Monday, November 6th, 2006
12:30PM
 Days of Masquerade - Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich
1:00PM
My Personal Testimony
1:30PM
My Personal Testmony
1:30PM
My Personal Testmony
2:00PM
Media, Genocide, and Public Responsibility
4:00PM
Past Into the Future: Lessons Learned Caring for Aging Survivors
1:30PM
We, The Women
7:30PM
My Personal Testmony
7:30PM
From Generation to Generation: Awareness-Building Among Christians
8:00PM
A Cry That Could Not Be Silenced: M.J. Nurenberger, the Bergson Group, and the Struggle for Allied Action Against the Holocause
8:00PM
Theresienstadt
8:00PM
Sun In My Eyes
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12:30PM
Canadian Centre for German and European Studies
York Lanes, Suite 230
4700 Keel Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-736-2100
DAYS OF MASQUERADE - LIFE STORIES OF LESBIANS DURING THE THIRD REICH
DR. CLAUDIA SCHOPPMANN, who is a well-known
German historian, is the author of Nationalsozialistische
Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualitaet (1991) on Nazi
politics and female homosexuality, co-editor of Nach der
Shoa geboren (1994) on second-generation Jewish
women in Germany, and other books on German
(women’s) history. Dr. Schoppmann’s work opens up
new roads for further research in contemporary
German societal issues. She will read from her book
Days of Masquerade (1996), which presents the life
stories of ten lesbians, both Jewish and non-Jewish,
who lived through the Nazi era. This program is
specifically recommended for students of Lesbian and
Gay Studies, Women’s Studies, Modern German
History, and Holocaust Studies. A question and answer
period will follow.
Co-sponsored by York University’s Canadian Centre for
German and European Studies; The Centre for Jewish Studies;
and, Hillel of Greater Toronto.
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1:00PM
Location:Angus Glen Public Library
3990 Major Mackenzie Drive E., Markham
Contact: 905-513-7977 x7133
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Holocaust survivor HENRY MELNICK was born in
Lodz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazis occupied Poland
in 1939, he was sent to do slave labour in the
Nowysancz, Tarnow and Szebnie ghettos. He was then
transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Dora-Mittelbau
and Bergen-Belsen death camps. When his parents
were murdered in the Belzec death camp, he became
the sole survivor of his entire family. After Liberation,
Henry volunteered for the Israeli Army and fought for
Israel’s independence. He came to Canada in 1965 with
his wife Hela and their two children.
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1:30PM
Northern District Public Library
40 Orchard View Blvd., Toronto
Contact: 416-393-7619
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
MAGDA HILF was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921.
After the Nazi occupation in 1944, her family was
driven to the nearby ghetto in Sátoraljaújhely,
Hungary. She was then deported to Auschwitz-
Birkenau in 1944, where her parents and sister
were immediately gassed. Her sister’s two children, a
10-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son, were also
murdered upon their arrival. Magda’s 18-year-old
brother, Tibor, survived the initial selection but was
later killed. From Auschwitz, Magda was taken to
Markleberg, close to Leipzig, for slave labour. On April
13, 1945, she was forced onto a death march but
managed to escape with four friends. One month later
they were liberated by the Soviet Red Army. Magda
immigrated to Canada with her husband and daughter
in 1953. A question and answer period will follow.
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1:30PM
Woodbridge Library
150 Woodbridge Avenue, Woodbridge
Contact: 905-653-7323
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Holocaust survivor ARNOLD FRIEDMAN, born in
Chudlovo, Czechoslovakia in 1928, was deported to
Auschwitz in the spring of 1944. His mother, father,
younger brothers and sisters were all murdered in
Birkenau. In January 1945 Arnold survived a death
march to Gross Rosen and the Dachau camps. He was
liberated on May 4, 1945 by the U.S. Army near
Garmish-Partenkirchen. As a war orphan in 1946, he
immigrated to Scotland and then was brought to
Canada by the Canadian Jewish Congress in November
1947. A question and answer period will follow.
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4:00PM
George Brown College
146 Kendal Avenue, Toronto
Casa Loma Campus, E Building, Room E430
Closest Subway station: Dupont
Located 1/2 block North and 1 East of Spadina & Dupont
Contact: 416-415-5000 x4556
PAST INTO THE FUTURE: LESSONS LEARNED CARING FOR AGING SURVIVORS
PAULA DAVID is the Coordinator of the Holocaust
Resource Program and Senior Social Worker at Baycrest
Centre for Geriatric Care. With a background in adult
education and community organization, she has
developed teaching modules for professional staff
working with survivors of genocide and clinical issues of
post-traumatic stress disorder. She produced A Practice
Manual, based on this work, that is being used
internationally. Currently Ms. David is working on her
PhD at the Faculty of Social Work, U of T, doing research
on end-of-life issues for aging Holocaust survivors.
Her lecture will describe some of the challenges and the
rewards in her experience working with Holocaust
survivors and their families. The discussion will focus
on the legacy they leave and the meaning of this legacy
for survivors of subsequent genocides. A question and
answer period will follow.
