School programs:
(CLOSED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC)
 All Saints Catholic Elementary School
 Unionville
Speaker: GEORGE FOX
Cardinal Newman Catholic High School
Scarborough
Cardinal Newman Catholic School is proud of their students, Sarah Sousa and Jamie Grainger (1st and 3rd Place,
Senior Division), winners of the 2006 Ontario Provincial Arts/Writing Contest on the Holocaust, sponsored by the
UJA Federation Holocaust Centre of Toronto.
Speaker: ERNST WEISS
Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto
Tanenbaum Campus (CHAT)
student based program
Dante Alighieri Academy
Toronto
Speaker: BILL GLIED
École Secondaire Mgr-de-Charbonnel
Toronto
Speaker: SAMUEL SHENE
Father Henry Carr Catholic School
Toronto
Speaker: JUDY WEISSENBERG COHEN
Father John Redmond Catholic School
Toronto
Speaker: ADA WYNSTON
Madonna CAtholic Secondary School
Toronto
Speaker: BRONKA KRYGIER
Mississauga Secondary School
Mississauga
Speaker: NATE LEIPCIGER
Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School
Concord
Speaker: SALLY WASSERMAN
Rene Goupil - St. Luke Catholic School
Thornhill
Speaker: ADA WYNSTON
Sacred Heart Catholic High School
Newmarket
Speaker: EVA OLSSON
St. Edmund Campion Secondary School
Brampton
Speaker: LEONARD VIS
St. Edmund Catholic School
Markham
Speaker: JOE LEINBURD
Venerable John Merlini CAtholic School
Toronto
Speaker: HELEN YERMUS
Westmount Collegiate Institute
Thornhill
Speaker: JUDY LYSY
If you are interested in having a speaker come to your school, please contact Hannah Schwartz by calling 416-635-2883 x153 or e-mail her at hschwartz@ujafed.org.
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The UJA Federation Holocaust Centre of Toronto is committed to eliminating antisemitism, racism and bigotry
through dynamic education programming.
Each year, the UJA Federation Holocaust Centre of Toronto welcomes over 20,000 students, most of them non-
Jewish, to learn from survivor speakers about the Shoah. In addition, we send survivor speakers into schools
unable to visit the Centre, we educate hundreds of teachers at our yearly seminars and we sponsor well-attended
student education days. Over the past decade, the Arts/Writing Contest, based on relevant Holocaust themes,
has attracted scores of quality entries from grade 8-12 students throughout the province.
To this end, we gratefully acknowledge the following schools for recognizing the importance of teaching
the vital lessons of the Holocaust by presenting programs exclusively for their students during Holocaust
Education Week. Many of these schools are presenting programs for the first time.
A special thank you to the Holocaust survivor speakers participating in these programs, whose shining
example of courage and dignity serves as a role model for a new generation and offers hope for the future.
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CHILDREN'S WRITERS
IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM
Over the years it has become apparent
that our Holocaust survivors need to
have the burden of their message
shared. Young adult writers, who write
specifically on the Holocaust, are experienced
in the classroom and adept at
teaching difficult material to younger
children.
This school program, created by young
adult writer, two-time Governor General
Literary Award nominee Sharon McKay
will be launched in three public schools
during Holocaust Education Week.
Sharon is a long-time member of the
Holocaust Remembrance Committee of
the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto
(under the direction of Ada Wynston).
Looking to the future of hands-on
Holocaust education, Sharon and Kathy
Kacer, an award-winning children's
writer and daughter of survivors, will
spearhead in-classroom presentations in
the company of survivors.
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