Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
10:00AM
 Children of the Kindertransport
12:00NOON
Imaginary Witness:
Hollywood and the Holocaust (FILM)
1:00PM
Train of Life [Train de Vie] (FILM)
1:30PM
My Personal Testimony
4:30PM
Justice Destoryed:
The Plight of A Jewish Lawyer in Nazi Germany
7:00PM
Kristallnacht (FILM)
7:00PM
Neighbours: Freud and Hitler in Vienna
7:00PM
Aimee and Jaguar (FILM)
7:00PM
From Destruction Through Survival to Strength: A Musical Celebration of the Jewish Spirit
7:30PM
Crossing Swords with Hitler:
A Jewish Lawyer Confronts Hitler in Court
7:30PM
My Personal Testimony
7:30PM
My Personal Testimony
Admission to all programs is free unless otherwise noted.
However, to ensure that the highest caliber of Holocaust programs may be perpetuated in future years, a voluntary donation of at least $3 per person per event would be appreciated. Donation boxes will be available at all events. We thank you for your generosity.
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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. In January 1939, his parents
sent him and his brother, then just 9 and 13 years old,
on a train departing Germany. Like the majority of the
10,000 children saved by this rescue effort, they never
saw their parents again. The Kindertransport was an act of
mercy not equalled anywhere else before the War.
Co-sponsored by Carole and Jay Sterling, in memory of Ralph
Danker.
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12:00NOON
Beth Tikvah Synagogue
3080 Bayview Avenue, Toronto
Contact: 416-221-3433
IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST
Imaginary Witness, a documentary by Academy-Award
nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Daniel
Anker, traces Hollywood's ambivalence and denial
during the darkest period of the 20th century.
It explores the way Hollywood movies shape our
perceptions of the Holocaust from the Great Dictator to
Schindler's List and examines Hollywood's complex
responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Narrated by
Gene Hackman, the film also shows telling clips from
more than forty movies, as well as exclusive interviews
with survivors, scholars and filmmakers such as Steven
Spielberg. LARRY ANKLEWICZ, Program Co-ordinator
for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, will act as moderator
and commentator.
Part of the "Lunch & Learn" series; $12 for lunch. Pre-payment
required; call 416-221-3433 x0. This program will be repeated
at the same location on Wednesday, November 8th, at 8:00PM
with no charge.
Supported by the UJA Federation Women's Campaign &
Advocacy.
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1:00PM
Barbara Frum Library
20 Covington Road, Toronto
30 Bond Street, Toronto
416-395-5455
Contact: 416-864-6060 x2373
TRAIN OF LIFE [TRAIN DE VIE] (FILM)
The year is 1941 and a tiny Jewish community in
France is faced with some shocking news: the Nazis
are coming. But Shlomo, the not-so-foolish village
idiot, has a plan: before the Germans can dispatch
them to camps, the townspeople will "deport"
themselves to freedom. In a daring race against time,
they build their own train and, masquerading as Nazis
and their prisoners, attempt one of the greatest escapes
in history. With tenderness, suspense and hilarity,
Train of Life is a stirring tribute to the strength of
the human spirit.
French and German with subtitles.
Winner of 12 International Film Awards including the
Venice Film Festival Critics Prize: Best First Work, and
the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.
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1:30PM
Deer Park Library
40 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto
Contact: 416-393-7658
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
GEORGE BERMAN was born in Poland in 1923.
He and his family lived in the Lodz Ghetto between
1940-1944, and were then transferred to Auschwitz-
Birkenau, where he lost both his parents. Two weeks
later, he was transferred to Gorlitz, a camp in German
Silesia, from which he escaped on May 4, 1945, just
one day before the War ended. He returned to Lodz
briefly before immigrating to Cardiff, Wales, where he
met his future wife. George and his family have been
living in Canada since 1956.
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4:30PM
First Canadian Place
100 King Street West, Toronto
(for parking information click here)
Contact: 416-862-6180
JUSTICE DESTROYED: THE PLIGHT OF A JEWISH LAWYER IN NAZI GERMANY
DOUGLAS G. MORRIS, a New York trial attorney and
an historian, has written about Jewish anti-Nazi lawyer
Max Hirschberg in pre-World War II Weimar Germany.
