focus<br />
on cases from law and from community safety. <strong>The</strong>re is a reason<br />
for this: I am honoured to be a scholar in residence <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
Lunch ‘N Learn | Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Swiss Banks Holocaust Litigation and Settlement:<br />
What Can we Learn from the Proposals to Allocate Residual Funds?<br />
See p. 17 for more information.<br />
Panel Discussion | Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong><br />
Community Safety, Insecurity, and Radicalization:<br />
Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong> and Education in the 21st Century<br />
See p. 24 for more information.<br />
HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence is generously sponsored<br />
by the Cohen Family Charitable Trust.<br />
Education Week who is trained in law and sociology. Indeed, my<br />
impression is that there is ever greater attention to the Holocaust<br />
and to Holocaust memory across academic disciplines. Law is,<br />
to be sure, one institution through which collective memory is<br />
transmitted, including through trials, but it is not the only one.<br />
This year’s program engages the future <strong>of</strong> memory in the overwhelming<br />
absence <strong>of</strong> Elie Wiesel. This is pr<strong>of</strong>oundly disorienting.<br />
Wiesel’s voice has been at the core <strong>of</strong> our collective memory <strong>of</strong><br />
the Holocaust, and his work provides us with the intellectual and<br />
moral resources to continue the social process <strong>of</strong> remembering.<br />
Such memory is, in Wiesel’s (2009) terms, a “sacred duty <strong>of</strong> all<br />
people <strong>of</strong> good will.”<br />
Collective memory, Wiesel insists, is our moral imperative. In<br />
commemorating the life <strong>of</strong> Maurice Halbwachs, the French sociologist<br />
Pierre Bourdieu (1987) insisted that our duty is to continuously<br />
take up the work <strong>of</strong> collective memory that engaged him<br />
and remember the violence that ended it. So I point you to the<br />
pages that follow as you consider how attention to Holocaust<br />
memory—testimony and our collective memory—is developed<br />
throughout the program, engages us, and shapes our present.<br />
Neuberger HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ron Levi holds the George Ignatieff Chair<br />
<strong>of</strong> Peace and Conflict Studies at the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Toronto, where he serves as Deputy Director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Munk School <strong>of</strong> Global Affairs.<br />
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educator-in-residence<br />
“Can the testimonies <strong>of</strong><br />
survivors really compete<br />
with the ubiquity <strong>of</strong><br />
updates and messages<br />
flooding an individual’s<br />
personal devices?”<br />
In the immediate years after 1945, the systematic murder <strong>of</strong><br />
Europe’s Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during the<br />
Second World War was rarely considered as an entity in its own<br />
right. During the 1950s the genocide was rarely found on the<br />
educational agenda including those in Israel and among Jewish<br />
communities in the USA. Various events proved significant in<br />
framing the Nazi destruction <strong>of</strong> European Jewry as “the Holocaust”<br />
and augmenting it within western consciousness as a historical<br />
phenomenon <strong>of</strong> universal relevance and moral importance. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
events included the trial <strong>of</strong> Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961;<br />
the broadcasting <strong>of</strong> the mini-series Holocaust on NBC in 1978, as<br />
well as the release <strong>of</strong> Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and the opening<br />
<strong>of</strong> the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington<br />
DC, both <strong>of</strong> which took place in 1993. <strong>The</strong> 71 years that have now<br />
elapsed since the liberation <strong>of</strong> the camps by Allied troops have<br />
witnessed an evolutionary journey in how the Holocaust is remembered,<br />
taught and memorialised by students, academics and the<br />
public, within schools, universities, museums and wider society.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no reason to suggest this evolution will not continue<br />
and there is much cause for optimism regarding the future <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust memory. <strong>The</strong> western world has dedicated centres for<br />
the study <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust, a corpus <strong>of</strong> scholarship and literature<br />
now reaching tens <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> titles and ever growing access<br />
to learning opportunities. <strong>The</strong> power and innovation <strong>of</strong> new<br />
technologies are also being harnessed to facilitate greater access<br />
to the records <strong>of</strong> the past. This is particularly true <strong>of</strong> survivor testimonies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> archive <strong>of</strong> the USC Shoah Foundation has around<br />
52,000 testimonies from 57 countries in 33 languages, a collection<br />
that would take over 12 years to watch in its entirety. Particularly<br />
pioneering is the New Dimensions in Testimony, which enables<br />
Holocaust survivors to appear as a 3D hologram-like digital projection<br />
and interact with students <strong>of</strong> the future [testimony collection<br />
access coming soon to the Neuberger’s Ekstein Holocaust<br />
Resource Library; demo <strong>of</strong> the NDT program also coming soon<br />
to the Neuberger]. Other developments have come through<br />
engaging with young people via social media platforms as well<br />
as applications for mobiles and tablets which enhance visits to<br />
museums and historical sites.<br />
Yet as we enter a post-survivor era, Holocaust memory faces<br />
new challenges. Will generations that are increasingly removed<br />
from the events <strong>of</strong> the Second World War be similarly removed<br />
in their levels <strong>of</strong> emotional engagement and interest? Does the<br />
market competition for consumers’ attention crowd out the<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust in a world that looks to the future more<br />
than it remembers the past? Can the testimonies <strong>of</strong> survivors<br />
really compete with the ubiquity <strong>of</strong> updates and messages flooding<br />
an individual’s personal devices?<br />
Thankfully, Holocaust consciousness is deeply engrained within<br />
the popular psyche through poignant memorials, days <strong>of</strong> remembrance<br />
and the commitment <strong>of</strong> regional bodies, national governments<br />
and supranational organisations. Despite the challenges<br />
posed by an ever-evolving society and a post-Holocaust generation,<br />
the survival <strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory is not really in question. More<br />
pressing therefore is the issue <strong>of</strong> what form that memory takes<br />
and how we as a society choose to reflect upon it. My concern is<br />
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Educator-In-Residence<br />
Programming<br />
Young Pr<strong>of</strong>essionals’ Symposium | Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> seventh annual symposium features engaging workshops<br />
that invite participants in their 20s and 30s to explore the future<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory from different perspectives. See p. 19 for<br />
more information.<br />
Student Symposium | Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong><br />
Dr. Gray will address learning about the Holocaust in contemporary<br />
settings as we face a pivotal point in Holocaust education—a future<br />
without survivors. Followed by interactive workshops and a closing<br />
keynote. See p. 23 for more information.<br />
Lunch ‘N Learn | Thursday, 10 <strong>November</strong><br />
Exploring the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting.<br />
Dr. Gray will share some <strong>of</strong> his research in this area and illuminate<br />
possible opportunities and challenges for the future. See p. 25 for more<br />
information.<br />
that the popularity <strong>of</strong> the theme as a narrative in literature and<br />
film means that authors and producers might drive popular understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust into an ethereal realm devoid <strong>of</strong> context<br />
or historical meaning. Alongside this is the danger that the<br />
Holocaust becomes simplified, trivialised and essentially reduced<br />
to a series <strong>of</strong> neatly compacted moral lessons which promote a<br />
specific educational or national agenda.<br />
Dealing effectively with these challenges, as well as those <strong>of</strong><br />
engaging a post-survivor generation, means imparting meaning<br />
into the Holocaust which transcends generational difference.<br />
This involves students engaging with individual stories and the<br />
themes that make up our shared human experiences. Grounded<br />
within a specific historical context they must hear tales <strong>of</strong> love<br />
and hatred, narratives <strong>of</strong> fellowship and separation, and accounts<br />
<strong>of</strong> life and death. Rather than see Europe’s Jews as a homogenous<br />
group awaiting inevitable annihilation, Holocaust pedagogy must<br />
expound the complexities and variety <strong>of</strong> Jewish experiences, the<br />
agency and choices that were made by victims, bystanders, collaborators<br />
and perpetrators, as well as the conceptual difficulties<br />
with such terms. Practitioners must discuss the decision-making<br />
processes that led to a policy <strong>of</strong> systematic murder, the catalysing<br />
effect <strong>of</strong> war and how choices must be understood within a unique<br />
matrix <strong>of</strong> political, economic and environmental relationships.<br />
Historians do not have a monopoly on the Holocaust or the future<br />
<strong>of</strong> its memory. <strong>The</strong>ologians, psychologists, writers and musicians<br />
amongst others must all add their own perspectives and interpretations<br />
and the field is substantially richer for their contributions.<br />
Yet these other approaches must not detach the Holocaust from<br />
its context or remove it from its historical specificity.<br />
A study <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust that recognises its complexities and<br />
sophistications and which refuses to ignore them, though they<br />
be difficult to understand, is the only appropriate foundation for<br />
the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory. As a post-survivor generation<br />
takes up the challenge <strong>of</strong> continuing that memory, it inherits a<br />
legacy from the survivor community which is the depth and detail<br />
<strong>of</strong> their historical testimonies. <strong>The</strong>se will inevitably play a key<br />
role in combining the historical with the human and the process<br />
with the personal. Though not present in body, their stories will<br />
no doubt live on and provide an absorbing and unique set <strong>of</strong><br />
insights into what remains one <strong>of</strong> the most macabre, devastating,<br />
and yet compelling chapters <strong>of</strong> human history. <strong>The</strong> form that<br />
Holocaust memory takes in the future is impossible to foretell<br />
and likely to continue to manifest itself in different ways depending<br />
on time and place. Yet to be true to itself and to the individuals<br />
who lived through it or perished during it, the memory <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Holocaust must remain rooted and grounded in a historical understanding<br />
and the past. This is the duty <strong>of</strong> educators and scholars<br />
everywhere.<br />
Neuberger HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence<br />
Dr. Michael Gray is Head <strong>of</strong> Government and<br />
Politics and teacher <strong>of</strong> History at Harrow School<br />
in London.<br />
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curated programs<br />
<strong>The</strong> Neuberger HEC education and program staff,<br />
along with experts and advisors in the field,<br />
curated this selection <strong>of</strong> programs for the 2016<br />
Holocaust Education Week.<br />
Image courtesy <strong>of</strong> the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.<br />
Educator Development Workshop on the Holocaust<br />
In cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Neuberger Holocaust Education<br />
Centre presents a one-day pr<strong>of</strong>essional development event that will provide teachers with resources and<br />
pedagogical approaches to teach about the Holocaust. Led by Kelly Watson, USHMM Regional Education<br />
Corps, and Michelle Fishman, Education Associate at the Neuberger.<br />
<strong>The</strong> workshop is open to middle school, high school, and community college educators. Participants will receive books and resources<br />
from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Breakfast and lunch included. Advance registration required.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Janice & Howard Langer in honour <strong>of</strong> their children and grandchildren.<br />
Tuesday, 1 <strong>November</strong> | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM<br />
Lipa Green Building | Tamari Hall | 4600 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
Free | Registration Required: holocaustcentre.com/Workshops<br />
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curated programs<br />
featured EXHIBIT<br />
Eternal Light<br />
In Jewish tradition, the death <strong>of</strong> a loved one is commemorated by the lighting <strong>of</strong> a yahrzeit candle,<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten with a prayer which begins with a passage from Proverbs, “. . . the lamp <strong>of</strong> the Eternal is the soul<br />
<strong>of</strong> humanity . . .” For most Jews who perished in the Holocaust and so many who died before, there are<br />
no surviving family members to observe these rituals. And so it falls to future generations. For a visual<br />
interpretation <strong>of</strong> the theme <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>, Neuberger HEW commissioned St. Catharines-based<br />
artist Amy Friend. Exploring the notion <strong>of</strong> light, as she has done previously in her Dare Alla Luce series,<br />
Friend used archival photographs <strong>of</strong> European Jewry before the Shoah to create a poignant and eternal<br />
tribute to life, love, and loss.<br />
HEW Featured Visual Artist Amy Friend is Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts at Brock University and a multimedia artist who<br />
exhibits and publishes her work internationally. She has been selected as a top 50 photographer by Critical Mass International<br />
Photography Competition for three years running and a Time Inc. Top Magazine Cover Pick for 2015. Amy Friend is represented<br />
by C3 Arts.<br />
Curated by Mira Goldfarb. Archival images courtesy <strong>of</strong> Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Sally & Mark Zigler in honour <strong>of</strong> their parents, Fanny & Bernard Dov Laufer and Etty & Salo Zigler.<br />
2–30 <strong>November</strong><br />
Monday–Friday 9:00 am–9:00 pm; Saturday–Sunday 9:00 am–7:00 pm<br />
Miles Nadal JCC—<strong>The</strong> Gallery at the J | 750 Spadina Avenue | Toronto | 416–924–6211<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Power <strong>of</strong> Memoir and Storytelling:<br />
How do we Teach Others about the Pain<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Past?<br />
Explore two distinct narratives that examine loss, trauma<br />
and the use <strong>of</strong> memoir in the journey toward healing.<br />
Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger joins former chief <strong>of</strong><br />
the Sagkeeng Ojibway First Nation and Residential School<br />
survivor <strong>The</strong>odore Fontaine to talk about how they<br />
came to write and publish their memoirs. <strong>The</strong>y will speak<br />
about the use <strong>of</strong> storytelling as a way <strong>of</strong> coping with their<br />
experiences, and the transformative power <strong>of</strong> sharing<br />
one’s tragedy.<br />
Nathan Leipciger was born in 1928, in Chorzow, Poland. He survived<br />
the Sosnowiec Ghetto and the camps <strong>of</strong> Auschwitz-Birkenau, Fünfteichen,<br />
Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, Leonberg, Mühldorf am Inn and Waldlager.<br />
Nate and his father were liberated in May 1945 and came to Canada in<br />
1948. Nate’s memoir, <strong>The</strong> Weight <strong>of</strong> Freedom, was recently published<br />
by the Azrieli Foundation. This summer, Nate accompanied PM Justin<br />
Trudeau during his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau; in the fall, Nate visited<br />
Kenora, Ontario, to meet with Elders and Chiefs and to speak to First<br />
Nations high school students.<br />
<strong>The</strong>odore Fontaine is a member and former chief <strong>of</strong> the Sagkeeng<br />
Ojibway First Nation in Manitoba. He attended the Fort Alexander and<br />
Assiniboia Indian Residential Schools from 1948 to 1960. He has worked<br />
for various First Nations government sectors and was an advisor and<br />
executive director <strong>of</strong> the Assembly <strong>of</strong> Manitoba Chiefs. <strong>The</strong>odore wrote<br />
the bestselling memoir Broken Circle: <strong>The</strong> Dark Legacy <strong>of</strong> Indian Residential<br />
Schools, and regularly speaks to numerous audiences on Indian<br />
residential schools. He continues to support other survivors and seek<br />
reconciliation directly with those who were perpetrators <strong>of</strong> his abuse.<br />
Books will be available for purchase and author signing. Auditorium is<br />
fully accessible and ASL interpreters will be present during the program.<br />
Generously sponsored and presented by <strong>The</strong> Azrieli Foundation.<br />
Co-presented by Facing History and Ourselves, Ve’ahavta, and Equity<br />
Studies Program, New College—University <strong>of</strong> Toronto.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
New College | William Doo Auditorium<br />
40 Willcocks Street | Toronto<br />
416–964–7698<br />
Images courtesy <strong>of</strong> the personal collections <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>odore Fontaine and <strong>of</strong> Nate Leipciger<br />
via the Azrieli Foundation. Reproduced with permission.<br />
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Image courtesy <strong>of</strong> Jennifer Teege.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Swiss Banks Holocaust<br />
Litigation and Settlement: What<br />
Can we Learn from the Proposals<br />
to Allocate Residual Funds?<br />
Over the past two decades, we have seen the resurgence<br />
<strong>of</strong> criminal trials for war crimes, genocide, and crimes<br />
against humanity. Yet in addition to this revival <strong>of</strong> the<br />
legal legacy <strong>of</strong> the Nuremberg Trials, civil restitution suits<br />
also emerged in the 1990s as a legal and political tool for<br />
redress after atrocities. <strong>The</strong> most prominent <strong>of</strong> these has<br />
been a class action litigation brought in American courts<br />
against Swiss Banks found to have retained and laundered<br />
looted Holocaust-era assets. <strong>The</strong> eventual financial settlement<br />
was $1.25 billion, and the distribution was complex.<br />
This presentation from HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence<br />
Dr. Ron Levi analyzes the varying allocation proposals that<br />
were submitted during this litigation, and the decision<br />
reached over the allocation <strong>of</strong> any residual funds to the<br />
neediest <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors.<br />
Scholar-in-Residence<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ron Levi holds the George Ignatieff Chair <strong>of</strong> Peace and Conflict<br />
Studies at the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto, where he serves as Deputy Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Munk School <strong>of</strong> Global Affairs, and is an Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
Global Affairs and Sociology. He is a sociologist and legal scholar, whose<br />
research focuses on justice system responses to violence, crime, and<br />
human rights violations. Among his current projects, Pr<strong>of</strong>. Levi is researching<br />
the strategies <strong>of</strong> international criminal courts from the Nuremberg<br />