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 2:00PM
Ryerson University, Jorgenson Hall, POD 144
380 Victoria Street, Toronto
(off Gerrard Street)
Contact: 416-979-5000 x6293
MEDIA, GENOCIDE, AND PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY
What is the responsibility of the
North American mainstream
media when it comes to reporting
atrocities, crimes against
humanity, and genocide? Does
the media treatment of these
events shape international
response? What is the relationship between the
media, the public, and the government in cases of
genocide, and is the public responsible for
demanding appropriate coverage where it is
lacking? How are new technologies enhancing
and/or obscuring the way that information about
genocide is disseminated? AMANDA F. GRZYB
will address these questions by examining the media
coverage of the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide,
and the current atrocities in Darfur. She will explore
accuracy in reporting, editorial decisions, activism
and alternative media, claims about “compassion
fatigue” in the general public, and the dual responsibility
of the media and the public for promoting
and/or discouraging international intervention in
cases of crimes against humanity.
Amanda F. Grzyb is a Lecturer in the Faculty of
Information and Media Studies at the University
of Western Ontario, an Associate Scholar at the
Holocaust Literature Research Institute, and an
Instructor at the General Romeo Dallaire Genocide
Institute. She is currently editing an anthology on
the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
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7:30PM
Adath Israel Congregation
37 Southbourne Avenue, Toronto
Contact: 416-635-5340
WE, THE WOMEN
MERLE NUDELMAN is a Toronto lawyer, poet, and
daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her first book of
poems, Borrowed Light, was the 2004 winner of the
Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry. Her prizewinning
poems have been published in many literary
journals and newspapers. In her second poetry collection,
We, the Women, she explores the life-long impact of
the Holocaust on survivors and the next generation, as
well as healing through love and spiritual belief.
Generously co-sponsored by the Gottesman family, in memory
of Carol and Herman Gottesman.
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7:30PM
Holy Blossom Temple
Youth Chapel
1950 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-789-3921
PAST INTO THE FUTURE: LESSONS LEARNED CARING FOR AGING SURVIVORS
BRONKA KRYGIER spent two years in the Warsaw
Ghetto between 1939-1941. She managed to escape and
later worked as a farm labourer. Escaping once more,
she went into hiding between 1941-1944 with a female
relative. She was finally liberated by the Soviet Red
Army in July 1944. She lived briefly in the Soviet Union
(Russia), in Poland, and in France for ten years before
coming to Canada with her husband and children in
1957. A question and answer period will follow.
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7:30PM
L'Arche Daybreak - Dayspring Chapel
11339 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill
(S/E corner of Devonsleigh)
Contact: 905-884-3454 x246/226
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION: AWARENESS-BUILDING AMONG CHRISTIANS
This program will feature the film Sister Rose’s Passion,
about a nun who challenged and helped change antisemitic
teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
A presentation and discussion will follow led by
REV. DR. KAREN HAMILTON, Chair of the former
steering committee for the United Church document
Bearing Faithful Witness. This document addresses,
among other issues, anti-Jewish interpretations and
content in the New Testament.
Co-sponsored by Richmond Hill United Church.
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 8:00PM
Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation
613 Clark Avenue West, Thornhill
Contact: 905-886-3810
A CRY THAT COULD NOT BE SILENCED: M.J. NURENBERGER, THE BERGSON GROUP, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ALLIED ACTION AGAINST THE HOLOCAUST
This program marks the re-issue of The Scared
and the Doomed, M. J. Nurenberger’s provocative
memoir of 1940s Jewish politics and the response
of American Jewry to the greatest challenge and
tragedy of Jewish history. Nurenberger, a renowned
journalist and activist, later covered the Nuremberg
Trials as a war correspondent for the U.S. Army and
was the founder of The Canadian Jewish News.
A lecture will be given by DR. RAFAEL MEDOFF,
founding Director of the David S. Wyman Institute
for Holocaust Studies based in
Washington, D.C., focusing on
how America and its allies
responded to the Holocaust.
Dr. Medoff is the author of seven
critically-acclaimed books about
the Holocaust, Zionism, and the
history of American Jewry,
including a textbook on Jews in American politics
that was named an “Outstanding Academic
Title of 2003” by the American Library Association’s
Choice magazine. His most recent book is A Race
Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the
Holocaust, coauthored with David S. Wyman.
The program will be introduced by Nurenberger’s
daughter, Beth Avraham Yoseph member ATARA
BECK.
Co-sponsored by BAYT Brotherhood/Sisterhood; B’nai
Brith Canada; and Betar Tagar.
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8:00PM
Jewish Genealogical Society
Location: Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
470 Glencairn Avenue, Toronto
Contact: 416-926-3277
THERESIENSTADT
Holocaust survivor HENRY WELLISCH will focus on
the history of Theresienstadt and the establishment of
the Theresienstadt Ghetto. The Nazis attempted to use
the town for counter-propaganda purposes to refute
the persistent reports of the continuing Holocaust in
the East. To this end, they produced a film which has
been partially preserved and which will be shown as
part of this presentation. Tens of thousands of Jews,
mostly from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia,
were sent to this camp, but many ended up in the
death camps in the East. Some records have been
saved and the various sources available will also be
discussed.
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8:00PM
Medina Theatre Ensemble
Location: Temple Sinai Congregation
210 Wilson Avenue, Toronto
Contact: 416-785-1074
SUN IN MY EYES
Written by Jack Kuper and directed by Morris Jacobs,
this play is an inspirational story of the courage,
dignity and compassion of people faced with destruction.
Set in Poland in the winter of 1942 in a small town
populated mostly by Jews, it is the story of the Nazis’
murder of a family on the run and the desperate
sobering finality of a child as the sole survivor. The title
derives from a Polish peasant fiction that Jews could
not see the sun.
Co-sponsored by Temple Sinai Congregation.
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