Thursday, November 9th, 2006
10:00AM
 Children of the Kindertransport
12:00 Noon
From Kristallnacht to Liberation Day
1:30PM
My Personal Testmony
2:00PM
My Personal Testmony
2:00PM
My Personal Testimony
7:00PM
Tolerance and Compassion:A Caring Approach to Teaching Students Good Character
7:30PM - CLOSING PROGRAM
We Remember and Honour
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10:00AM
B'nai Brith Canada
15 Hove Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-633-6224
CHILDREN OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT
SUSY GOLDSTEIN and WENDY SHARE will talk
about their father’s life as a child growing up in
Germany and his escape from the Nazis as one of the
children of the Kindertransport. See page 14 for full
program details.
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12:30PM
Parkdale Public Library
1303 Queen Street West, Toronto
Contact: 416-393-7686
FROM KRISTALLNACHT
TO LIBERATION DAY
Holocaust survivor MARTIN MAXWELL, born in
Vienna in 1924, witnessed the Kristallnacht pogrom in
Vienna in 1938. He escaped to England on the
Kindertransport and was adopted by an English couple.
He later joined the British Army in 1942 and took part
in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
When he fought in the battle of Arnhem, Holland, he
was wounded and taken prisoner. Liberated in May
1945, he came to Canada in 1952. This program is
offered to students of the Parkdale Collegiate Institute
but is also open to members of the local community.
Co-sponsored by Parkdale Collegiate Institute.
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1:30PM
Forest Hill Library
700 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto
Contact: 416-393-7707
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Born in Lenin, Poland, FAYE SCHULMAN saw the
Nazis murder her family in 1942. Escaping, she joined
the Soviet partisans in the forest to fight for freedom.
Liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1944, Faye was
decorated by several governments for her bravery. She
immigrated to Canada in 1948. Faye is the author of
A Partisan’s Memoir and is featured in three documentaries,
one of them a Canadian production Out of the
Fire. A question and answer period will follow.
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2:00PM
Danforth/Coxwell Library
1675 Danforth Avenue, Toronto
Contact: 416-393-7784
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Holocaust survivor HOWARD CHANDLER was born
in 1928 in Wierzbnik, Poland. He was a prisoner in
Starachowice Labour Camp between 1942-1944, then
in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt
between 1944-1945. He came to Canada in 1947 as
a war orphan with other children from England.
A question and answer period will follow.
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2:00PM
Wychwood Library
1431 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-393-7684
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
After being expelled from Italy, Holocaust survivor
MIRIAM FRANKEL became trapped in Hungarianoccupied
Czechoslovakia. Later in the spring of 1944
she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Liberated in
Germany in 1945, she is the sole survivor of her entire
family. Miriam came to Canada as a Jewish War orphan
in 1947. A question and answer period will follow.
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7:00PM
Sacred Heart Catholic School
1 Crusader Way, Newmarket
Contact: 905-895-3340
TOLERANCE AND COMPASSION: A CARING APPROACH TO TEACHING STUDENTS GOOD CHARACTER
A survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,
EVA OLSSON is the author of the national bestseller,
Unlocking the Doors: A Woman’s Struggle Against
Intolerance. She is also a widelyacclaimed
public speaker who
lectures throughout Ontario and
the U.S. at public schools, colleges
and universities about tolerance
and compassion. She will be
available for a question and
answer period.
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 7:30PM
Shaar Shalom Synagogue
2 Simonston Blvd., Thornhill
Contact: 905-889-4975
WE REMEMBER
AND HONOUR
The legendary Viennese Jewish sports club, Hakoah, came into being in response to the Aryan Paragraph in 1909,
when Austrian sports clubs were closed to Jewish athletes. Hakoah grew into one of Europe’s biggest athletic
clubs and achieved astonishing results, especially from its women swimmers. In 1938, the Nazis shut down the
club, but with the help of their coach, the swimmers all managed to escape before the War broke out.
Sixty five years later, film director Yaron Zilberman met with the members of
the women’s swim team in their homes around the world and arranged a reunion in
their old swimming pool in Vienna. The result is the renowned documentary
Watermarks.
GRETA STANTON, the diving champion featured in the film, and a witness to
Kristallnacht in Vienna, will recall her memories of that time and discuss the impact of
the film on her and her former teammates, some of whom she had not seen since 1939.
A Professor Emerita of Social Work at Rutgers University in New Jersey,
Greta Stanton’s academic field of expertise was step-parenting. She
currently organizes psychodrama sessions for high school students in New
Jersey on the topic of mixed marriages. Since retiring 15 years ago, she has
studied and lectured on the subject of the Holocaust and is involved
with the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
A candle-lighting ceremony will commemorate the 68th anniversary of
Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when on November 9-10, 1938, a
massive, coordinated attack was carried out against Jewish homes,
synagogues and businesses throughout Germany and Austria.
Jewish War veterans will also be honoured for their role in World War II.
Click here for additional online resources about Kristallnacht.
Generously co-sponsored by Martin Maxwell, in memory of
his two sisters, Josefine and Erna Meisels, who died during the
Holocaust; and by the Sharon Diamond and Walt Family Fund
at Shaar Shalom Synagogue, in loving memory of
Sharon B. Diamond and Isidore J. Walt.
 “In Berlin...fire engines stood by to protect the nearby main
post office while the Oranienburgstrasse synagogue burned.”
Photo – Kristallnacht: the Nazi night of terror by Anthony
Read and David Fisher. Published by Random House.
Greta Stanton
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