Trial to the present, the practices <strong>of</strong> UN human rights pr<strong>of</strong>essionals,<br />
the Swiss Banks Holocaust-era litigation, and new strategies in policing<br />
and counter-terrorism. Pr<strong>of</strong>. Levi’s next research project will address<br />
community safety, insecurity, and radicalization in Europe. An awardwinning<br />
teacher, Pr<strong>of</strong>. Levi is a past Fellow <strong>of</strong> the Canadian Institute<br />
for Advanced Research, has launched a Global Justice Lab in the Munk<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Global Affairs, and in 2014 was awarded the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Toronto’s Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize. In 2016,<br />
he was appointed as a Permanent Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Copenhagen’s Centre <strong>of</strong> Excellence for International Courts.<br />
Please RSVP to Nicole Nassri at nnassri@stikeman.com. Space is<br />
extremely limited for this event. Upon registering, you will receive a<br />
confirmation e-mail with the location and final details <strong>of</strong> the event.<br />
If you have not registered for the event ahead <strong>of</strong> time, nor received an<br />
e-mail confirmation, you will unfortunately not be granted access to<br />
the event.<br />
HEW 2016 Scholar-in-Residence is generously sponsored by the<br />
Cohen Family Charitable Trust. Lunch ‘n Learn hosted by Stikeman<br />
Elliott LLP.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 12:00 noon<br />
ADDRESS PROVIDED UPON CONFIRMATION OF REGISTRATION<br />
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black<br />
Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past<br />
At age 38, Jennifer Teege picked up a book at a library in<br />
Hamburg and discovered that her grandfather was Amon Goeth,<br />
the brutal Nazi commandant <strong>of</strong> the Plaszow concentration<br />
camp, portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in the film Schindler’s List.<br />
Although she was placed in an orphanage and then adopted at a<br />
young age, Teege had some contact with her biological mother<br />
and grandmother. Yet neither revealed their family legacy, one<br />
indelibly marked by Goeth—the Nazi “butcher <strong>of</strong> Plaszow”—<br />
and his crimes as a concentration camp commandant. As she<br />
began to learn the scope <strong>of</strong> her grandfather’s crimes and address<br />
her subsequent depression, Teege delved into researching her<br />
family’s past.<br />
In My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Teege explores the revelatory<br />
journey <strong>of</strong> discovering her grandfather’s crimes, seeking<br />
greater understanding <strong>of</strong> her biological family and searching for<br />
a sense <strong>of</strong> closure for the victims. After her emotional pilgrimage,<br />
Teege says, “I’m no longer a prisoner <strong>of</strong> the past. <strong>The</strong>re is no Nazi<br />
gene: We can decide for ourselves who and what we want to be.”<br />
Jennifer Teege worked in advertising for fifteen years and lives in Germany<br />
with her husband and two sons. She holds a degree from Tel Aviv University<br />
in Middle Eastern and African studies. Her first book, a New York Times bestseller,<br />
has garnered critical acclaim.<br />
Book sale and signing to follow program. Limited parking.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong> the Federal<br />
Republic <strong>of</strong> Germany.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 8:00 PM<br />
Kehillat Shaarei Torah | 2640 Bayview Avenue<br />
Toronto | 416–229–2600<br />
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Photo by Isaac Applebaum.<br />
Suitcase belonging to Isaac Applebaum’s father used during family’s<br />
immigration to Canada in 1948. Image taken from “At My Mother’s Table,”<br />
K<strong>of</strong>fler Gallery installation, 2003.<br />
Dialogue for Descendants: “Second Generation”<br />
(2G) Symposium for Children <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Survivors<br />
This first annual symposium exclusively for children <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors (and/or<br />
their partners) is a forum for education, discussion and engagement. Featuring two<br />
keynote speakers and four workshops, participants will consider different perspectives<br />
on their role in perpetuating the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory.<br />
<strong>The</strong> symposium opens with remarks from Dr. Paula J. Draper, an historian and educator who has published<br />
widely on the topic <strong>of</strong> memory, history and the Canadian perspective on the Holocaust. She was the<br />
historical consultant during the establishment <strong>of</strong> the Toronto Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre<br />
(now Neuberger HEC), and was lead interviewer for the Shoah Foundation (now USC Shoah Foundation) in<br />
Canada. Dr. Draper is presently researching the postwar experiences <strong>of</strong> Canadian Holocaust survivors.<br />
Following the workshops, the symposium features a keynote address from Dr. Paula David, who lectures<br />
in Gerontology at the Factor Inwentash Faculty <strong>of</strong> Social Work, University <strong>of</strong> Toronto. Both her research<br />
and her frontline work focus on issues related to ageing Holocaust survivors and the impact <strong>of</strong> early life<br />
trauma on ageing. She coordinated the Holocaust Resource Project at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care<br />
for more than 20 years and has worked extensively with Holocaust survivors, leading group workshops,<br />
individual counselling and program development. She has developed teaching modules for pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
staff working with survivors <strong>of</strong> genocide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> “2G” symposium is generously sponsored by lead donors, Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors<br />
and Descendants (CJHSD), and Marilyn & Stephen Sinclair, in loving memory <strong>of</strong> their father Ernest (Ernie)<br />
Weiss, a Holocaust survivor speaker. For a complete list <strong>of</strong> all symposium supporters, see page 3.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 9:30 AM–3:30 PM<br />
Terraces <strong>of</strong> Baycrest Retirement Residence | 55 Ameer Avenue<br />
416–635–2883 × 5153 | neuberger@ujafed.org | ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED<br />
Workshops<br />
How Do I Want You to Remember<br />
the Holocaust? With Holocaust survivor<br />
speakers Judy Cohen (Hungary), Bill Glied<br />
(Yugoslavia), and Faigie Libman (Lithuania);<br />
moderated by Eli Rubenstein.<br />
How to Research Your Parents’ History?<br />
International Tracing Service with<br />
Dr. Diane Afoumado, USHMM.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Holocaust as an Inspiration for Art<br />
with authors Kathy Kacer and Edna Noy<br />
and filmmaker Isaac Applebaum; moderated<br />
by Bianca Stern (Baycrest).<br />
Holocaust Organizations in Toronto:<br />
Mission and Purpose—panel discussion<br />
with representatives from the Neuberger<br />
Holocaust Education Centre, March <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Living, Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors<br />
and Descendants’ Association, Jewish<br />
Family & Child.<br />
Participants may choose two <strong>of</strong> four<br />
workshops upon online registration—first<br />
come, first served. Attendance at this<br />
symposium is limited to children <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
survivors (and/or their partners)—<br />
no exceptions. <strong>The</strong> program cost is $36 per<br />
person which includes a full day <strong>of</strong> content<br />
plus light breakfast, lunch and snacks.<br />
Kashruth observed. Register online at<br />
www.ujaevents.com/registration/<br />
descendants.<br />
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Image courtesy <strong>of</strong> USC Shoah Foundation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Neuberger Centre is proud to partner<br />
with USC Shoah Foundation for a threemonth<br />
installation <strong>of</strong> New Dimensions in<br />
Testimony in our facility. Students and members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the public will have the opportunity<br />
to interact with a test version <strong>of</strong> the groundbreaking<br />
technology, experiencing a “virtual<br />
conversation” with Holocaust survivor<br />
speaker, Pinchas Gutter. Complete information<br />
will be available on holocaustcentre.com.<br />
Legacy Symposium for Young Pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
<strong>The</strong> seventh annual symposium features engaging workshops that invite participants in their 20s and 30s to explore the future<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory from different perspectives. Sessions will address this theme through survivor engagement, interactive technologies,<br />
and thought-provoking discussions. Special guests include HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence Dr. Michael Gray, Holocaust<br />
survivors and Azrieli Foundation authors Nate Leipciger, Claire Baum and Leslie Meisels, HEW closing night speaker Hannah<br />
Lessing, PhD candidate Amir Lavie, and more. <strong>The</strong> program concludes with a keynote presentation from Holocaust survivor Pinchas<br />
Gutter and Stephen Smith, executive director <strong>of</strong> USC Shoah Foundation, who will discuss New Dimensions in Testimony—an<br />
initiative that enables people to have “virtual conversations” with Holocaust survivors long into the future.<br />
Envisioned by concept developer Conscience Display, New Dimensions in Testimony was created with the technical expertise from USC’s Institute for Creative<br />
Technologies. Using state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art technology, New Dimensions in Testimony provides the opportunity to ask questions that instantly answered by the recorded<br />
image <strong>of</strong> the survivor. This allows users to walk down their own path <strong>of</strong> curiosity to learn about this important part <strong>of</strong> history. To create the lifelike exchange,<br />
advanced language-recognition s<strong>of</strong>tware understands the questions being asked and instantly plays back one <strong>of</strong> the thousands <strong>of</strong> questions answered by the<br />
survivor. <strong>The</strong> presentation will be moderated by Ramona Pringle, Director, Transmedia Zone, Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Faculty <strong>of</strong> Communication and Design, Ryerson<br />
University, and CBC technology columnist.<br />
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,<br />
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<br />
a death march from Germany to <strong>The</strong>resienstadt. He was liberated by the Soviet Army in May 1945 and was taken to Britain with other children for rehabilitation.<br />
He immigrated to Canada in 1985 from South Africa.<br />
A symposium for people in their 20s and 30s. <strong>The</strong> program is free <strong>of</strong> charge. Light lunch will be served; Kashruth observed. Copies <strong>of</strong> the memoirs published by<br />
the Azrieli Foundation authors will be provided. Register online at www.holocaustcentre.com/YPs.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Pinchas & Dorothy Gutter, in memory <strong>of</strong> his twin sister, Sabina; by Martin & Eleanor Maxwell, in memory <strong>of</strong> his sisters, Josephine<br />
and Erna Meisels who died in the Holocaust; by Jeff & Annalee Wagman, Echelon Wealth Partners; and by Jewish War Veterans <strong>of</strong> Canada. Co-presented by the<br />
Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University <strong>of</strong> Toronto.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 11:00 am<br />
Ryerson University | Oakham House | 55 Gould Street | Toronto | 416–631–5689<br />
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Szymon and his wife in Nice, France, 1948<br />
Image courtesy <strong>of</strong> André Laks family archive.<br />
Music <strong>of</strong> Another World: Szymon Laks, 1901–1983<br />
In honour <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education Week 2016, the ARC Ensemble (Artists <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong><br />
Royal Conservatory) will present a concert with a focus on Laks’ delightful music and<br />
feature a pre-concert talk about the life and music <strong>of</strong> this gifted composer from HEW<br />
2016 Artist-in-Residence Simon Wynberg, ARC Ensemble Artistic Director.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble has become one <strong>of</strong> Canada’s pre-eminent cultural ambassadors.<br />
Its members are either senior faculty members <strong>of</strong> the Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School or alumni<br />
with distinguished solo careers. <strong>The</strong> ARC Ensemble has performed in major venues throughout North America<br />
and Europe including appearances at the Budapest Spring Festival, New York’s Lincoln Center Festival,<br />
the Stratford Festival, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, and notably, a commemorative<br />
concert in Dachau in 2015 which marked the 70th anniversary <strong>of</strong> the camp’s liberation. Its recordings and<br />
performances are broadcast around the world. <strong>The</strong> ARC Ensemble has earned an international reputation<br />
for its exploration and recovery <strong>of</strong> a vast amount <strong>of</strong> music that was lost or marginalized due to political<br />
suppression. Its “Music in Exile” series, dedicated to composers who were forced to flee Hitler’s Europe, has<br />
been mounted to great acclaim in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Rome, Budapest, Toronto, New York and London, and<br />
a number <strong>of</strong> 20th century masterworks have rejoined the canon as a result <strong>of</strong> the ensemble’s initiatives. Its<br />
sixth recording, to be released on Chandos in Spring 2017, is devoted to the music <strong>of</strong> the Polish/French<br />
composer Szymon Laks (1901–1983), who survived Auschwitz and Dachau and settled in Paris after the war.<br />
ARC Ensemble: Marie Bérard and Erika Raum (violins), Steven Dann (viola), Winona Zelenka (cello),<br />
David Louie and Dianne Werner (pianos).<br />
CD signing to follow the program. Free admission; pre-registration is required. Reserve tickets by visiting<br />
music<strong>of</strong>anotherworld.eventbrite.ca or by calling 905–771–5526.<br />
Co-sponsored by the Town <strong>of</strong> Richmond Hill.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beit Rayim Synagogue and School at <strong>The</strong> Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts<br />
10268 Yonge Street | Richmond Hill | 905–771–5526<br />
Artist-in-Residence<br />
Neuberger HEW 2016 Artist-in-Residence<br />
Simon Wynberg has been the artistic director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the ARC Ensemble (Artists <strong>of</strong> the Royal<br />
Conservatory), the organization’s ensemblein-residence,<br />
since its establishment in 2002.<br />
He is responsible for its programming, touring,<br />
recording projects and overall development.<br />
He founded and directed the Scottish Festival,<br />
Music in Blair Atholl from 1990 to 2011 and was<br />
Artistic Director <strong>of</strong> Ontario’s Music at Speedside<br />
and the Guelph Spring Festival from 1994<br />
to 2002. In tandem with his work for the ARC<br />
Ensemble, he lectures and writes on music<br />
under National Socialism, and is particularly<br />
involved in the research, performance and<br />
restitution <strong>of</strong> works by composers who were<br />
exiled and marginalized because <strong>of</strong> it. As a<br />
guitarist, his entry in <strong>The</strong> New Grove Dictionary<br />
<strong>of</strong> Music and Musicians describes him as “not<br />
only a virtuoso performer <strong>of</strong> distinction but<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the guitar’s foremost scholars” and his<br />
pioneering work in the field <strong>of</strong> guitar repertoire<br />
has introduced performers to a large body <strong>of</strong><br />
hitherto unknown music.<br />
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Image courtesy <strong>of</strong> USC Shoah Foundation.<br />
Personal Access to the ITS Archive<br />
Until 2007, the International Tracing Service (ITS), located in<br />
Bad Arolsen, Germany, was the largest closed Holocaust archive<br />
in the world. Established by the Allied powers after the war to<br />
help reunite families and trace missing family members, it holds<br />
millions <strong>of</strong> pages <strong>of</strong> documentation. <strong>The</strong> USHMM in Washington<br />
led an effort to open the archive to the public and remains the<br />
only North American access point for the 150 million documents.<br />
In a personal consultation with Diane Afoumado, you can access<br />
the archive to search your family history.<br />
Dr. Diane Afoumado is Chief <strong>of</strong> the Research and Reference Branch at the<br />
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust<br />
Memorial Museum in Washington. She specializes in Holocaust survivors’<br />
and victims’ resources. An historian who specializes in Holocaust studies,<br />
Afoumado has taught history at the University <strong>of</strong> Paris and collaborated on<br />
several research projects, including one with renowned historian and attorney<br />
Serge Klarsfeld on the French internment camps.<br />
Between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, Dr. Afoumado will <strong>of</strong>fer individual consultations<br />
for people interested in accessing the ITS database. Appointments are limited;<br />
pre-registration is required at neuberger@ujafed.org or 416–635–2883 × 5153.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 10:00 AM–4:00 PM<br />
Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre<br />
UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto<br />
Lipa Green Centre | 4600 Bathurst Street | Boardroom #3<br />
Toronto | 416–635–2883 × 5153<br />
Addressing Austria’s Past: Responsibility,<br />
Remembrance and Restitution<br />
Hannah Lessing, Secretary General <strong>of</strong> the National Fund <strong>of</strong><br />
the Republic <strong>of</strong> Austria for Victims <strong>of</strong> National Socialism, will<br />
explore both moral and legal dimensions <strong>of</strong> restitution. <strong>The</strong><br />
National Fund <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Austria for Victims <strong>of</strong> National<br />
Socialism was established in 1995 in order to express Austria’s<br />
moral responsibility towards all victims <strong>of</strong> National Socialism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fund has been able to acknowledge the suffering <strong>of</strong> approximately<br />
30,000 survivors with symbolic payments. In 2011, it<br />
was entrusted with coordinating the redesign <strong>of</strong> the new Austrian<br />
exhibition at the Auschwitz memorial and with administering<br />
the funds for the restoration <strong>of</strong> the Jewish cemeteries in<br />
Austria. <strong>The</strong> General Settlement Fund for Victims <strong>of</strong> National<br />
Socialism was established in order to comprehensively resolve<br />
open questions <strong>of</strong> compensation for victims. In a complex and<br />
elaborate procedure, the GSF has thus far disbursed approximately<br />
212 million US dollars to more than 20,500 people and<br />
has almost completed its work. All payments disbursed by the<br />
funds are made in commemoration <strong>of</strong> the victims.<br />
Limited capacity; RSVP required to Bryan Jones at rsvp@airdberlis.com or<br />
416–865–4745.<br />
Co-sponsored by Aird & Berlis and PricewaterhouseCoopers.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 12:00 PM<br />
Aird & Berlis LLP | Please RSVP for Location | 416–865–4745<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> Of Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong> | P22<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> personal testimonies <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors have been foundational<br />
to Holocaust research and memorial culture. However,<br />
with the passing <strong>of</strong> time as fewer and fewer survivors remain<br />
among us, Holocaust scholarship, which relies on the transmission<br />
<strong>of</strong> personal and collective narratives <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust, must<br />
adapt in new and innovative ways.<br />
Around the world, wherever Holocaust survivors immigrated,<br />
they leave behind written, audio, and video testimonies. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
sources have ensured the transmission <strong>of</strong> their testimony to their<br />
