2–9 November The Future of Memory

LIBRARY AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane
will speak about his experience during the Holocaust.
For his bio, see page 32.
Friday, 4 November | 11:00 AM
Maple Library | 10190 Keele Street
905–653–7323
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor Mark Lane will
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.
For his bio, see page 32.
Sunday, 6 November | 1:30 PM
Bathurst Clark Resource Library
900 Clark Avenue West | Thornhill
905–653–7323
Austrian Holocaust survivor Alexander Eisen will
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.
For his bio, see page 35.
Generously co-sponsored by an anonymous donor
in memory of Danny Saltzman.
Monday, 7 November | 1:00 PM
Deer Park Library
40 St Clair Avenue East | Toronto
416–393–7658
Children of the Holocaust
Join us for a special screening of Children of the
Holocaust (2014, English), animated short documentary
films created by BBC Learning and Fettle
Animation. A Q&A session following the screening
will be moderated by Lorenz Glettler, Austrian
Holocaust Memorial Intern (Gedenkdiener, Austrian
Service Abroad) at the Neuberger.
Generously co-sponsored by Yigal Rifkind in honour
of his mother, Joyce Rifkind.
Monday, 7 November | 10:00 AM
Beaches Library
2161 Queen Street East | Toronto
416–393–7703
Romanian Holocaust survivor Joe (Joseph) Leinburd
will speak about his experience during the Holocaust.
For his bio, see page 35.
Monday, 7 November | 2:00 PM
Bloor/Gladstone Library
1101 Bloor Street West | Toronto
416–393–7674
The Past in the Future:
Re-Envisioning Holocaust
Literature
Dr. Frank Bialystok, Prof. Laura Wiseman, and
Rona Arato will speak about various genres of
Holocaust literature and the implications for the
future: creative non-fiction, memoirs and diaries,
and historical fiction.
Co-presented by the Ekstein Holocaust Resource
Library at the Neuberger and the Association
of Jewish Libraries. Generously co-sponsored by
Helen Stollar in memory of all the children killed
in the Holocaust.
Monday, 7 November | 7:30 PM
Association of Jewish Libraries at the
Ekstein Holocaust Resource Library
Lipa Green Centre | 4th floor
4600 Bathurst Street | Toronto
416–635–2996
Paul-Henri Rips:
Matricule E/96
Paul-Henri Rips, survivant de l’Holocauste et auteur
de Matricule E/96, témoigne de l’expérience juive
en Belgique pendant la guerre. Paul-Henri Rips,
a Holocaust survivor and author of E/96, discusses
his experience in Belgium during the Holocaust.
This program is in French. Paul-Henri will read from
his memoir, Matricule E/96, published by the Azrieli
Foundation. Copies of Matricule E/96 are generously
provided by the Azrieli Foundation.
Tuesday, 8 November | 10:00 AM
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street | Toronto
416–393–7014
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Andy Réti will speak
about his experience during the Holocaust. For his
bio, see page 35. Copies of Stronger Together are
published by and generously provided by the Azrieli
Foundation and will be available for author signing
following the program.
Tuesday, 8 November | 10:30 AM
Brentwood Library
36 Brentwood Road North | Etobicoke
416–394–5240
Romanian Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm will speak
about her experience during the Holocaust. Hedy
Bohm was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1928. She was
an only child, and attended a Jewish girls’ school.
In 1944, Hedy and her family were sent to a ghetto.
Within two months she was deported to Auschwitz-
Birkenau. She was then selected for forced work
detail at an ammunition factory and shipped to Fallersleben,
Germany. American forces liberated Hedy
in April 1945. In 1948, Hedy and her husband immigrated
to Canada.
Generously co-sponsored by the Axler, Glazer &
Lang families, in honor of Feiga Glazer and in
memory of the late Mozes Glazer, both Holocaust
survivors.
Tuesday, 8 November | 1:30 PM
Locke Branch
3083 Yonge Street | Toronto
416–393–7730
Polish Holocaust survivor Nathan Leipciger will
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.
For his bio, see page 16. Nate will read from his
memoir, The Weight of Freedom, published by the
Azrieli Foundation. Copies are generously provided
by the Azrieli Foundation and will be available for
author signing following the program.
Generously co-sponsored by the Gottesman family
in memory of Carol and Herman Gottesman.
Tuesday, 8 November | 1:00 PM
North York Central Library
5120 Yonge Street | Toronto
416–395–5784
Polish Holocaust survivor Howard Kleinberg will
speak about his experience during the Holocaust.
Howard Kleinberg was born in the village of
Wierzbnik, Poland and was raised in a traditional,
observant home. By October 1942, his life had
changed forever. Before he had turned 20, Howard
endured years of forced labour, hunger, hardship,
cruelty, forced marches, as well as internment in
several concentration camps. After liberation from
Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, he learned that his
parents, most of his relatives and friends had not
survived.
Tuesday, 8 November | 1:00 PM
Sanderson Library
327 Bathurst St | Toronto
416–393–7653
36 Neuberger Holocaust Education Week