children and grandchildren, researchers, students and teachers.<br />
As our global society transitions to a new era <strong>of</strong> Holocaust testimony,<br />
those who are not survivors or their descendants increasingly<br />
play a critical role in the transmission <strong>of</strong> the history and<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust. <strong>The</strong> Neuberger’s panel <strong>of</strong> distinguished<br />
experts will discuss the potential opportunities and challenges<br />
facing the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust testimony.<br />
Panelists include Karen Jungblut, who as Director <strong>of</strong> Collections at USC Shoah<br />
Foundation, oversees USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony<br />
initiative, a project that enables people to have “virtual conversations” with<br />
Holocaust survivors long into the future; and Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter,<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the primary participants in New Dimensions in Testimony; Alice Herscovitch,<br />
Executive Director, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, co-originator<br />
with the Neuberger HEC <strong>of</strong> the Canadian Collection partnership with USC Shoah<br />
Foundation Visual History Archive, recently launched in Toronto and Montreal;<br />
Jody Spiegel, Director <strong>of</strong> the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs<br />
Program, working to make the collections <strong>of</strong> survivor stories accessible in media<br />
beyond print; and moderated and chaired by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Anna Shternshis,<br />
Director, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, and Al and Malka Green<br />
Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in Yiddish Studies at the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Joyce & Aaron Rifkind.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM<br />
Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish<br />
Studies | University <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
Jackman Hall | 170 St. George Street | Room 100<br />
Toronto | 416–978–1624<br />
Son <strong>of</strong> Saul<br />
This film follows Saul Auslander, a Jewish Hungarian<br />
prisoner working as a Sonderkommando at one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Auschwitz crematoria who, over the span <strong>of</strong> two days<br />
in 1944, attempts to bury the corpse <strong>of</strong> a boy he takes<br />
for his son. In one final desperate act <strong>of</strong> morality, Saul<br />
pursues the impossible task <strong>of</strong> giving the boy a ritual<br />
burial, salvaging the body and finding a rabbi to recite<br />
the Mourner’s Kaddish (2015, Hungarian with English<br />
subtitles, 107 minutes).<br />
Winner <strong>of</strong> the Palm D’Or at Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Film<br />
at the 2015 Oscars, Son <strong>of</strong> Saul is a haunting addition to the pantheon<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust films. Its stark realism and tight focus on Saul’s face as<br />
he goes about his tasks allows the audience glimpses <strong>of</strong> the horrors<br />
implied through sound and background. <strong>The</strong> result is one <strong>of</strong> the most<br />
realistic depictions <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust on film, leaving a lasting impression<br />
on the viewer. Featuring special guest, László Rajk, Production<br />
Designer, <strong>of</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Saul.<br />
Pre-registration required. Call 416–631–5689 or online at<br />
holocausteducationweek.com. Limit 4 tickets per family.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong> Hungary in<br />
Toronto and by the Brown and Lindenberg families.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk<br />
5095 Yonge Street | 3RD floor<br />
Toronto | 416–847–0218<br />
Son <strong>of</strong> Saul image courtesy <strong>of</strong> Hungarian National Film Fund.<br />
For program changes visit:<br />
holocausteducationweek.com<br />
or call 416–631–5689.<br />
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Educator-in-Residence<br />
Neuberger HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence<br />
Dr. Michael Gray is Head <strong>of</strong> Government<br />
and Politics and teacher <strong>of</strong> History at Harrow<br />
School in London, one <strong>of</strong> the UK’s oldest and<br />
most famous schools. Michael studied history<br />
at King’s College London and then completed<br />
his PhD in Holocaust education at the<br />
UCL Institute <strong>of</strong> Education. To date he has<br />
published two books, Contemporary Debates<br />
in Holocaust Education and Teaching the<br />
Holocaust: Practical Approaches for Ages 11–18,<br />
as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal<br />
articles on subjects such as students’ perceptions<br />
<strong>of</strong> Jewish identity, the impact <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Boy<br />
in the Striped Pyjamas on teaching the Holocaust,<br />
and students’ preconceptions <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Holocaust. He has presented internationally<br />
and works with the UK’s Holocaust Educational<br />
Trust in training teachers and educators around<br />
the country. Michael was recently involved in<br />
coding data for a national study <strong>of</strong> students’<br />
knowledge and understanding <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust<br />
conducted by the UCL Centre for Holocaust<br />
Education. He has also developed a number<br />
<strong>of</strong> curriculum resources on the Rwandan<br />
genocide for Survivors Fund and is a member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the British Association for Holocaust Studies<br />
and the International Network <strong>of</strong> Genocide<br />
Scholars.<br />
Exploring the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education through Survivor Testimony:<br />
36th Annual Student Symposium on the Holocaust<br />
In honour <strong>of</strong> this year’s HEW theme, the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>, the Neuberger’s signature High School Student Symposium on the<br />
Holocaust will focus on exploring the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivor testimony. A keynote address from HEW 2016 Educator-in-Residence<br />
Dr. Michael Gray will set the stage for the day-long multisession program. Gray will address learning about the Holocaust in<br />
contemporary settings as we face a pivotal point in Holocaust education—a future without survivors. He will go beyond the survivor<br />
model to investigate other forms <strong>of</strong> memory.<br />
Following the opening keynote, students will have opportunities to engage with different forms <strong>of</strong> testimony, rotating through three smaller interactive sessions.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se include the USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT) project, an initiative that enables students to have “virtual conversations” with<br />
Holocaust survivors long into the future, recordings from the newly-launched Canadian collection <strong>of</strong> survivor testimony, and a documentary film. Special guests<br />
include USC Shoah Foundation’s Karen Jungblut and Kia Hays.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program will conclude with a closing keynote from Holocaust survivor speaker Pinchas Gutter, discussing his work with the NDT project, reflecting on<br />
the process, and sharing his perspective on the different kinds <strong>of</strong> testimony. <strong>The</strong> symposium will <strong>of</strong>fer students an interactive, inquiry-based forum to explore<br />
learning about the Holocaust for the future. For Pinchas Gutter’s bio, see page 19.<br />
This program is generously supported by Fred and May Karp and Family.<br />
Program open to high school students and their instructors. Free <strong>of</strong> charge. Registration required at holocaustcentre.com/Educators-Students/<br />
Student-Symposium. For more information, contact Michelle: mfishman@ujafed.org. Unfortunately, this program is not open to members <strong>of</strong> the public.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | Registration 9:00 AM | Program 9:30 AM<br />
TIFF Bell Lightbox | 350 King Street West | Toronto | 416–631–5689<br />
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History and Imagination: <strong>The</strong> Place <strong>of</strong><br />
Literature in Holocaust Remembrance<br />
<strong>The</strong> role <strong>of</strong> literature in commemorating the Holocaust has been<br />
the subject <strong>of</strong> controversy. Some historians, philosophers and<br />
literary critics maintain that literature —and especially fiction<br />
—has no place in the remembrance <strong>of</strong> a historical event. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
worry that when it comes to the Shoah, engaging the literary<br />
imagination trivializes the historical horrors and opens a door for<br />
Holocaust deniers. But others see a particular value in literature<br />
about the Shoah, which <strong>of</strong>fers insights not available through<br />
historical accounts. A panel <strong>of</strong> writers and literary critics, moderated<br />
by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sara R. Horowitz, will debate the place and<br />
value <strong>of</strong> literary approaches to Holocaust memory.<br />
For updated information, visit holocausteducationweek.com.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM<br />
Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies<br />
York University | Kaneff Tower | Room 519<br />
4700 Keele Street | Toronto | 416–736–5823<br />
<strong>Memory</strong> After Belsen image courtesy <strong>of</strong> Henri Lustiger Thaler.<br />
<strong>Memory</strong> After Belsen<br />
This feature-length documentary explores the lives and memories<br />
<strong>of</strong> children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
survivors, investigating the resonance <strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory<br />
through the generations. Bergen-Belsen serves as a model for<br />
posing broader questions about the transmission <strong>of</strong> memory <strong>of</strong><br />
the Holocaust. How has the survivor generation impacted the<br />
second generation and how will next generations be responsible<br />
for preserving this history? <strong>Memory</strong> After Belsen explores multiple<br />
forms <strong>of</strong> Holocaust memory through the prism <strong>of</strong> wide-ranging<br />
and compelling oral histories. In a period with the sharpest decline<br />
<strong>of</strong> the survivor generation, <strong>Memory</strong> After Belsen focuses on the<br />
future <strong>of</strong> the memory <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust (2014, English, 76 minutes).<br />
Special guests are executive producers Edward Sonshine and Henri Lustiger<br />
Thaler. <strong>The</strong> author and editor <strong>of</strong> seven books and many scholarly articles,<br />
Dr. Lustiger Thaler is an internationally recognized exhibition curator on the<br />
history <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust and an Associate Researcher at CADIS, <strong>of</strong> the Ecole<br />
des hautes etudes en science sociales in Paris, France, and Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
Cultural & Historical Sociology at Ramapo College in the USA. A lawyer by<br />
training, Mr. Sonshine is CEO <strong>of</strong> RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, a Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Royal Bank <strong>of</strong> Canada and Cineplex Galaxy Entertainment. Born in<br />
Bergen-Belsen, Mr. Sonshine immigrated to Canada at the age <strong>of</strong> two where he<br />
continues to live with his family. A dessert reception will follow the screening.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Fran & Ed Sonshine in memory <strong>of</strong> their parents,<br />
Ben & Helen Sonshine and Irving & Frida Lebovici.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Jacob Family <strong>The</strong>atre | Posluns Auditorium<br />
Baycrest | 3560 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
Community Safety, Insecurity, and<br />
Radicalization: Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong> and<br />
Education in the 21st Century<br />
This panel discussion focuses on issues <strong>of</strong> antisemitism and<br />
community safety in Europe. Concern over Jewish community<br />
safety continues to be prominent, including apprehension over<br />
Holocaust denial and trivialization. This session focuses on<br />
responses that seek to increase community security and address<br />
radicalization: in France, a prefect was appointed to protect religious<br />
and cultural sites; the Director <strong>of</strong> the Mémorial de la Shoah<br />
has identified Holocaust and genocide education as a means to<br />
combat antisemitism; and a European Commission Colloquium<br />
has included Holocaust education and criminalizing Holocaust<br />
denial as hate speech among its proposals to address hate crime<br />
and promote inclusivity. Building on these responses, this discussion<br />
will include invited panelists, chaired by HEW Scholar-in-<br />
Residence Pr<strong>of</strong>. Ron Levi, who will explore the meaning <strong>of</strong><br />
community safety in the current context, the role <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
memory and education in addressing radicalization, and how<br />
the European Jewish experience opens thinking into the role <strong>of</strong><br />
memory in promoting community safety.<br />
Registration required at munkschool.utoronto.ca/events.<br />
Co-presented by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong> France. Generously co-sponsored<br />
by Naomi Rifkind Mansell & David Mansell in honour <strong>of</strong> Joyce Rifkind. <strong>The</strong> HEW<br />
Scholar-in-Residence is sponsored by the Cohen Family Charitable Trust.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 3:00 PM<br />
Munk School for Global Affairs<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
1 Devonshire Place | Toronto | 416–946–8900<br />
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Image courtesy Michael Rajzman for the Neuberger.<br />
Exploring the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting<br />
This Lunch and Learn program features Neuberger HEW Educator-in-Residence Dr. Michael Gray. Join us<br />
as he explores future practice <strong>of</strong> Holocaust education in contemporary settings. How will the Holocaust be<br />
remembered in the future? How will next generations continue to learn about the Holocaust in a reality<br />
without live survivor testimony? Dr. Gray will share some <strong>of</strong> his research in this area and illuminate possible<br />
opportunities and challenges for the future.<br />
Keynote will be followed by an interactive Q & A. Light lunch provided; Kashruth observed. This program is designed for Jewish<br />
community pr<strong>of</strong>essionals and educators; open to the general public (adults). Attendance by advance registration only. Please<br />
call 416–635–2883 × 5153 or email neuberger@ujafed.org. Limited space available.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Holbrook family in loving memory <strong>of</strong> their infant son, Jeremy.<br />
Thursday, 10 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Prosserman JCC | Room 123 | 4588 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–635–2883 × 5153<br />
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portfolio<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre inspired<br />
the development <strong>of</strong> the photographic series based on the HEW theme,<br />
the <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>. Drawn from the collection <strong>of</strong> UJA Federation’s<br />
Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, the images<br />
present fragments <strong>of</strong> personal and, at times, universal histories. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
photographs have the potential to imply new meanings for each viewer,<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering a range <strong>of</strong> perspectives on history and photography.<br />
Through hand-manipulated interventions I alter and subsequently<br />
photograph the images to create new photos. I carefully perforate each<br />
photo and shine light though the small openings in order to bring new<br />
light into the photograph. Each image is changed through this action;<br />
new interpretations are possible. My hope is to invite further contemplation<br />
and extend the possibilities inherent in a singular photograph.<br />
Amy Friend, 2016
© Amy Friend. Source Image: Unknown woman, (Vilna?), 192–? Ontario Jewish Archives, accession 1988-10-11.<br />
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.<br />
© 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<br />
Central to the educational mandate <strong>of</strong> Neuberger HEW is to create opportunities to learn from<br />
first-person testimony <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors for as long as possible. While the future <strong>of</strong> testimony<br />
may rest with recorded testimony, oral and written memoirs, in addition to new technological<br />
methods, Neuberger HEW is proud to <strong>of</strong>fer first-person testimony by Holocaust survivor speakers<br />
at venues across the city with the support <strong>of</strong> our public libraries.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se programs are organized individually by libraries committed to ensuring the future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
remembrance with support from the Neuberger. <strong>The</strong> libraries draw audiences from local communities<br />
and area schools to ensure students and community members from across the GTA have access to<br />
Holocaust education. Members <strong>of</strong> the public are welcome to attend these library programs.<br />
In Conversation with<br />
a Holocaust Survivor<br />
Today’s students will be among the last to<br />
experience in-person accounts <strong>of</strong> those who<br />
survived the Holocaust. Neuberger HEW is<br />
proud to continue to <strong>of</strong>fer first-person testimony<br />
by Holocaust survivor speakers at schools<br />
and libraries across the GTA for HEW 2016.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following programs feature a Holocaust<br />
survivor speaker sharing testimony in the<br />
“In Conversation” format, developed with<br />
support from the Conference on Material<br />
Claims Against Germany, Inc.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre<br />
gratefully acknowledges members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Survivor Speakers’ Bureau for their inspired<br />
contributions to Holocaust education. For a<br />
complete listing <strong>of</strong> programs with Holocaust<br />
survivor testimony and biographies for<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the Neuberger Survivor Speakers’<br />
Bureau, visit holocausteducationweek.com.<br />
Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman<br />
Photography, 2010 & 2015.<br />
Programs featuring Holocaust survivor<br />
authors published by the Azrieli Foundation<br />
will include free copies <strong>of</strong> their memoirs. <strong>The</strong><br />
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program was<br />
established by the Azrieli Foundation in 2005<br />
to collect, preserve and share the memoirs<br />
and diaries written by survivors <strong>of</strong> the twentieth-century<br />
Nazi genocide <strong>of</strong> the Jews <strong>of</strong><br />
Europe who later made their way to Canada.<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Eva Meisels will<br />
speak about her experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Eva Meisels was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939.<br />
After her father was taken to a forced labour camp<br />
in 1942, Eva and her mother were in the Budapest<br />
Ghetto and eventually, a safe house. <strong>The</strong>y obtained<br />
false papers from Raoul Wallenberg and were liberated<br />
by the Soviet Army. After the war, Eva went<br />
back to school and immigrated to Canada in 1956.<br />
Copies <strong>of</strong> Suddenly the Shadow Fell are published<br />
by and generously provided by the Azrieli Foundation<br />
and will be available for author signing following<br />
the program.<br />
Co-presented by Markham Public Library.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 10:30 AM<br />
Thornhill Community Centre Library<br />
7755 Bayview Avenue, Markham<br />
905–513–7977<br />
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Mark Lane was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. In<br />
1944 he was deported to Auschwitz where his family<br />
was murdered. In 1945 he was taken on a death<br />
march to Mauthausen in Austria. He was liberated in<br />
1945 from Gunskirchen and immigrated to Canada<br />
in 1951.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Dufferin Clark Library<br />
1441 Clark Avenue West | Vaughan<br />
905–653–7323<br />
Polish Holocaust survivor Manny Langer will speak<br />
about his experience during the Holocaust. Manny<br />
Langer was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1929. Manny<br />
was forced to live in the Lodz Ghetto before being<br />
transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-<br />
Belsen concentration camps. After liberation, he<br />
travelled back to Poland where he found two surviving<br />
sisters. In 1946, he immigrated to the United<br />
States, and in 1951, Manny and his sisters immigrated<br />
to Canada.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Mary Seldon and<br />
family in memory <strong>of</strong> all our family killed in the<br />
Holocaust.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Richview Library<br />
1806 Islington Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–394–5120<br />
Romanian Holocaust survivor Felicia Carmelly will<br />
tell her story <strong>of</strong> survival. Felicia Carmelly was born<br />
in Romania in 1931. In October 1941, Felicia and her<br />
family were deported to the camps in Transnistria<br />
where 36 members <strong>of</strong> her extended family were<br />
murdered. Felicia was liberated by the Soviet Army<br />
in 1944, and returned to her home in 1945. After<br />
living under Communist rule in post-war Romania,<br />
Felicia immigrated to Canada in 1962. Copies <strong>of</strong> her<br />
award-winning book, Shattered! 50 Years <strong>of</strong> Silence,<br />
History and Voices <strong>of</strong> the Tragedy in Romania<br />
and Transnistria, will be available for purchase and<br />
author signing following the program. Copies <strong>of</strong> her<br />
memoir, Across the Rivers <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>, are published<br />
by and generously provided by the Azrieli Foundation.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM & 3:00 PM<br />
Barbara Frum Library<br />
20 Covington Road | Toronto<br />
416–395–5440<br />
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Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman Photography, 2010 & 2015.<br />
AMEK ADLER b.<br />
Poland 1928.<br />
Survived ghettos,<br />
concentration<br />
and death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1954.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 41, 47.<br />
CLAIRE BAUM<br />
b. Holland 1936.<br />
Survived in hiding.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1951.<br />
Programs: see<br />
page 19.<br />
HEDY BOHM<br />
b. Romania 1928.<br />
Survived slave labour,<br />
concentration and<br />
death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 36, 48.<br />
FELICIA CARMELLY<br />
b. Romania 1931.<br />
Survived concentration<br />
camps in Transnistria.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1962. Programs: see<br />
pages 32, 35, 41, 48.<br />
HOWARD CHANDLER<br />
b. Poland 1928.<br />
Survived slave labour,<br />
concentration and<br />
death camps.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1947. Programs: see<br />
page 35.<br />
JUDY WEISSENBERG COHEN<br />
b. Hungary 1928. Survived<br />
slave labour, concentration<br />
and death camps. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1948. Programs:<br />
see pages 18, 41, 51.<br />
ALEXANDER EISEN<br />
b. Austria 1929.<br />
Survived in the<br />
Budapest Ghetto<br />
and with false papers.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1952. Programs:<br />
see pages 35, 36.<br />
MAX EISEN<br />
b. Czechoslovakia<br />
1929. Survived<br />
concentration, slave<br />
labour and death<br />
camps. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1949.<br />
SALLY EISNER<br />
b. Poland 1922. Survived<br />
a ghetto, concentration<br />
and death camps.<br />
Immigrated to Canada 1949.<br />
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ANITA EKSTEIN<br />
b. Poland 1934.<br />
Survived a ghetto,<br />
in hiding and<br />
with false papers.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
ESTHER FAIRBLOOM<br />
b. Poland, year unknown.<br />
Survived a ghetto and<br />
in hiding. Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1951. Programs:<br />
see pages 41, 45.<br />
SHARY MARMOR FINE<br />
b. Romania 1927.<br />
Survived slave labour<br />
and death camps.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1948.<br />
Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman Photography, 2010 & 2015.<br />
EDWARD FISCH<br />
b. Hungary 1933.<br />
Survived a ghetto<br />
and in hiding.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 35, 47.<br />
GEORGE FOX<br />
b. Ukraine 1917.<br />
Survived ghettos<br />
and death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
MIRIAM FRANKEL<br />
b. Czechoslovakia 1927.<br />
Survived a ghetto and<br />
death camp. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1948.<br />
Programs: see page 41.<br />
GERDA FRIEBERG<br />
b. Poland 1925. Survived<br />
a ghetto and concentration<br />
camp. Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1953. Programs:<br />
see page 41.<br />
EDITH GELBARD<br />
b. Austria 1932.<br />
Survived a holding<br />
camp, in hiding<br />
and with a false<br />
identity. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1958.<br />
BILL GLIED<br />
b. Serbia 1930.<br />
Survived<br />
concentration,<br />
slave labour and<br />
death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1947.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 18, 41, 48.<br />
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Hungarian Holocaust survivor Andy Réti will speak<br />
about his personal experiences in the Holocaust.<br />
Andy Réti was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1942.<br />
He survived in the Budapest Ghetto together with<br />
his mother and paternal grandparents. His father<br />
was murdered in a forced labour camp. Andy was<br />
liberated in January 1945. In October 1956, he was<br />
able to immigrate to Canada. Copies <strong>of</strong> Stronger<br />
Together are published by and generously provided<br />
by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available for<br />
author signing following the program.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Cedarbrae Public Library 545 Markham Road<br />
Scarborough | 416–396–8850<br />
Hidden Gold:<br />
A Family’s Survival Story<br />
Author Ella Burakowski will reveal the riveting<br />
story behind her discovery <strong>of</strong> how her family<br />
courageously survived a harrowing 26 months<br />
during the Second World War and her journey to<br />
writing Hidden Gold: A True Story <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust.<br />
Books will be available for purchase and author<br />
signing following the program.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Downsview Library<br />
2793 Keele Street | Toronto<br />
416–395–0700<br />
Polish Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Howard Chandler was born in Wierzbnik, Poland,<br />
in 1928. He was a prisoner in Starachowice Labour<br />
Camp between 1942 and 1944, then in Auschwitz-<br />
Birkenau, Buchenwald and <strong>The</strong>resienstadt between<br />
1944 and 1945. He immigrated to Canada in 1947<br />
as a war orphan with other children from England.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Stephen Greenberg in<br />
honour <strong>of</strong> Howard Chandler.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Wychwood Public Library<br />
1431 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–393–7683<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Edward Fisch<br />
will speak about his personal experiences in the<br />
Holocaust. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1933,<br />
his father was conscripted in 1942 into the Slave<br />
Labour Battalion in Hungary; his mother was<br />
deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Edward<br />
and his brother survived in Swiss protected<br />
houses. Edward immigrated to Canada in 1948.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Don Mills Library<br />
888 Lawrence Avenue East<br />
Toronto | 416–395–5710<br />
<strong>The</strong> Last Train<br />
Rona Arato’s award-winning children’s book, <strong>The</strong><br />
Last Train, is the story <strong>of</strong> a Hungarian Jewish family<br />
during the Holocaust and the miraculous event that<br />
saved their lives. Told through the eyes <strong>of</strong> six- and<br />
11-year-old brothers, Paul and Oscar, it celebrates<br />
their courage and the humanity <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
soldiers who liberated them. Books will be available<br />
for purchase and author signing following the program.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Mt. Pleasant Library | 599 Mt. Pleasant Road<br />
Toronto | 416–393–7737<br />
Romanian Holocaust survivor Joe (Joseph) Leinburd<br />
will speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Joe Leinburd was born in Suceava, Romania, in 1922.<br />
In 1941, the Romanian Fascist Regime, collaborating<br />
with Nazi Germany, deported the entire Jewish population<br />
<strong>of</strong> Northern Bucovina and Bessarabia to<br />
Transnistria, an area in southwestern Ukraine. Miraculously,<br />
his entire family survived a death march from<br />
Moghilev to Murafa and was liberated in 1944. After<br />
spending two-and-a-half years in Displaced Persons<br />
camps, Joe and his wife immigrated to Canada in 1949.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 10:30 AM<br />
Danforth/Coxwell Library<br />
1675 Danforth Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–393–7784<br />
Dutch Holocaust survivor Leonard Vis will speak<br />
about his experience during the Holocaust. Leonard<br />
Vis was born in Amsterdam in 1930. After Nazi<br />
Germany occupied the Netherlands, his family went<br />
into hiding. <strong>The</strong>y all survived and were liberated<br />
in 1945. After the war, Leonard served two years in<br />
the Dutch Army before moving to New York. Leonard<br />
immigrated to Canada in 1967.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Palmerston Public Library<br />
560 Palmerston Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–393–7680<br />
Dutch Holocaust survivor Gershon Willinger will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Gershon Willinger was born in Amsterdam in 1942<br />
to German-Jewish parents who were later murdered.<br />
He was placed in hiding as a young orphan. In 1944,<br />
as a two-year-old child, he was deported and later<br />
was liberated in 1945. He became a social worker<br />
and immigrated to Canada in 1977.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Gerrard/Ashdale Library<br />
1432 Gerrard Street East | Toronto<br />
416–393–7717<br />
Romanian Holocaust survivor Felicia Carmelly<br />
will tell her story <strong>of</strong> survival. Felicia Carmelly was<br />
born in Romania in 1931. For her bio, see page 32.<br />
Copies <strong>of</strong> her memoir, Across the Rivers <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>,<br />
are published by and generously provided by the<br />
Azrieli Foundation. Copies <strong>of</strong> her book, Shattered!<br />
50 Years <strong>of</strong> Silence, History and Voices <strong>of</strong> the Tragedy<br />
in Romania and Transnistria, will be available for<br />
purchase and author signing following the program.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Spadina Road Public Library<br />
10 Spadina Road | Toronto<br />
416–393–7666<br />
In the Presence <strong>of</strong><br />
my Neighbours<br />
Filmmaker George Gedeon will screen and discuss<br />
his film, In the Presence <strong>of</strong> My Neighbours (2012,<br />
English). <strong>The</strong> film and talk will explore the plight<br />
<strong>of</strong> Greek Jews in the Second World War.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Gail & Stanley Debow<br />
in memory <strong>of</strong> Max & Maria Reisberg.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 6:30 PM<br />
Victoria Village Public Library<br />
184 Sloane Avenue | North York<br />
416–395–5951<br />
Dutch Holocaust survivor Gershon Willinger will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see left.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 11:00 AM<br />
College/Shaw Public Library<br />
766 College Street | Toronto<br />
416–393–7668<br />
Austrian Holocaust survivor Alexander Eisen will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Alexander Eisen born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929.<br />
After the Anschluss in 1938, the Eisen family fled<br />
to Hungary. In 1939, Alex’s father was arrested<br />
and fled to Palestine, leaving his family. <strong>The</strong> family<br />
endured the hardships <strong>of</strong> the Budapest Ghetto,<br />
but later managed to escape and live in hiding<br />
until liberation in 1945. He immigrated to Canada<br />
in 1952.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Davenport Library<br />
1246 Shaw Street | Toronto<br />
416–393–7732<br />
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Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane<br />
will speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 32.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 11:00 AM<br />
Maple Library | 10190 Keele Street<br />
905–653–7323<br />
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 32.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Bathurst Clark Resource Library<br />
900 Clark Avenue West | Thornhill<br />
905–653–7323<br />
Austrian Holocaust survivor Alexander Eisen will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 35.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by an anonymous donor<br />
in memory <strong>of</strong> Danny Saltzman.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Deer Park Library<br />
40 St Clair Avenue East | Toronto<br />
416–393–7658<br />
Children <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust<br />
Join us for a special screening <strong>of</strong> Children <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Holocaust (2014, English), animated short documentary<br />
films created by BBC Learning and Fettle<br />
Animation. A Q&A session following the screening<br />
will be moderated by Lorenz Glettler, Austrian<br />
Holocaust Memorial Intern (Gedenkdiener, Austrian<br />
Service Abroad) at the Neuberger.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Yigal Rifkind in honour<br />
<strong>of</strong> his mother, Joyce Rifkind.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 10:00 AM<br />
Beaches Library<br />
2161 Queen Street East | Toronto<br />
416–393–7703<br />
Romanian Holocaust survivor Joe (Joseph) Leinburd<br />
will speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 35.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Bloor/Gladstone Library<br />
1101 Bloor Street West | Toronto<br />
416–393–7674<br />
<strong>The</strong> Past in the <strong>Future</strong>:<br />
Re-Envisioning Holocaust<br />
Literature<br />
Dr. Frank Bialystok, Pr<strong>of</strong>. Laura Wiseman, and<br />
Rona Arato will speak about various genres <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust literature and the implications for the<br />
future: creative non-fiction, memoirs and diaries,<br />
and historical fiction.<br />
Co-presented by the Ekstein Holocaust Resource<br />
Library at the Neuberger and the Association<br />
<strong>of</strong> Jewish Libraries. Generously co-sponsored by<br />
Helen Stollar in memory <strong>of</strong> all the children killed<br />
in the Holocaust.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Association <strong>of</strong> Jewish Libraries at the<br />
Ekstein Holocaust Resource Library<br />
Lipa Green Centre | 4th floor<br />
4600 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–635–2996<br />
Paul-Henri Rips:<br />
Matricule E/96<br />
Paul-Henri Rips, survivant de l’Holocauste et auteur<br />
de Matricule E/96, témoigne de l’expérience juive<br />
en Belgique pendant la guerre. Paul-Henri Rips,<br />
a Holocaust survivor and author <strong>of</strong> E/96, discusses<br />
his experience in Belgium during the Holocaust.<br />
This program is in French. Paul-Henri will read from<br />
his memoir, Matricule E/96, published by the Azrieli<br />
Foundation. Copies <strong>of</strong> Matricule E/96 are generously<br />
provided by the Azrieli Foundation.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 10:00 AM<br />
Toronto Reference Library<br />
789 Yonge Street | Toronto<br />
416–393–7014<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Andy Réti will speak<br />
about his experience during the Holocaust. For his<br />
bio, see page 35. Copies <strong>of</strong> Stronger Together are<br />
published by and generously provided by the Azrieli<br />
Foundation and will be available for author signing<br />
following the program.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 10:30 AM<br />
Brentwood Library<br />
36 Brentwood Road North | Etobicoke<br />
416–394–5240<br />
Romanian Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm will speak<br />
about her experience during the Holocaust. Hedy<br />
Bohm was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1928. She was<br />
an only child, and attended a Jewish girls’ school.<br />
In 1944, Hedy and her family were sent to a ghetto.<br />
Within two months she was deported to Auschwitz-<br />
Birkenau. She was then selected for forced work<br />
detail at an ammunition factory and shipped to Fallersleben,<br />
Germany. American forces liberated Hedy<br />
in April 1945. In 1948, Hedy and her husband immigrated<br />
to Canada.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Axler, Glazer &<br />
Lang families, in honor <strong>of</strong> Feiga Glazer and in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> the late Mozes Glazer, both Holocaust<br />
survivors.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Locke Branch<br />
3083 Yonge Street | Toronto<br />
416–393–7730<br />
Polish Holocaust survivor Nathan Leipciger will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 16. Nate will read from his<br />
memoir, <strong>The</strong> Weight <strong>of</strong> Freedom, published by the<br />
Azrieli Foundation. Copies are generously provided<br />
by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available for<br />
author signing following the program.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Gottesman family<br />
in memory <strong>of</strong> Carol and Herman Gottesman.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
North York Central Library<br />
5120 Yonge Street | Toronto<br />
416–395–5784<br />
Polish Holocaust survivor Howard Kleinberg will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
Howard Kleinberg was born in the village <strong>of</strong><br />
Wierzbnik, Poland and was raised in a traditional,<br />
observant home. By October 1942, his life had<br />
changed forever. Before he had turned 20, Howard<br />
endured years <strong>of</strong> forced labour, hunger, hardship,<br />
cruelty, forced marches, as well as internment in<br />
several concentration camps. After liberation from<br />
Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, he learned that his<br />
parents, most <strong>of</strong> his relatives and friends had not<br />
survived.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Sanderson Library<br />
327 Bathurst St | Toronto<br />
416–393–7653<br />
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Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman Photography, 2010 & 2015.<br />
MEL GOLDBERG<br />
b. Poland 1942.<br />
Survived in hiding.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
ELLY GOTZ<br />
b. Lithuania 1928.<br />
Survived a ghetto,<br />
concentration<br />
and labour camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1964.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 41, 47.<br />
PINCHAS GUTTER<br />
b. Poland 1932.<br />
Survived a ghetto,<br />
work, concentration<br />
and death camps<br />
as well as a death<br />
march. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1985.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 19, 22, 23.<br />
DENISE HANS<br />
b. France 1938. Survived<br />
in hiding in a convent.<br />
Immigrated to Canada 1956.<br />
Programs: see pages 39, 41.<br />
MAGDA HILF<br />
b. Czechoslovakia<br />
1921. Survived a ghetto,<br />
slave labour and death<br />
camps as well as a death<br />
march. Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1953. Programs:<br />
see page 41.<br />
LOU HOFFER<br />
b. Romania 1927. Survived<br />
concentration camps in<br />
Transnistria. Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
NANCY & HOWARD KLEINBERG<br />
b. Poland 1925. Survived forced<br />
labour and concentration camps.<br />
Immigrated to Canada 1947.<br />
Programs: see pages 36, 41.<br />
MARK LANE<br />
b. Czechoslovakia 1929.<br />
Survived death camps<br />
and a forced death<br />
march. Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1951. Programs:<br />
see pages 32, 36.<br />
MANNY LANGER<br />
b. Poland 1929.<br />
Survived a ghetto,<br />
forced labour,<br />
concentration<br />
and death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1951.<br />
Programs: see<br />
page 32.<br />
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JOE (JOSEPH) LEINBURD<br />
b. Romania 1922. Survived<br />
camps in Transnistria.<br />
Immigrated to Canada 1949.<br />
Programs: see pages 35, 36.<br />
NATE LEIPCIGER<br />
b. Poland 1928. Survived a<br />
ghetto, concentration and<br />
death camps. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1948. Programs:<br />
see pages 16, 19, 36, 51.<br />
FAIGIE (SCHMIDT) LIBMAN<br />
b. Lithuania 1934. Survived<br />
a ghetto, concentration<br />
and slave labour camps.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1948. Programs: see pages<br />
18, 39, 41, 45.<br />
Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman Photography, 2010 & 2015.<br />
ROSE LIPSZYC<br />
b. Poland 1929. Survived<br />
under a false identity.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1952. Programs: see<br />
pages 41.<br />
JUDY LYSY<br />
b. Czechoslovakia<br />
1928. Survived<br />
slave labour and<br />
death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1952.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 39, 41.<br />
MARTIN MAXWELL<br />
b. Austria 1924.<br />
Survived by escaping<br />
on a Kindertransport;<br />
returned on D-Day,<br />
was wounded and<br />
captured. Immigrated<br />
to Canada<br />
1952. Programs: see<br />
page 41.<br />
EVA MEISELS<br />
b. Hungary 1939.<br />
Survived in the<br />
Budapest Ghetto,<br />
a safe house and<br />
with false papers.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1956.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 32, 41, 43.<br />
LESLIE MEISELS<br />
b. Hungary 1927.<br />
Survived ghettos,<br />
slave labour and<br />
concentration<br />
camps. Immigrated<br />
to Canada<br />
1967. Programs:<br />
see pages 19, 39,<br />
41, 45.<br />
ANDY RÉTI<br />
b. Hungary 1942.<br />
Survived in the<br />
Budapest Ghetto.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1956.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 35, 36, 41.<br />
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Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Faigie Libman will<br />
speak about her personal experiences during the<br />
Holocaust. Faigie Libman (née Schmidt) was born<br />
in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1934. In 1941, she and her<br />
family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto. When<br />
the ghetto was liquidated in 1944, her father was<br />
taken to Dachau, where he was murdered. Faigie<br />
and her mother were transferred—first to Stutth<strong>of</strong>,<br />
then to three slave labour camps—before they<br />
were liberated by the Soviet Army. <strong>The</strong>y immigrated<br />
to Canada in 1948.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Annette Street Library<br />
145 Annette Street | Toronto<br />
416–393–7692<br />
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Judy Lysy will<br />
speak about her personal experience during the<br />
Holocaust. Judy Lysy was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia,<br />
in 1928. She lived with her parents, sister<br />
and grandmother. In March 1944, Judy and her<br />
family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and<br />
from there to various slave labour camps. She was<br />
liberated in May 1945 by the US Army. She immigrated<br />
to Canada from Venezuela in 1952 with her<br />
husband and daughter.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Ansley Grove Library<br />
350 Ansley Grove Rd | Woodbridge<br />
905–653–7323<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Leslie Meisels will<br />
speak about his personal experiences during the<br />
Holocaust. Leslie Meisels was born in Nádudvar,<br />
Hungary in 1927. He lived with his parents, two<br />
brothers and both sets <strong>of</strong> grandparents. He survived<br />
the ghettos in Nádudvar and Debrecen, slave<br />
labour in Austria and the eventual deportation<br />
to Bergen-Belsen. He was liberated in April 1945<br />
by the 9th US Army from a death train. His mother,<br />
father and both brothers also survived. Leslie<br />
immigrated to Canada in 1967. Copies <strong>of</strong> Suddenly<br />
the Shadow Fell are published by and generously<br />
provided by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available<br />
for author signing following the program.<br />
Thursday, 10 <strong>November</strong> | 10:00 AM<br />
Caledon Public Library<br />
150 Queen Street South | Caledon<br />
905–857–1400<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gradual Instant:<br />
A Conversation with<br />
Anne Michaels<br />
How will the future remembrance <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
be created? Acclaimed poet and novelist Anne<br />
Michaels will be interviewed by Joseph Kertes,<br />
an award-winning author and the founding Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Humber School for Writers and <strong>The</strong> Humber<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Comedy. Books will be available for purchase<br />
and author signing following the program.<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Bonnie & Larry Moncik<br />
and Eleanor & George Getzler and families in loving<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> their parents, Abraham and Ida Moncik.<br />
Thursday, 10 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Richmond Hill Central Library<br />
1 Atkinson Street | Richmond Hill<br />
905–884–9288<br />
French Holocaust survivor Denise Hans will speak<br />
about her personal experiences during the Holocaust.<br />
Denise Hans was born in Paris, France in 1938. In<br />
1942, after her father, aunt and uncle were taken<br />
from her home and murdered, her mother sought<br />
places to hide her six children and two nieces.<br />
Denise was hidden twice with farmers and then in<br />
a convent. She and two sisters stayed there until<br />
1948, when they were reunited with their mother<br />
and siblings. Denise immigrated to Canada in 1956.<br />
Monday, 14 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM<br />
Jane/Dundas Library<br />
620 Jane Street | Toronto<br />
416–394–1014<br />
<strong>The</strong> Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre<br />
was founded as the Holocaust Education<br />
and Memorial Centre in 1985. We gratefully<br />
acknowledge the contributions <strong>of</strong> the<br />
dedicated Holocaust survivor educators,<br />
not pictured, who established this museum<br />
and worked to fulfill its mission throughout<br />
the past 30 years. We continue your work<br />
in your names.<br />
George Berman, Felix Brand, Irene Csillag,<br />
Anne Eidlitz, John Freund, Mendel Good,<br />
Rosalind Goldenberg, Jerry Kapelus, Chava<br />
Kwinta, Freda Rosenblatt, Cypora Schneider,<br />
Helen Schwartz, George Scott, Samuel Shene,<br />
and Sally Wasserman.<br />
z”l<br />
Bronia Beker, Esther Bem, Marian Domanski,<br />
Robert Engel, Mike Englishman, Arnold<br />
Friedman, Herb Goldstein, Ibolya Grossman,<br />
Elisabeth de Jong, Moishe Kantorowitz,<br />
Joseph Kichler, Max Kingston, Bronka Krygier,<br />
Wanda Lerek, Alexander Levin, George Lysy,<br />
Anita Mayer, Henry Melnick, Fanny Pillersdorf,<br />
Robert Rosen, Freda Rosenblatt, Judith<br />
Rubinstein, George Salamon, Magda Schullerer,<br />
Hanneliese Schusheim-Beigel, Peter Silverman,<br />
Yael Spier Cohen, Inge Spitz, Ann Szedlecki,<br />
Dennis Urstein, Ernst Weiss, Robert Weiss,<br />
Nechemia Wurman, Ada Wynston, Etty Zigler,<br />
David Zuckerbrot<br />
IN MEMORIAM 2015–16<br />
Alex Levin was born in Rokitno (Volyn),<br />
Poland, in 1932. He survived a massacre<br />
at the Rokitno Ghetto where his parents<br />
and younger brother were murdered. He<br />
managed to escape into the forest with<br />
his older brother. He was liberated by the<br />
Soviet Army in 1944 and immigrated to<br />
Canada in 1975. His memoir, Under the<br />
Yellow and Red Stars, received the 2010<br />
Pearson Prize Teen Choice Award. He<br />
passed away on June 14, 2016.<br />
Yael Spier Cohen was born in Hesse,<br />
Germany, in 1929. In 1942, she was deported<br />
with her parents and brother to the <strong>The</strong>resienstadt<br />
concentration camp. In 1944,<br />
the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz-Birkenau,<br />
along with her parents, who were murdered<br />
in the gas chambers. Yael was transferred<br />
to slave labour at an ammunition factory.<br />
She was liberated on May 5, 1945, from<br />
Mauthausen, and was the only survivor in<br />
her family. She moved to Israel in 1945, and<br />
then later immigrated to Canada in 1952.<br />
She passed away on February 19, 2016.<br />
Inge Spitz was born in Potsdam, Germany<br />
in 1927, where she lived with her parents<br />
and her sister. After Kristallnacht, her father<br />
escaped, but her mother was deported<br />
to Riga in 1941. Inge and her sister left for<br />
France with a transport <strong>of</strong> Berlin Jews<br />
escaping Germany. In 1944, Inge led a<br />
group <strong>of</strong> children escaping to Switzerland.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spitz family survived and reunited in<br />
England. Inge and her husband immigrated<br />
to Canada in 1948. She passed away on<br />
<strong>November</strong> 13, 2015.<br />
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SALLY ROSEN<br />
b. Poland 1929.<br />
Survived a ghetto,<br />
concentration and<br />
death camps.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
VERA SCHIFF<br />
b. Czechoslovakia 1926.<br />
Survived a concentration<br />
camp. Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1961. Programs:<br />
see pages 41, 46.<br />
FAYE SCHULMAN<br />
b. Poland 1919.<br />
Survived a ghetto<br />
and in the forest<br />
with partisans.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1948.<br />
Survivor portraits by Elliott Sylman, Sylman Photography, 2010 & 2015.<br />
LEONARD VIS<br />
b. Holland 1930.<br />
Survived in hiding.<br />
Immigrated to<br />
Canada 1967.<br />
Programs: see<br />
pages 35, 41.<br />
LENKA WEKSBERG<br />
b. Czechoslovakia 1926.<br />
Survived a ghetto, slave<br />
labour, a death camp<br />
and a death march.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1953. Programs: see<br />
page 41.<br />
GERSHON WILLINGER<br />
b. Holland 1942.<br />
Survived in hiding<br />
and concentration<br />
camps. Immigrated<br />
to Canada 1977.<br />
Programs: see pages<br />
35, 41, 46.<br />
HELEN YERMUS<br />
b. Lithuania 1932. Survived<br />
a ghetto and concentration<br />
camp. Immigrated to Canada<br />
1948. Programs: see pages<br />
41, 42.<br />
ROMAN ZEIGLER<br />
b. Poland 1927.<br />
Survived slave labour<br />
and death camps.<br />
Immigrated to Canada<br />
1948.<br />
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closed school programs<br />
We gratefully acknowledge the participation <strong>of</strong><br />
GTA schools from diverse school boards and backgrounds<br />
during Holocaust Education Week. We<br />
thank them for their ongoing commitment to Holocaust<br />
education for students. Many <strong>of</strong> these programs<br />
feature first-person Holocaust survivor<br />
testimony from a speaker in the “in conversation”<br />
dialogue format, designed for students. <strong>The</strong>se programs<br />
are not open to the public.<br />
Anne Frank Public School<br />
In Conversation with Lenka Weksberg<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Doris &<br />
Rammy Rochman in memory <strong>of</strong> the victims<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust.<br />
Arrowsmith School<br />
& Timothy Eaton Memorial Church<br />
Remembrance Day Ceremony with Felicia Carmelly<br />
A.Y. Jackson S.S.<br />
In Conversation with Bill Glied<br />
Bakersfield Public School<br />
In Conversation with Rose Lipszyc<br />
Bialik Hebrew Day School<br />
In Conversation with Martin Maxwell<br />
Bishop Strachan School<br />
In Conversation with Bill Glied<br />
Blessed Cardinal Newman C.H.S.<br />
In Conversation with Sally Wasserman<br />
Branksome Hall<br />
In Conversation with Eva Meisels<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Roslyn<br />
& Ralph Halbert.<br />
Cedarvale Community School<br />
In Conversation with Magda Hilf<br />
Centrepoint Learning Centre<br />
In Conversation with Martin Maxwell<br />
Christ the King Catholic Secondary School<br />
In Conversation with Martin Maxwell<br />
Crescent School<br />
In Conversation with Gerda Frieberg<br />
ÉSC Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel<br />
Témoignage de Muguette Myers, auteure des<br />
mémoires Les Lieux du courage<br />
Parrainé par la Fondation Azrieli.<br />
Earl Grey SPS<br />
In Conversation with Martin Maxwell<br />
East York C.I.<br />
Remembering and Acts <strong>of</strong> Kindness: Magda Hilf<br />
Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary<br />
School<br />
In Conversation with Miriam Frankel<br />
Glenforest Secondary School<br />
In Conversation with Amek Adler<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Anita Ekstein and<br />
family in loving memory <strong>of</strong> Frank Ekstein.<br />
Goodwin Learning Centre<br />
In Conversation with Andy Réti<br />
Greenwood College School<br />
In Conversation with Gerda Frieberg<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Lorraine & Alan<br />
Sandler in memory <strong>of</strong> 1.5 million Jewish children<br />
who were murdered in the Holocaust.<br />
Kenton Learning Centre<br />
In Conversation with Faigie Libman<br />
King Christian School<br />
In Conversation with Helen Yermus<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Circle <strong>of</strong> Care.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Leo Baeck Day School - South Campus<br />
(Kimel Family Chapel)<br />
In Conversation with Faigie Libman<br />
<strong>The</strong> Linden School<br />
In Conversation with Howard Kleinberg<br />
Louis-Honoré Fréchette School<br />
Hidden Gold with author Ella Burakowski<br />
Maple High School<br />
In Conversation with Judy Lysy<br />
Mother Teresa Catholic Elementary School<br />
In Conversation with Leonard Vis<br />
Netivot HaTorah Day School<br />
In Conversation with Esther Fairbloom<br />
Northern Secondary School<br />
In Conversation with Gerda Frieberg and Elly Gotz<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Roslyn & Ralph Halbert.<br />
Peoples Christian Academy<br />
In Conversation with Felicia Carmelly<br />
Royal St. George’s College<br />
In Conversation with Rose Lipszyc<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Guido Smit in tribute<br />
to Jan Smit, Righteous among the Nations.<br />
Sacred Heart High School Religious Studies<br />
Classes<br />
In Conversation with Esther Fairbloom<br />
Sir Richard Scott Catholic Elementary School<br />
In Conversation with Denise Hans<br />
Stephen Lewis Secondary School<br />
In Conversation with Leonard Vis<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Ernie Weiss<br />
Memorial Fund in loving memory <strong>of</strong> Ernie Weiss,<br />
who survived the Holocaust, and the entire family<br />
from Mád, Hungary, who did not.<br />
Stouffville Christian School<br />
In Conversation with Faigie Libman<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Lily & Daniel Kim in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> her grandparents in British Columbia;<br />
and in memory <strong>of</strong> Ada Wynston, without whom<br />
Christian-Jewish Dialogue Toronto wouldn’t have<br />
been possible.<br />
Thornhill Woods Public School<br />
In Conversation with Gershon Willinger<br />
Toronto French School<br />
In Conversation with Bill Glied<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Erika Biro in memory<br />
<strong>of</strong> George Biro.<br />
Westmount Collegiate<br />
In Conversation with Eva Meisels<br />
William Lyon Mackenzie CI<br />
In Conversation with Vera Schiff<br />
<strong>The</strong> Woodlands Secondary School<br />
In Conversation with Miriam Frankel<br />
Ulpanat Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Woman in Gold & Hannah Lessing<br />
Generously co-sponsored by the Frankel Family<br />
Foundation, in loving memory <strong>of</strong> Miriam Frankel’s<br />
parents, sisters and brother.<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Toronto - Mississauga, Women and<br />
Gender Studies Program<br />
Women and the Holocaust<br />
Judy Weissenberg Cohen<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Circle <strong>of</strong> Care.<br />
Upper Canada College<br />
Student Program<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Nita Wexler in<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> her parents, Sidney & Norma Fromer;<br />
and by Hartley Hershenhorn in memory <strong>of</strong> his<br />
father, Kelly Hershenhorn, and in honour <strong>of</strong> his<br />
mother, Zelda Hershenhorn.<br />
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Education with Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Doris Bergen<br />
Generously co-sponsored by Nili & Paul Ekstein<br />
and Shelley & Steven Ekstein in memory <strong>of</strong> Mordechai<br />
& Hilda Stern and members <strong>of</strong> their family.<br />
<strong>The</strong> York School<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>: Journeys <strong>of</strong> Past<br />
and Present with Dylan Wagman & Jacob S<strong>of</strong>er<br />
and Holocaust survivor Leslie Meisels<br />
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community programs<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the greatest strengths <strong>of</strong> Neuberger HEW<br />
is the city-wide participation in presenting and<br />
attending community programs. <strong>The</strong> Neuberger is<br />
grateful for this broad commitment to Holocaust<br />
Education Week and is pleased to list these independent<br />
programs on the following pages <strong>of</strong> the<br />
HEW printed program and online guide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> views expressed by any presenter are their<br />
own and do not represent the views <strong>of</strong> the Sarah<br />
and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre,<br />
its funders, or UJA Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Neuberger is proud to present the annual<br />
Holocaust Education Week in a region with<br />
widespread interest in and support for ongoing<br />
Holocaust education.<br />
Last Folio: Yuri Dojc<br />
Time stood still in a small Jewish village in Slovakia<br />
until nearly 10 years ago when Canadian photographer<br />
Yuri Dojc returned. He visited a local Jewish<br />
school which had been locked since 1943. Decaying<br />
books on dusty shelves, the last witnesses <strong>of</strong> a<br />
once thriving culture, are treated by Dojc like the<br />
survivors that they each are—every one captured<br />
as a portrait, speaking a thousand words.<br />
Presented by the Art Gallery <strong>of</strong> Hamilton.<br />
EXHIBIT ON VIEW 22 October 2016–14 May 2017<br />
Art Gallery <strong>of</strong> Hamilton<br />
123 King Street West | Hamilton<br />
905–527–6610 | artgallery<strong>of</strong>hamilton.com<br />
Gruber’s Journey<br />
(Călătoria lui Gruber)<br />
This 2008 Romanian film centres on Italian writer<br />
Curzio Malaparte, a member <strong>of</strong> the Italian Fascist<br />
Party. Fighting in Eastern Europe, Malaparte suffers<br />
an allergic reaction and desperately seeks the<br />
medical aid <strong>of</strong> Dr. Josef Gruber in Iaşi. During his<br />
search for the missing Jewish doctor, he witnesses<br />
shocking atrocities against the Jews in the city.<br />
Co-presented by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong><br />
Romania in Toronto and Glendon College.<br />
Sunday, 30 October | 2:00 PM<br />
Glendon College<br />
2275 Bayview Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–585–2444<br />
Aliyah DaDa—the Holocaust<br />
in Romania<br />
Aliyah DaDa (2015, directed by Oana Giurgiu) is<br />
a Dadaist-style documentary about the Jewish<br />
people in Romania and their several migrations to<br />
Israel. <strong>The</strong> documentary sets out on a journey to<br />
uncover the reality <strong>of</strong> Romanian Jews’ aliyah told<br />
across history and in changing political times.<br />
Co-presented by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong><br />
Romania in Toronto and Glendon College.<br />
Sunday, 30 October | 5:00 PM<br />
Glendon College<br />
2275 Bayview Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–585–2444<br />
Servants <strong>of</strong> God<br />
<strong>The</strong> Museum <strong>of</strong> Poles Saving Jews in World War II<br />
opened in Markowa, southeastern Poland, in March<br />
2016. Its mission is to commemorate those who<br />
risked or lost their lives observing universal human<br />
values under Nazi persecution in Poland. <strong>The</strong> film<br />
Servants <strong>of</strong> God honours Josef and Wiktoria Ulma<br />
and other Righteous Among the Nations. Screening<br />
followed by the personal testimony <strong>of</strong> Polish Holocaust<br />
survivor Sally Wasserman, who was rescued<br />
by a Polish couple.<br />
Presented by Scarboro Missions.<br />
Tuesday, 1 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Scarboro Missions<br />
2685 Kingston Road | Scarborough<br />
416–261–7135<br />
Turkish Passport<br />
This public screening <strong>of</strong> Turkish Passport is followed<br />
by a conversation with a Holocaust survivor.<br />
Diplomats posted to Turkish embassies and consulates<br />
in several European countries actively<br />
sought to save Turkish Jews from the devastation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust. Turkish Passport recounts these<br />
acts <strong>of</strong> courage through extensive documentary<br />
research and interviews.<br />
Co-presented by the Intercultural Dialogue<br />
Institute GTA and Nile Academy.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 10:00 AM<br />
Nile Academy | 5 Blue Haven Crescent<br />
Toronto | 416–285–0115<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Helen Yermus will<br />
speak about her experiences during the Holocaust.<br />
Helen Yermus was born in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1932.<br />
She had to endure hardship, intimidation and fear<br />
in the Kovno Ghetto, where her brother was taken<br />
away and murdered. In 1944 the ghetto was liquidated,<br />
and her father was deported to Dachau,<br />
where he died <strong>of</strong> starvation. Helen and her mother<br />
were taken to the Stutth<strong>of</strong> concentration camp.<br />
Both survived the camp and immigrated to Canada<br />
together in 1948. At this interfaith program, Helen<br />
will speak to her experiences and lead a discussion<br />
on the Holocaust and the benefits <strong>of</strong> interfaith<br />
relations.<br />
Co-presented by Shaarei-Beth El Congregation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Oakville and St. Simon’s Anglican Church.<br />
Wednesday, 2 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
St. Simons Anglican Church<br />
1450 Litchfield Road | Oakville<br />
905–849–6000 × 11<br />
Cultural Rupture and<br />
Restitution: <strong>The</strong> Contested<br />
Fate <strong>of</strong> Plundered Eastern<br />
European Jewish Libraries<br />
and Archives<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Modern Jewish Studies, will focus on the theft and<br />
destruction <strong>of</strong> Jewish archives and libraries during<br />
the Holocaust, the complications <strong>of</strong> their recovery,<br />
reconstitution, preservation, and, ultimately, their<br />
interpretation by generations distant from prewar<br />
Jewish life.<br />
Presented by Temple Emanu-El.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Temple Emanu-El | 120 Old Colony Road<br />
Toronto | 416–449–3880<br />
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Remembering Resistance<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the more successful resistance groups in <strong>The</strong><br />
Netherlands was the Westerweel Group, which rescued<br />
some 250 Jewish youth. What characterized<br />
its members? What was involved in this rescue effort?<br />
Guido Smit was born in a kibbutz. His Jewish mother<br />
fled from Germany to Holland a few weeks before<br />
the Second World War broke out. His father, Jan Smit,<br />
was a member <strong>of</strong> the Westerweel Group. In 1964,<br />
Jan Smit was recognized as one Yad Vashem’s Righteous<br />
among the Nations.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic Church<br />
1300 Leslie Street | Toronto | 416–447–5571<br />
Aktion T4—the Nazi<br />
“Euthanasia” Program<br />
Framed as a euthanasia program, Aktion T4 was<br />
a Nazi initiative that identified and exterminated<br />
people with mental, physical and developmental<br />
disabilities at killing centres, which were a precursor<br />
to the death camps. This interactive session<br />
teaches how a government used the medical establishment,<br />
bolstered by propaganda and legislation,<br />
to convince its population that some people were<br />
“unworthy <strong>of</strong> living.” It will link memories <strong>of</strong> the past<br />
with current experiences and atrocities. Presenters:<br />
Alanna Sheinberg, Nicole Lipsey & Ellen Rajzman.<br />
Presented by Reena Community Residence.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Reena Community Residence<br />
49 Lebovic Campus Drive | Vaughan<br />
905–889–6484<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Eva Meisels will<br />
speak about her personal experiences during the<br />
Holocaust. For her bio, see page 32. Copies <strong>of</strong><br />
Suddenly the Shadow Fell are published by and<br />
generously provided by the Azrieli Foundation and<br />
will be available for author signing following<br />
the program. A short video, Holocaust Lessons for<br />
Humanity, will also be screened. Refreshments<br />
will be served. This program is open to all ages.<br />
Co-presented by the Aurora United Church.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Trinity Anglican Church<br />
79 Victoria Street | Aurora<br />
905–727–1935<br />
De la clandestinité à<br />
l’immigration au Canada:<br />
le destin d’une enfant cachée<br />
Née en 1931 à Paris, Muguette Myers est l’auteure<br />
des mémoires Les Lieux du courage publiés au<br />
printemps 2016 par la Fondation Azrieli.<br />
Lors d’une rencontre-discussion, Muguette<br />
témoignera de cette période sombre, rendant<br />
hommage au courage sans faille de sa mère<br />
et des habitants de Champlost, jusqu’à son immigration<br />
au Canada au lendemain de la guerre.<br />
Elle sera accompagnée par Antoine Burgard<br />
qui termine actuellement sa thèse de doctorat<br />
en histoire, portant sur l’immigration des jeunes<br />
survivants de l’Holocauste au Canada dans<br />
l’immédiat après-guerre. Des exemplaires des<br />
mémoires seront gracieusement <strong>of</strong>ferts par la<br />
Fondation Azrieli à la suite du programme, pour<br />
être dédicacés par l’auteure.<br />
Co-parrainée par la Fondation Azrieli.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Alliance française Toronto<br />
24 Spadina Road | Toronto<br />
416–922–2014 or 514–282–1155<br />
BESA: <strong>The</strong> Promise<br />
More than seven years in the making, Besa: the<br />
Promise presents a powerful human drama compounded<br />
by a devastating twist. It is a story that<br />
bridges generations and religions, uniting fathers<br />
and sons, Muslims and Jews.<br />
Presented by the Noor Cultural Centre.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Noor Cultural Centre | 123 Wynford Drive<br />
Toronto | 416–444–7148<br />
Soviet Jewish <strong>Memory</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Encountering Perpetrators <strong>of</strong><br />
the Holocaust<br />
Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Associate<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Yiddish Studies and the director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Toronto. Shternshis is the author <strong>of</strong><br />
Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the<br />
Soviet Union, 1923–1939. She will speak about the<br />
memories <strong>of</strong> the Soviet Army during the liberation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the death camps. Books will be available for<br />
purchase and author signing following the program.<br />
Presented by Beth Sholom Synagogue.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beth Sholom Synagogue<br />
1445 Eglinton Avenue West | Toronto<br />
416–783–6103<br />
<strong>The</strong> Real Inglorious Bastards<br />
<strong>The</strong> story <strong>of</strong> Operation Greenup, when two young<br />
Jewish emigrants and a Wehrmacht <strong>of</strong>ficer parachuted<br />
one perilous winter night into the Austrian<br />
Alps, risking their lives to strike back at Nazi Germany.<br />
Screening followed by discussion with the<br />
film’s producer and a family member <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
film’s subjects who fought the Nazis. This program<br />
addresses questions <strong>of</strong> how “the future <strong>of</strong> memory”<br />
is created through technology and narrative.<br />
Co-presented by the Oraynu Congregation for<br />
Humanistic Judaism and Don Heights Unitarian<br />
Congregation.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Don Heights Unitarian Congregation<br />
18 Wynford Drive | Toronto<br />
416–854–0133<br />
For program changes visit:<br />
holocausteducationweek.com<br />
or call 416–631–5689.<br />
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Talking About the Holocaust<br />
with Our Children<br />
How do we answer our children’s questions about<br />
the Holocaust and make it accessible and relevant<br />
to them? How young is too young to begin the discussion,<br />
and how do we ensure the memory <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Holocaust be passed onto the next generation?<br />
Award-winning author Kathy Kacer will share her<br />
knowledge and experience as we navigate through<br />
this difficult but important journey as parents and<br />
educators. Books will be available for purchase and<br />
author signing following the program.<br />
Presented by Robbins Hebrew Academy.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Robbins Hebrew Academy<br />
1700 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–781–5658<br />
A Man <strong>of</strong> Conscience<br />
This documentary film recounts the thrilling story<br />
<strong>of</strong> Morris Saxe, a humanitarian who managed to<br />
bring 79 children from Poland to his farm school<br />
in Georgetown, Ontario in the 1920s. Saxe faced<br />
difficulties both from the government and his own<br />
community yet persevered to save these children<br />
from the devastation <strong>of</strong> the Second World War.<br />
David Fleishman, Morris Saxe’s grandson, will<br />
introduce the film.<br />
Register at bethdavid.com or call 416–633–5500.<br />
Presented by Beth David Synagogue.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue<br />
55 Yeomans Road | Toronto<br />
416–633–5500<br />
Lessons <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust:<br />
An Author’s Presentation<br />
When Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Michael Marrus was a student, the<br />
Holocaust—the catastrophe <strong>of</strong> European Jewry—<br />
was hardly a footnote to the study <strong>of</strong> the Second<br />
World War. Now, it is seen as a foundational event<br />
<strong>of</strong> the 20th century. Who defines the lessons from<br />
the Second World War? Where do we look—to<br />
victims, perpetrators, others? Why do the lessons<br />
change over time? Books will be available for purchase<br />
and author signing following the program.<br />
Presented by Holy Blossom Temple.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Holy Blossom Temple<br />
1950 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–789–3291<br />
<strong>Memory</strong> in the Shadows<br />
Mitch Smolkin is the sole Canadian contributor to<br />
In the Shadows <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>: <strong>The</strong> Holocaust and the<br />
Third Generation, a collection <strong>of</strong> essays published in<br />
2016 by Valentine Mitchell Press. He will read from<br />
his chapter entitled “Strength in the Shadows: Shifting<br />
Perspectives on the Integrity <strong>of</strong> Intergenerational<br />
Healing,” a work focusing on the intergenerational<br />
transmission <strong>of</strong> trauma. He will also speak about<br />
current research into how we process and cope with<br />
traumatic experience. Books will be available for<br />
purchase and author signing following the program.<br />
Presented by Beth Radom Congregation.<br />
Thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beth Radom Congregation<br />
18 Reiner Road | Toronto | 416–636–3451<br />
Brundibar Revisited:<br />
Arts-Based Approaches to<br />
Holocaust Education<br />
This 2014 documentary follows a Berlin-based youth<br />
theatre group as it stages the opera Brundibar,<br />
which was performed more than 50 times by Jewish<br />
children in the <strong>The</strong>resienstadt ghetto. Accompanied<br />
by Greta Klingsberg, one <strong>of</strong> the few remaining<br />
survivors <strong>of</strong> the original cast, the young Germans<br />
travel to <strong>The</strong>resienstadt to learn about the terrors<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust, and the conditions in which the<br />
opera played an invaluable role (2014, English, 88<br />
minutes). Post-screening discussion facilitated by<br />
Dr. Belarie Zatzman.<br />
Presented by Prosserman JCC.<br />
thursday, 3 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Lipa Green Centre | 4600 Bathurst Street<br />
Toronto | 416–638–1881 × 4235<br />
<strong>The</strong> Dark Side <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong><br />
Lindsay Ann Cox will present her research on<br />
Christian-Jewish relations in this panel on the<br />
future <strong>of</strong> Holocaust education. She will outline<br />
challenges and possible solutions to understanding<br />
the Holocaust in the 21st century.<br />
Presented by Forest Hill United Church.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Forest Hill United Church | 2 Wembley Road<br />
Toronto | 416–737–8258<br />
<strong>The</strong> Power <strong>of</strong> Good<br />
This 2002 documentary tells the story <strong>of</strong> Nicholas<br />
Winton, who organized the Kindertransport rescue<br />
mission <strong>of</strong> 669 children from German-occupied<br />
Czechoslovakia on the eve <strong>of</strong> the Second World War.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM<br />
Hazelton Place Retirement Residence<br />
111 Avenue Road | Toronto | 416–928–0111<br />
<strong>Memory</strong> and Justice:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Armenian Genocide<br />
Raffi Sarkissian, founder and chair <strong>of</strong> the Sara<br />
Corning Centre for Genocide Education, will present<br />
about the importance <strong>of</strong> memory and justice<br />
and the challenges faced in remembering and<br />
commemorating the Armenian Genocide in the<br />
face <strong>of</strong> genocide denial and the passing <strong>of</strong> the<br />
surviving generation. This program takes place<br />
during Friday night services.<br />
Presented by Temple Kol Ami.<br />
Friday, 4 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Temple Kol Ami | 36 Atkinson Avenue<br />
Thornhill | 905–709–2620<br />
For program changes visit:<br />
holocausteducationweek.com<br />
or call 416–631–5689.<br />
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Holocaust Survivors in Israel<br />
Michael Maor will speak about Holocaust survivors<br />
in Israel, and efforts to bring Eichmann to justice<br />
in Israel. Maor spent his formative years fleeing for<br />
his life in Europe until his arrival in Israel in 1945.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, he served in many branches <strong>of</strong> the Israeli<br />
Army and Intelligence Services. <strong>The</strong> program occurs<br />
during Shabbat services, followed by a kiddush<br />
and Q & A. See p.46 for Michael Maor’s keynote.<br />
Presented by Pride <strong>of</strong> Israel Synagogue.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 9:00 AM<br />
(during Shabbat services)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pride <strong>of</strong> Israel Synagogue<br />
59 Lissom Crescent | Toronto | 416–226–0111<br />
To Unveil and Heal<br />
Jacquie Buncel is a poet and Holocaust educator.<br />
She will read from her collection, Turning the Corner<br />
at Dusk. She will explore her mother’s experience<br />
as a hidden child in France and her father’s story as<br />
a child survivor and orphan. <strong>The</strong> horror lives alongside<br />
altruism and resistance—a testimony to the<br />
strength <strong>of</strong> the human spirit. Jacquie will explore<br />
second generation learning, remembering and moving<br />
forward as part <strong>of</strong> the Shabbat service.<br />
Presented by Congregation Shir Libeynu.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 10:30 AM<br />
(SHABBAT MORNING SERVICE)<br />
MILES NADAL JCC<br />
750 Spadina Avenue | THIRD FLOOR<br />
Toronto | 416–465–5488<br />
Sustaining and<br />
Maintaining <strong>Memory</strong><br />
How can we meet the challenges <strong>of</strong> keeping the<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> the Shoah alive when the survivors<br />
pass away? Dr. Jack Lipinsky discusses the<br />
advantages and disadvantages <strong>of</strong> various print<br />
and electronic methods and the possible issues<br />
that may arise with changing the authenticity<br />
<strong>of</strong> survivor memories.<br />
Presented by Stashover Slipia Congregation.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 11:45 AM<br />
(during Shabbat services)<br />
Anshei Staszow-Slipi Congregation<br />
11 Sultana Avenue | Toronto | 416–787–5443<br />
Transforming the Grip<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>: A Workshop<br />
For those who are not Holocaust survivors, our formative<br />
experiences learning about the Holocaust<br />
shaped us deeply, in both constructive and traumatizing<br />
ways. This participatory workshop integrates<br />
theory and personal narratives, <strong>of</strong>fering tools to<br />
discern and heal the impact <strong>of</strong> these memories on<br />
our individual and collective identity, fears, creativity,<br />
relationships and sense <strong>of</strong> the possible. Workshop<br />
facilitator Rabbi Miriam Margles, rabbi <strong>of</strong><br />
Danforth Jewish Circle, earned an MTS from Harvard<br />
and a BFA from York University.<br />
Presented by First Narayever Congregation.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
First Narayever Congregation<br />
187 Brunswick Avenue<br />
Toronto | 416–927–0546<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Leslie Meisels will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 39. Copies <strong>of</strong> Suddenly the<br />
Shadow Fell are published by and generously provided<br />
by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available<br />
for author signing following the program.<br />
Presented by the Rock Community Church.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Rock Community Church<br />
249 Clarence Street | Woodbridge<br />
416–881–8200<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
This program will feature a short film, Toyland, a<br />
musical performance, and the personal testimony<br />
<strong>of</strong> Polish Holocaust survivor, Esther Fairbloom.<br />
Esther Fairbloom was born in the ghetto in Tarnopol,<br />
Poland, likely in 1941. When the Nazis began deporting<br />
Jews from the ghetto, her sister hid on a farm.<br />
Her mother asked the Mother Superior <strong>of</strong> the Catholic<br />
orphanage to hide six-month-old Esther. After<br />
the war, Esther learned that her parents had been<br />
killed. At the age <strong>of</strong> five, she was reunited with and<br />
adopted by an aunt and uncle. She immigrated to<br />
Canada ten years later.<br />
Presented by St. Timothy Presbyterian Church.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
St. Timothy Presbyterian Church<br />
106 Ravenscrest Drive | Toronto<br />
416–626–7789<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Faigie (Schmidt)<br />
Libman will speak about her experience during<br />
the Holocaust. Faigie Libman was born in Kovno,<br />
Lithuania, in 1934, an only child. In 1941, she and<br />
her family were forced into the Kovno Ghetto.<br />
When the ghetto was liquidated in 1944, her father<br />
was taken to Dachau, where he perished. Faigie<br />
and her mother were transferred—first to Stutth<strong>of</strong>,<br />
then to three slave labour camps—before they<br />
were liberated by the Soviet Army. <strong>The</strong>y immigrated<br />
to Canada in 1948. <strong>The</strong> program includes Hebrew<br />
songs and dances.<br />
Presented by Friends <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ, Canada.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Friends <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ, Canada<br />
181 Nugget Avenue | Scarborough<br />
416–605–7212<br />
Transmission <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong><br />
Scott Masters created the acclaimed Oral History<br />
Project at Crestwood College. His students learn<br />
about the events and atrocities <strong>of</strong> the Second World<br />
War and are encouraged to connect with a survivor<br />
<strong>of</strong> the era through home visits and visits to local<br />
hospitals and retirement homes. His multimedia<br />
approach is recognized as a useful pedagogical<br />
tool. Scott and some <strong>of</strong> his students will discuss<br />
the impact <strong>of</strong> their projects on their lives.<br />
This program is sponsored by Anne Zworth<br />
Holocaust Education Fund and presented by<br />
Temple Har Zion.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Temple Har Zion<br />
7360 Bayview Avenue | Thornhill<br />
905–889–2252<br />
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Musical Memories<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Vilna Ghetto<br />
A moving, bittersweet reflection on the rich cultural<br />
hub <strong>of</strong> the Vilna Ghetto, which gave birth to a unique<br />
wealth <strong>of</strong> songs about daily life, love, survival,<br />
bravery and resistance. Cantor Deborah Staiman<br />
will illuminate and chronicle life in the Vilna Ghetto<br />
through songs, including Vilne, Shtiler Shtiler, Friling,<br />
and recount the story <strong>of</strong> Shmerke Kaczerginski<br />
(1908–1954), Vilna poet, cultural activist, folklorist,<br />
partisan and eminent collector <strong>of</strong> Shoah songs,<br />
whose life was devoted to preserving memory. With<br />
pianist Asher Farber and violinist Jessica Deutsch.<br />
Presented by National Council <strong>of</strong> Jewish Women<br />
<strong>of</strong> Canada Toronto.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
National Council <strong>of</strong> Jewish Women<br />
<strong>of</strong> Canada Toronto<br />
4700 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–633–5100<br />
March <strong>of</strong> the Living:<br />
Passing the Torch <strong>of</strong><br />
Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong><br />
Since 1988, over 220,000 young people and Holocaust<br />
survivors have traveled to Poland and Israel<br />
on the March <strong>of</strong> the Living where they visited oncethriving<br />
sites <strong>of</strong> Jewish life. On Holocaust Remembrance<br />
Day, the students and survivors march from<br />
Auschwitz to Birkenau in memory <strong>of</strong> all victims <strong>of</strong><br />
Nazi genocide and against prejudice, intolerance<br />
and hate. <strong>The</strong> Canadian March <strong>of</strong> the Living Teen<br />
Choir will present songs performed on the trip, interspersed<br />
with touching Holocaust stories.<br />
Presented by St. Ansgar Lutheran Church.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
St. Ansgar Lutheran Church<br />
1498 Avenue Road | Toronto<br />
416–783–3570<br />
Bringing Eichmann to Justice<br />
Michael Maor will speak about the involvement<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Mossad in capturing and bringing Eichmann<br />
to trial in Israel. Maor spent his formative years<br />
fleeing for his life in Europe until his arrival in Israel<br />
in 1945, where he served in the Israeli Army and<br />
Intelligence Services.<br />
Presented by Congregation Bnai Torah.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 8:00 PM<br />
Congregation Bnai Torah<br />
465 Patricia Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–665–6651<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sound <strong>of</strong> Silent Voices<br />
This project allows student composers the opportunity<br />
to musically interpret poems written by<br />
children during the Holocaust. After each poem<br />
is read by Holocaust survivor Gershon Willinger,<br />
the Ton Beau String Quartet will perform a moving<br />
composition inspired by that poem. Rabbi<br />
Daniel Korobkin, senior rabbi at BAYT, will also<br />
participate. Dr. Zachary Ebin, artistic director,<br />
will introduce each poem and composer.<br />
Admission $20. Students $10. Register online<br />
at www.bayt.ca or at the door.<br />
Presented by Beth Avraham Yoseph <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
Congregation.<br />
Saturday, 5 <strong>November</strong> | 8:30 PM<br />
Beth Avraham Yoseph <strong>of</strong> Toronto<br />
Congregation | 613 Clark Avenue West<br />
Thornhill | 905–886–3810<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff<br />
(nee Katz) will speak about her experience during<br />
the Holocaust. Vera Schiff was born in Prague,<br />
Czechoslovakia, in 1926. In 1942 the entire Katz<br />
family was deported to <strong>The</strong>resienstadt, where all<br />
but Vera perished. She was liberated by the Soviet<br />
Army in May 1945. Vera is the author <strong>of</strong> the awardwinning<br />
<strong>The</strong>resienstadt: <strong>The</strong> Town the Nazis Gave to<br />
the Jews; Hitler’s Inferno: Eight Personal Histories<br />
from the Holocaust and Letters to Veruska.<br />
This program will be given in church (instead <strong>of</strong> the<br />
usual homily). Books will be available for purchase<br />
and author signing following the program.<br />
Co-presented by Thorncliffe Park Postoral Charge<br />
and Don Mills United Church.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 10:00 AM<br />
Thorncliffe Park United Church<br />
16 Thorncliffe Park Drive | Toronto<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ship to Nowhere:<br />
On Board the Exodus<br />
Rona Arato is the award-winning author <strong>of</strong> the<br />
children’s book <strong>The</strong> Last Train. Arato’s second book<br />
on the Holocaust, <strong>The</strong> Ship to Nowhere—On Board<br />
the Exodus, tells the story <strong>of</strong> 11-year-old Rachel<br />
Fletcher and her journey to Palestine. Books will be<br />
available for purchase and author signing following<br />
the program.<br />
Presented by Congregation Habonim.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 11:00 AM<br />
Congregation Habonim<br />
5 Glen Park Avenue | Toronto | 416–605–0850<br />
Hitler could not Destroy<br />
their <strong>Memory</strong>: <strong>The</strong> Yiddish<br />
Video Project<br />
זייער אָ נדענק איז ניט צו פֿ אַ רניכטן:<br />
דערוויסט זיך וועגן ייִדישע<br />
שרַײבערס און קינסטלערס אין<br />
באָ ריס סאַ נדלערס גרויסן ווידעאָ ־<br />
פּ ראָ יעקט<br />
Learn about the writers and artists <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
world’s most vibrant pre-Holocaust cultures—who<br />
they were and why they matter today. In his massive<br />
video project, Boris Sandler, editor emeritus <strong>of</strong><br />
the “Forverts,” brings to a new generation the lives,<br />
loves, arguments and streets that made Yiddish<br />
culture live. This lecture, including a screening <strong>of</strong> a<br />
few short films, will be in Yiddish. <strong>The</strong> films have<br />
English subtitles.<br />
Co-presented by the Committee for Yiddish UJA<br />
Federation <strong>of</strong> Greater Toronto, Toronto Workmen’s<br />
Circle/Arbeiter Ring, Friends <strong>of</strong> Yiddish.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 11:00 AM<br />
Toronto Workmen’s Circle<br />
471 Lawrence Avenue West | Toronto<br />
416–631–5702<br />
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We Polish Jews: <strong>The</strong> Troubled<br />
Holocaust Legacy <strong>of</strong> Julian<br />
Tuwim, 1894–1953<br />
Poet Julian Tuwim was among the first and most<br />
powerful literary voices <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust experience.<br />
Born in Lodz, Tuwim was a leading Polish-Jewish<br />
poet during the 1920–30s. In 1944, Tuwim wrote<br />
an anguished lament and manifesto <strong>of</strong> murdered<br />
Jewry, ‘We Polish Jews,’ as a refugee in New York.<br />
In Tuwim’s writing, identity, belonging, betrayal<br />
and memory coalesce in unexpected ways. This<br />
presentation will be given by Dr. Myer Siemiatycki,<br />
a pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the Department <strong>of</strong> Politics & Public<br />
Administration at Ryerson University. Books will be<br />
available for purchase and author signing following<br />
the program.<br />
Presented by Lodzer Centre Congregation.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Lodzer Centre Congregation<br />
12 Heaton Street | Toronto | 905–763–0554<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Lithuanian Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz will speak<br />
about his experience during the Holocaust. Elly Gotz<br />
was born in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1928. His father<br />
worked in a bank and his mother was a nurse. Beginning<br />
in 1941, Elly spent three years in the ghetto in<br />
Kovno and then one year in Dachau concentration<br />
camp, where he was liberated by the American army<br />
in 1945. After the war, he lived in Germany, Norway,<br />
Rhodesia and South Africa. Elly immigrated to<br />
Canada in 1964.<br />
Co-presented by the International Christian<br />
Embassy Jerusalem—Canada (ICEJ) and Catch<br />
the Fire Toronto.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Catch the Fire Airport Church<br />
272 Attwell Drive | Toronto<br />
647–232–5394<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Edward Fisch will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For his bio, see page 35. <strong>The</strong> program includes<br />
social media education that explores Holocaust<br />
memory.<br />
Presented by the BWG Diversity Action Group.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Bradford West Gwillimbury Library<br />
425 Holland Street West | Bradford<br />
416–825–1479<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Polish Holocaust survivor Amek Adler will speak<br />
about his experience during the Holocaust. Amek<br />
Adler was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1928 and grew<br />
up in Lodz. In 1939, his family escaped to Warsaw<br />
and then to Radom. In 1943, Amek was deported to<br />
Auschwitz-Birkenau, and from there was eventually<br />
shipped to Dachau, where his father and one brother<br />
perished. Amek was liberated on April 28, 1945 and<br />
immigrated to Canada in 1954. This is a free program<br />
for visitors to learn about the Holocaust and<br />
the importance <strong>of</strong> remembrance.<br />
Presented by Old Fort Erie.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Old Fort Erie | 350 Lakeshore Road<br />
Fort Erie | 905–871–0540<br />
Rock the Shtetl<br />
Rock the Shtetl honours the soulful music <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Jewish past with a contemporary sensibility. This<br />
program is based on a repertoire <strong>of</strong> Klezmer melodies<br />
and Yiddish songs, music that was intrinsic to<br />
Eastern European Jewish life before the Holocaust.<br />
Music is an important vehicle for keeping alive our<br />
collective memory <strong>of</strong> an aspect <strong>of</strong> the world that<br />
was and for bequeathing that memory to future<br />
generations.<br />
Presented by Revera–Forest Hill Place Retirement<br />
Residence.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 2:30 PM<br />
Revera–Forest Hill Place Retirement<br />
Residence | 645 Castlefield Avenue<br />
Toronto | 416–785–1511<br />
Samuel Bak:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Artist <strong>of</strong> Jewish Fate<br />
Samuel Bak was born in Vilna in 1933, on the eve<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust. Aged six when the Nazis invaded<br />
his world, his community, family and childhood<br />
were shattered. Through his art, Bak creates a visual<br />
language to tell and remind the world <strong>of</strong> its most<br />
desperate moments, by using symbols and asking<br />
questions. He lets the viewer decide how, if at<br />
all, to fix it. <strong>The</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> Tikkun Olam occupies Bak<br />
constantly. This program will be presented by<br />
Rouhama Danto.<br />
Presented by Shaarei Tefillah.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 2:30 PM<br />
Shaarei Tefillah Congregation<br />
3600 Bathurst Street<br />
Toronto | 416–787–1631<br />
Understanding the Impact <strong>of</strong><br />
the Holocaust on Descendants<br />
<strong>of</strong> Survivors<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wierzbniker Society’s Annual Memorial Program<br />
and candle-lighting ceremony will be combined<br />
with a presentation by Mitch Smolkin who will discuss<br />
how trauma can be transmitted across generations<br />
and read and perform from his writing. For<br />
more information, see p.44. Books will be available<br />
for purchase and author signing following the<br />
program.<br />
Co-presented by <strong>The</strong> Wierzbniker Society and<br />
Bialik Hebrew Day School.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 3:00 PM<br />
Bialik Hebrew Day School<br />
2760 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–485–3390<br />
For program changes visit:<br />
holocausteducationweek.com<br />
or call 416–631–5689.<br />
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Enemy <strong>of</strong> the Reich<br />
Film screening about Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim<br />
princess who became a spy for the British, was<br />
captured in France, and executed in Dachau. Raheel<br />
Raza will explore Noor Inayat Khan’s life during<br />
the Second World War.<br />
Presented by Muslims Facing Tomorrow.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM<br />
<strong>The</strong> Living Arts Centre<br />
4141 Living Arts Drive | Mississauga<br />
416–505–1613<br />
In Conversation with<br />
a Holocaust Survivor<br />
Romanian Holocaust survivor Felicia Carmelly will<br />
speak about her experience during the Holocaust.<br />
For her bio, see page 32. Copies <strong>of</strong> her book, Shattered!<br />
50 Years <strong>of</strong> Silence, History and Voices <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria, will be available<br />
for purchase and author signing following the<br />
program. Copies <strong>of</strong> her memoir, Across the Rivers<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong>, are published by and generously provided<br />
by the Azrieli Foundation.<br />
Presented by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong> Romania in<br />
Toronto.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM<br />
Consulate General <strong>of</strong> Romania in Toronto<br />
89 Don Mills Road, Unit 501<br />
Toronto | 416–585–2444<br />
<strong>The</strong> Last Mentsch<br />
After a lifetime <strong>of</strong> running from his past, an ageing<br />
German-Jewish Auschwitz survivor (Mario Adorf),<br />
joined by a young Turkish woman (Katharina Derr),<br />
sets out on a powerful journey to rediscover his<br />
roots. A moving and deeply human portrait <strong>of</strong> trauma,<br />
connection, and healing. Toronto premiere with<br />
guest speakers author/artist Bernice Eisenstein at<br />
4:00 pm and Rabbi Elyse Goldstein at 7:30 pm.<br />
$15 General Admission (including seniors); $10<br />
Young Adults (age 18–35). Box <strong>of</strong>fice opens one hour<br />
before the screening start time. All single tickets<br />
are cash sale only and subject to availability.<br />
Presented by the Toronto Jewish Film Society;<br />
co-presented by City Shul and Goethe-Institut<br />
Toronto.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM<br />
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre<br />
750 Spadina Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–924–6211<br />
Musicians in Exile<br />
Austrian concert flautist Ulrike Anton and pianist<br />
Anna Ronai perform a concert for flute and piano<br />
that features works by composers who were either<br />
forced into exile or murdered by the Nazi regime.<br />
Dr. Anton, a well known flautist and musicologist,<br />
will also speak about each composer.<br />
Co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 6:00 PM<br />
Melrose Community Church<br />
375 Melrose Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–785–1980<br />
”ובחרת בחיים...“<br />
שבוע הנצחת השואה בטורונטו ותכנית המפגש גאים<br />
להזמינכם למפגש מרגש עם מיכאל מאור.<br />
*המפגש יתקיים בשפה העברית<br />
Michael Maor will speak on the theme <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
survivors in Israel, and efforts to bring Eichmann to<br />
justice in Israel. This presentation will be in Hebrew.<br />
Presented by Hamifgash.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 6:00 PM<br />
Schwartz/Reisman Centre<br />
Community Volunteer Boardroom<br />
9600 Bathurst Street | Vaughan<br />
416–638–1881 × 4472 | GalyaS@srcentre.ca<br />
What Constitutes Genocide?<br />
Re-examining Rwanda,<br />
Burundi, and the Democratic<br />
Republic <strong>of</strong> Congo<br />
More than 6 million people have been killed in the<br />
Democratic Republic <strong>of</strong> Congo. Yet when we speak<br />
<strong>of</strong> genocide and Central Africa, most think Rwanda.<br />
Why? Burundi has seen the same kind <strong>of</strong> violence as<br />
Rwanda, but is considered a “civil war.” This panel<br />
will look at the differences in coverage and discuss<br />
the politics <strong>of</strong> genocide, which determines how<br />
things are seen as well as remembered.<br />
Presented by the United Jewish People’s Order<br />
(UJPO).<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Winchevsky Centre<br />
585 Cranbrooke Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–789–5502<br />
A Voice among the Silent: <strong>The</strong><br />
Legacy <strong>of</strong> James G. McDonald<br />
This documentary is the first to shine light on James<br />
McDonald’s remarkable efforts to warn the world<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hitler’s plan for the Jews. <strong>The</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Catholic<br />
immigrants, McDonald was one <strong>of</strong> the first Americans<br />
to meet Hitler in 1933. Shocked by Hitler’s<br />
threats, McDonald, as the League <strong>of</strong> Nations High<br />
Commissioner for Refugees, worked tirelessly to<br />
find safe havens for refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.<br />
Discussion with filmmaker Shuli Eshel to follow<br />
screening. DVDs available for purchase and signing.<br />
Co-presented by Beth Torah Congregation and<br />
Chenstochover Aid Society.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Beth Torah Congregation<br />
47 Glenbrook Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–782–4495<br />
Preserving Memories for<br />
<strong>Future</strong> Generations<br />
Holocaust survivors William Glied and Hedy Bohm<br />
together with March <strong>of</strong> the Living students discuss<br />
personal experiences during the Holocaust and the<br />
effect on young people so distant from the past.<br />
Bill Glied was born in Subotica, Serbia in 1930. He<br />
was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 along<br />
with his family. He was later transferred to the<br />
Dachau concentration camp in Germany and worked<br />
as a slave labourer. Bill was liberated by the US<br />
Army in April and immigrated to Canada as an<br />
orphan in 1947. For Hedy Bohm’s bio, see page 36.<br />
Sponsored by the Dr. Emil & Bessie Glaser<br />
Memorial Lecture.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Beth Tzedec Congregation<br />
1700 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–781–3511<br />
For program changes visit:<br />
holocausteducationweek.com<br />
or call 416–631–5689.<br />
48 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week
community programs<br />
Nobody was Interested,<br />
Nobody Asked<br />
Max Beer’s 2015 film explores the immigration history<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors who came to Montreal,<br />
their new lives here, and their reception by the local<br />
community. Screening followed by a discussion with<br />
the director, Max Beer.<br />
Presented by Beth Tikvah.<br />
Sunday, 6 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beth Tikvah Synagogue<br />
3080 Bayview Avenue | Toronto | 416–221–3433<br />
A Blind Hero: <strong>The</strong><br />
Love <strong>of</strong> Otto Weidt<br />
This powerful docudrama focuses on the little-known<br />
story <strong>of</strong> Otto Weidt, one <strong>of</strong> the Righteous Among<br />
the Nations at Yad Vashem. In 1943, when Berlin was<br />
declared “judenrein,” Weidt—who was deaf and<br />
nearly blind—risked his life to save the lives <strong>of</strong> dozens<br />
<strong>of</strong> his employees, most <strong>of</strong> whom were Jewish<br />
and also blind. Includes short pre-film lecture about<br />
disabilities and the Holocaust with Dr. Ge<strong>of</strong>frey<br />
Reaume.<br />
Presented by the Access and Inclusion<br />
Department and Active 55+ Program, Miles Nadal<br />
Jewish Community Centre.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM<br />
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre<br />
750 Spadina Avenue | Toronto | 416–924–6211<br />
UJA Young Leaders’<br />
Dinner <strong>of</strong> Miracles<br />
Opportunities are limited for Jewish young adults<br />
to interact with Holocaust survivors in a meaningful<br />
way. UJA Young Leaders’ Dinner <strong>of</strong> Miracles is<br />
a special moment for both groups to share a meal<br />
and experiences in an informal setting. Over a<br />
three-course dinner, join hundreds <strong>of</strong> young adults<br />
for the 12th annual evening <strong>of</strong> dialogue and interaction<br />
with Holocaust survivors. Featuring a keynote<br />
from Jennifer Teege, granddaughter <strong>of</strong> notorious<br />
Nazi commandant <strong>of</strong> Plaszow, Amon Goeth, and<br />
emceed by Jeanne Beker.<br />
Space is limited; registration required. $60 ticket<br />
includes three-course dinner, Kashruth observed.<br />
Register today at: www.ujaevents.com/registration/<br />
DOM2016. Tickets intended for those in their 20s<br />
and 30s. Business attire.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 6:30 PM<br />
Forest Hill Jewish Centre<br />
360 Spadina Road | Toronto<br />
lprag@ujafed.org | 416–635–2883 × 5374<br />
Helping the Jews in<br />
German-occupied Poland<br />
Aid to the Jewish people is one <strong>of</strong> the most important<br />
and discussed topics <strong>of</strong> the history <strong>of</strong> the German<br />
occupation <strong>of</strong> Poland during the Second World War.<br />
Five outstanding specialists in the field, Pr<strong>of</strong>essors<br />
Natalia Aleksiun, Samuel Kassow, Dariusz Stola,<br />
Paweł Śpiewak and Joshua Zimmerman, will<br />
explore the contested topic in a panel moderated<br />
by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Piotr Wróbel. Special attention will<br />
be given to Żegota, the clandestine Council for Aid<br />
to Jews.<br />
Co-presented by the Embassy <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong><br />
Poland in Canada, the Polish-Jewish Heritage<br />
Foundation <strong>of</strong> Canada and Konstanty Reynert Chair<br />
<strong>of</strong> Polish History at the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto; with<br />
support from Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish<br />
Studies and Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust Studies at the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
George Ignatieff <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
U <strong>of</strong> T | 15 Devonshire Place Toronto<br />
416–575–3420<br />
Testimony<br />
Staged reading <strong>of</strong> a new play about a man whose<br />
survivor mother committed suicide years earlier and<br />
his refusal to come to terms with it. His daughter,<br />
who works as an archivist <strong>of</strong> survivor testimonies,<br />
tries to understand his reticence to accept his mother’s<br />
suicide and his indifference towards Holocaust<br />
remembrance as a whole. Featuring dramatized<br />
monologues written by Medina members recalling<br />
stories <strong>of</strong> family members’ experiences with the<br />
Holocaust.<br />
Co-presented by the Medina <strong>The</strong>atre Ensemble.<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Temple Sinai | 210 Wilson Avenue<br />
Toronto | 647–977–6015<br />
Return to the Hiding Place<br />
When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland during<br />
the Second World War, a group <strong>of</strong> youth fought<br />
to save the lives <strong>of</strong> the innocent. Return to the<br />
Hiding Place recounts Corrie ten Boom’s army <strong>of</strong><br />
untrained teenagers who navigated a deadly labyrinth<br />
<strong>of</strong> challenges to rescue the Jewish people in<br />
one <strong>of</strong> history’s most famous dramas (2014, English,<br />
1 hour 42 minutes).<br />
Co-presented by St. Gabriel’s Passionist Parish<br />
and the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem–<br />
Canada (ICEJ).<br />
Monday, 7 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
St Gabriel’s Passionist Parish<br />
670 Sheppard Avenue East | Toronto<br />
416–221–8866<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fourth Generation: How<br />
Holocaust <strong>Memory</strong> is Changing<br />
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
Studies at the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto, and author<br />
<strong>of</strong> numerous books and articles on religion, ethnicity<br />
and gender in the Second World War, Dr. Doris<br />
Bergen will talk about this year’s Holocaust Education<br />
Week theme with a focus on how Holocaust<br />
memory is changing. Admission by advance reservation<br />
only ($20) by <strong>November</strong> 4. Lunch at 12:00<br />
noon; Lecture at 12:40 p.m.<br />
Lunch ‘N Learn presented by Beth Tikvah.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 12:00 PM<br />
Beth Tikvah Synagogue<br />
3080 Bayview Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–221–3433 × 316<br />
Our Responsibility<br />
to Remember<br />
Looking to the future, how will we take responsibility<br />
for new generations learning about the victims<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holocaust? How will they hear the personal<br />
stories <strong>of</strong> those who survived? Through selected<br />
video clips and student projects, this program will<br />
explore how artistic skills, photography, and new<br />
technologies are being used to carry forward the<br />
visual and auditory memories <strong>of</strong> victims and survivors<br />
<strong>of</strong> genocide. Selected materials will be on<br />
display, including items from the John and Molly<br />
Pollock Holocaust Collection.<br />
Presented by the Centennial College Libraries<br />
with the School <strong>of</strong> Advancement and the Centre for<br />
Global Citizenship, Education and Inclusion.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Centennial College | 941 Progress Avenue<br />
Toronto | 416–289–5000<br />
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community programs<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong><br />
This program features the students <strong>of</strong> Crestwood<br />
Preparatory College and their instructor, Scott<br />
Masters, discussing their decade-long project to<br />
interview Holocaust survivors, interspersed with<br />
video clips. For a complete description, see p. 45.<br />
Presented by Baycrest.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Baycrest | Jacob Family <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
3560 Bathurst Street | Toronto<br />
416–785–2500 × 2271<br />
What Has the Holocaust<br />
Taught Us? 71 Years Later<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Jacques Kornberg will give a 50-minute<br />
lecture on what we have learned from the Holocaust<br />
after seventy-one years. His lecture will be followed<br />
by short reflections given by expert commentators.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program concludes with time for audience<br />
questions.<br />
Presented by the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto,<br />
Regis College.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 4:30 PM<br />
Regis College | Chapel<br />
100 Wellesley Street West | Toronto<br />
416–922–5474<br />
Rock the Shtetl<br />
With Jonno Lightstone. See p. 47 for description<br />
<strong>of</strong> this musical program.<br />
Presented by Kensington Place Retirement<br />
Residence.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 6:30 PM<br />
Kensington Place Retirement Residence<br />
866 Sheppard Avenue West | Toronto<br />
416–636–9555<br />
Unheard Voices from the<br />
Asia-Pacific War<br />
ALPHA Education has been working hard to preserve<br />
the memories <strong>of</strong> the Asia-Pacific War, but<br />
there are still too many unheard experiences that<br />
leave gaps in our historical consciousness today.<br />
To bridge the gaps, youth will share how they carry<br />
the responsibility <strong>of</strong> remembrance through oral<br />
history projects and digital archive initiatives. <strong>The</strong><br />
future <strong>of</strong> the Asia-Pacific War memories lies with<br />
their engagement. Books will be available for purchase<br />
and author signing following the program.<br />
Co-presented by ALPHA Education and the Equity<br />
Studies Program at New College.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 6:30 PM<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Toronto | New College<br />
William Doo Auditorium<br />
45 Willcocks Street | Toronto<br />
416–299–0111<br />
Confronting the Demon—<br />
Dispelling the Demon<br />
Eliane Labendz and Katka Reszke: two women on<br />
an identity quest. Growing up in a family <strong>of</strong> Polishborn<br />
Shoah survivors, Eliane was never told that<br />
she was Jewish nor much about Poland. Katka was<br />
born and raised in Poland with no awareness <strong>of</strong> her<br />
Jewish ancestry. <strong>The</strong>y reveal their ways <strong>of</strong> making<br />
sense <strong>of</strong> experiences <strong>of</strong> memory and transition set<br />
against the landscape <strong>of</strong> troubled Polish-Jewish<br />
history, and a new curious present and future.<br />
Co-presented by the Consulate General <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Republic <strong>of</strong> Poland in Toronto and Congregation<br />
Habonim.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 7:00 PM<br />
Congregation Habonim<br />
5 Glen Park Avenue | Toronto<br />
Child Survivors and the<br />
Toronto Jewish Family and<br />
Child Service<br />
Dr. Paula Draper will speak about child survivors<br />
who came to Canada from 1948, and how JF&CS<br />
struggled to help them when social work was a<br />
young field and no one could imagine what survivors<br />
had experienced. Dr. Draper is a Holocaust historian<br />
specializing in memory history. She created and<br />
oversaw the Holocaust Documentation Project <strong>of</strong><br />
the then-Toronto Holocaust and Educational Memorial<br />
Centre (now Neuberger HEC). She has taught<br />
at the University <strong>of</strong> Toronto and York University.<br />
Presented by Beth Lida Forest Hill Congregation.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 7:30 PM<br />
Beth Lida Forest Hill Congregation<br />
22 Gilgorm Road | Toronto<br />
416–489–2550<br />
<strong>The</strong> Holocaust and the<br />
Science <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memory</strong><br />
On the cutting edge <strong>of</strong> neuroscience, Dr. Daniela<br />
Schiller’s research explores the possibility <strong>of</strong> traumatic<br />
memories being modified or altered, including<br />
the experience <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors and their<br />
memories. In conversation with Dr. Elliott Malamet,<br />
Dr. Schiller, herself a daughter <strong>of</strong> a survivor, will<br />
examine the nexus between Holocaust memory<br />
and trauma, and whether specific memories can<br />
be fixed or even “erased,” and the complex ethical<br />
questions surrounding such an enterprise.<br />
Presented by Torah in Motion.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 8:00 PM<br />
SHAAREI SHOMAYIM CONGREGATION<br />
470 GLENCAIRN AVENUE | TORONTO<br />
416–789–3213<br />
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50 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week
community programs<br />
In Conversation with<br />
a Holocaust Survivor<br />
Polish Holocaust survivor Nathan Leipciger will<br />
speak about his experience during the Holocaust and<br />
his recently-published Azrieli Foundation memoir,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Weight <strong>of</strong> Freedom. For his bio, see page 16.<br />
Copies <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Weight <strong>of</strong> Freedom are generously<br />
provided by the Azrieli Foundation and will be<br />
available for author signing following the program.<br />
Presented by Beth Emeth Yehuda Synagogue.<br />
Tuesday, 8 <strong>November</strong> | 8:00 PM<br />
Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue<br />
FISCHTEIN HALL | 100 Elder Street | Toronto<br />
Modifying Emotional Memories<br />
When emotional memories become traumatic, it<br />
might be beneficial to erase fear memories altogether<br />
preventing them from resurfacing. New evidence<br />
in non-human species suggests this might<br />
be possible using pharmacological manipulations.<br />
Dr. Daniela Schiller is currently testing this possibility<br />
in humans by examining whether laboratory<br />
induced emotional memories can be erased using<br />
pharmacology as well as drug-free behavioral<br />
manipulations. Dr. Schiller is Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School <strong>of</strong><br />
Medicine, Mt. Sinai, NY.<br />
Presented by Mount Sinai Joseph and Wolf Lebovic<br />
Health Complex.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 12:00 PM<br />
Mount Sinai<br />
Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Health Complex<br />
Ben Sadowski Auditorium<br />
18TH Floor | 600 University Avenue<br />
Toronto | 416–586–4800<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lesser-Known Transnistria<br />
Concentration Camps<br />
Arnold Buxbaum is a survivor <strong>of</strong> the Transnistria<br />
concentration and extermination camps <strong>of</strong> Jews <strong>of</strong><br />
Bukovina, Bessarabia, Ukraine, and the cities <strong>of</strong><br />
Dorohoi and Botosani. <strong>The</strong> experiences <strong>of</strong> survivors<br />
such as Arnold may be lesser-known than those <strong>of</strong><br />
other concentration or extermination camps. Learn<br />
about this subject by hearing Arnold Buxbaum’s<br />
personal experiences and by watching a film about<br />
these camps.<br />
Presented by Bernard Betel Centre.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 1:30 PM<br />
Bernard Betel Centre<br />
1003 Steeles Avenue West | Toronto<br />
416–225–2112<br />
Musical Memories<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Vilna Ghetto<br />
See p. 46 for description <strong>of</strong> this musical program.<br />
Presented by Christie Gardens.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 2:00 PM<br />
Christie Gardens Apartments & Care Inc.<br />
600 Melita Crescent | Toronto<br />
416–530–1330<br />
Traumatic <strong>Memory</strong>, Narrative<br />
and Identity—Pathways to<br />
Understanding<br />
Research suggests a family’s or community’s narrative<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>oundly affects attitude and identity <strong>of</strong><br />
future generations. Pr<strong>of</strong>. Bonnie Burstow, expert on<br />
traumatic memory, and Jeff Wilkinson, educator<br />
and researcher, will explore how dialogue enhances<br />
present and future understanding by increasing<br />
knowledge and acceptance <strong>of</strong> experiences and<br />
memory <strong>of</strong> the historical other. Human rights advocate<br />
and educator, Dr. Karen Mock, will moderate.<br />
Presented by the Antisemitism and Holocaust Education<br />
Project (Enhancing Social Justice Education),<br />
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 4:00 PM<br />
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education<br />
Peace Lounge | 7th floor<br />
252 Bloor Street West | Toronto<br />
416–782–1050<br />
In Conversation with a<br />
Child <strong>of</strong> Holocaust Survivors<br />
Kitty Tepperman, daughter <strong>of</strong> Holocaust survivors<br />
Erna (Zweig) and Joseph Peretz, will speak about her<br />
parents’ personal experiences during the Holocaust.<br />
Open to the general public; specially recommended<br />
for teens and their families.<br />
Presented by BBYO Ontario.<br />
Wednesday, 9 <strong>November</strong> | 6:30 PM<br />
Leo & Sala Goldhar Conference and<br />
Celebration Centre | 9600 Bathurst Street<br />
Vaughan | 416–398–2004<br />
In Conversation with<br />
a Holocaust Survivor<br />
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg<br />
Cohen will speak about her experience during the<br />
Holocaust. Judy Weissenberg Cohen was born in<br />
Debrecen, Hungary, in 1928. She was deported to<br />
Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and survived Bergen-<br />
Belsen, a slave labour camp and a death march. She<br />
was liberated in 1945 and immigrated to Canada<br />
in 1948.<br />
This is a regular Sunday Worship Service featuring<br />
Judy Cohen’s testimony. Program includes a special<br />
music, scripture reading and message on theme.<br />
Presented by Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church.<br />
Sunday, 13 <strong>November</strong> | 11:00 AM<br />
Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church<br />
425 Pacific Avenue | Toronto<br />
416–762–6427<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tattooed Torah<br />
<strong>The</strong> story <strong>of</strong> Sefer Torah #683—one <strong>of</strong> the 1564<br />
Czech Memorial Sifre Torah which constituted part<br />
<strong>of</strong> the treasure looted by the Nazis from 1939–1945<br />
from the desolated communities <strong>of</strong> Bohemia, Moravia,<br />
and Slovakia. Keynote speaker Rabbi Emeritus<br />
Larry Englander.<br />
Presented by Solel Synagogue.<br />
Friday, 18 <strong>November</strong> | 8:00 PM<br />
Solel Synagogue | 2399 Folkway Drive<br />
Mississauga | 905–820–5915<br />
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SARAH AND CHAIM NEUBERGER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE<br />
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SARAH AND CHAIM<br />
NEUBERGER HOLOCAUST<br />
EDUCATION CENTRE<br />
SURVIVOR SPEAKERS’<br />
BUREAU<br />
Amek A. Adler<br />
Claire Baum<br />
George Berman<br />
Hedy Bohm<br />
Felicia Carmelly<br />
Howard Chandler<br />
Judy Cohen<br />
Irene Csillag<br />
Anne Eidlitz<br />
Alexander Eisen<br />
Max Eisen<br />
Sally Eisner<br />
Anita Ekstein<br />
Esther Fairbloom<br />
Shary Marmor Fine<br />
Edward Fisch<br />
George Fox<br />
Miriam Frankel<br />
John Freund<br />
Gerda Frieberg<br />
Rosalind Goldenberg<br />
Edith Gelbard<br />
Bill Glied<br />
Mel Goldberg<br />
Mendel Good<br />
Elly Gotz<br />
Pinchas Gutter<br />
Denise Hans<br />
Magda Hilf<br />
Lou (Leizer) H<strong>of</strong>fer<br />
Jerry Kapelus<br />
Howard & Nancy Kleinberg<br />
Chava Kwinta<br />
Mark Lane<br />
Manny Langer<br />
Joe Leinburd<br />
Nathan Leipciger<br />
Faigie Libman<br />
Rose Lipszyc<br />
Judy Lysy<br />
Martin Maxwell<br />
Eva Meisels<br />
Leslie Meisels<br />
Andy Reti<br />
Sally Rosen<br />
Vera Schiff<br />
Faye Schulman<br />
Helen Schwartz<br />
George Scott<br />
Leonard Vis<br />
Lenka Weksberg<br />
Gershon Willinger<br />
Helen Yermus<br />
Roman Ziegler<br />
SARAH AND CHAIM<br />
NEUBERGER HOLOCAUST<br />
EDUCATION CENTRE<br />
Chair<br />
Shael Rosenbaum<br />
Immediate Past Chair<br />
Marilyn Sinclair<br />
Interim Director<br />
Dara Solomon<br />
Managing Director<br />
Carson Phillips, Ph.D.<br />
Manager <strong>of</strong> Operations<br />
Mary Siklos<br />
Manager, Public Programs<br />
Rachel Libman<br />
Education Associate<br />
Michelle Fishman<br />
Program Assistant<br />
Kit MacManus<br />
Librarian<br />
Anna Skorupsky<br />
Gedenkdiener<br />
Lorenz Glettler<br />
Administrative Assistant<br />
Iris Glesinger Lichtinshtein<br />
Advisory Committee<br />
Heshy Altbaum<br />
Howard Driman<br />
Dori Ekstein<br />
Anita Ekstein<br />
Catherine Gitzel<br />
Bill Glied<br />
Joseph Gottdenker<br />
Pinchas Gutter<br />
Lily Kim<br />
Lisa Richman<br />
Joyce Rifkind<br />
Doris Rochman<br />
Rammy Rochman<br />
Jonathan Samuel<br />
Honey Sherman<br />
Leonard Vis<br />
Myra York<br />
Honorary Members<br />
Max Eisen<br />
Gerda Frieberg<br />
Elly Gotz<br />
Nate Leipciger<br />
UJA FEDERATION OF<br />
GREATER TORONTO<br />
Chair <strong>of</strong> the Board<br />
Morris Perlis<br />
Vice Chair<br />
Bruce Leb<strong>of</strong>f<br />
President & CEO<br />
Adam Minsky<br />
2016 HOLOCAUST<br />
EDUCATION WEEK<br />
Co-Chairs<br />
Dori Ekstein<br />
Lily Kim<br />
Lisa Richman<br />
Liaisons & Volunteers<br />
Steven Albin<br />
Gail Avinoam<br />
Goldie Babarci<br />
Ken Bernknopf<br />
Claire Braseliten<br />
Robert Buckler<br />
Karen Budahazy<br />
Felicia Carmelly<br />
Honey Carr<br />
Sharon Chodirker<br />
Eric Cohen<br />
Sally Dale<br />
Jennifer Daly<br />
Howard Driman<br />
Ellen Gardner<br />
Sandra Gitlin<br />
Marilyn Goldberg<br />
Nicole Greenwood<br />
Hartley Hershenhorn<br />
Karen Igra<br />
Eileen Jadd<br />
Sheri Kagan<br />
Stephanie Kirsh<br />
Kendra Knoll<br />
Joy Kohn<br />
Eliane Labendz<br />
Karen Lasky<br />
Susan Lehner<br />
Arla Litwin<br />
Roz L<strong>of</strong>sky<br />
Shely Mann<br />
Martin Maxwell<br />
Annette Metz-Pivnick<br />
Naomi Parness<br />
Jodi Porepa<br />
Hilary Rabie<br />
Andy Reti<br />
Joyce Rifkind<br />
Doris Rochman<br />
Rammy Rochman<br />
Jillian Rodak<br />
Julia Rowan<br />
Barbara Rusch<br />
Annette Sacks<br />
Mary Schneider<br />
Julie Silver<br />
Joan Shapero<br />
Rita Slapack<br />
Guido Smit<br />
Celine Szoges<br />
Kitty Tepperman<br />
Alan Wainer<br />
Jennifer Walsh<br />
Nita Wexler<br />
Rhonda Wolf<br />
LEGACY SYMPOSIUM<br />
Co-Chairs<br />
Jillian Rodak<br />
Jessica Pollock<br />
Committee<br />
Elizabeth Banks<br />
Stephanie Corazza<br />
Jon Livergant<br />
Dayna Simon<br />
Brenna Singer<br />
“SECOND G” SYMPOSIUM<br />
Co-Chairs<br />
Dori Ekstein<br />
Marilyn Sinclair<br />
Committee<br />
Isaac Applebaum<br />
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