This lecture will shed light on the life and times of
Mr. Hirschberg. Introductory remarks will be delivered
by the HON. PATRICK J. LeSAGE Q.C., former Chief
Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario. Click here
for information on "Lawyers Without Rights," an
exhibit highlighting the destruction of the justice
system in Germany after 1933 and the fate of Jewish
lawyers. To book a tour, call Joyce Rifkind at (416)635-2883 x114 or e-mail jrifkind@ujafed.org.
With support from Goodman & Carr LLP.
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7:00PM
Bathurst Clark Resource Library
900 Clark Avenue West, Thornhill
Contact: 905-653-7323 x4122
KRISTALLNACHT (FILM)
This documentary provides an historic overview of the
Nazi terror that started in 1933. After the screening,
Holocaust survivor, YAEL SPIER COHEN will recall
her personal experiences. Yael was born in Hesse,
Germany. As a school girl, she witnessed Kristallnacht
in Nazi Germany and was expelled from school
because she was Jewish. In 1942 her entire family was
deported to Theresienstadt, then in 1944 to Auschwitz-
Birkenau. Her parents were murdered in the gas
chambers of Birkenau and her brother died of
starvation and typhus in Dachau-Kaufering. She was
sent to do slave labour and was liberated on May 5,
1945 from Mauthausen. At the age of 16, Yael was
alone in the world.
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7:00PM
Tyndale University College & Seminary
25 Ballyconnor Court, Toronto
Contact: 416-218-6766
NEIGHBOURS: FREUD AND
HITLER IN VIENNA (FILM)
In this documentary, international filmmaker
MANFRED BECKER compares and explores how
the minds of two major historical figures influenced
and shaped the 20th century through unlikely
parallels in their shared philosophies. While Freud
escaped the Nazis, four of his sisters perished in
concentration camps. The film is punctuated with
interviews with Freud scholars and granddaughter
Sophie Freud. Originally created for the History
Channel, it has been presented and successfully
received in many academic settings.
Following the screening, Becker will participate in a
discussion with DR. EARL DAVEY, Provost and
Vice-President, Academic and Professor of Music at
Tyndale University College and Seminary. A former
Director of the award-winning Brandon University
Chorale, he is also co-founder of the Western
Manitoba Youth Choir.
Mr. Becker has made documentaries on statesponsored
terrorism, Sigmund Freud and Adolf
Hitler's shared Vienna neighbourhood, and
near-genocide in East Timor. Currently living in
Toronto, Mr. Becker also teaches at York University.
Generously co-sponsored by the Rash family, in loving
memory of Dina Zbar and her son-in-law, Harry Rash,
and in honour of their (great) great-grandchildren,
Hayden & Dylan Steinberg and Mason & Danielle Drutz.
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7:00PM
Kulanu
Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life
36 Harbord Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-925-1814
AIMÉE AND JAGUAR (FILM)
Germany, 1943. Felice is a Jewish lesbian, residing in
Berlin, and leading a double life. By day, she works for
a Nazi-run newspaper. By night, she takes information
to the Jewish underground to help plot against the
Fuhrer. Lilly is a devoted mother and German housewife
whose husband is temporarily situated on the
Eastern Front. In his absence, she pursues extra-marital
affairs. An unusual and passionate love between
them blossoms despite the dangers of persecution. The
Gestapo is on Felice's trail and, one day in August
1944, as they wait in Lilly's flat, events take a tragic
course. Based on a true story. A discussion will follow
the screening.
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7:00PM
Baycrest Wagman Centre, Posluns Auditorium
55 Ameer Avenue, Toronto
Contact: 416-785-2500 x2388
FROM DESTRUCTION THROUGH SURVIVAL TO STRENGTH: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF THE JEWISH SPIRIT
World-renowned violinist and child of Hungarian
Holocaust survivors, MOSHE HAMMER was born
in Budapest, raised and educated in Israel. After
graduating from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel
Aviv University, he studied briefly at the Julliard
School in New York and later with Yehudi Menuhin.
As a student of Jascha Heifetz, Mr. Hammer was a
medal winner at the Concours Jacques Thibaud in
Paris. Admired for his artistic style, unique interpretations
and vibrant tones, he remains one of
Canada's most sought-after violinists, with concert
tours taking him across Canada, North America,
Israel, the Far East and Europe.
Praised by critics and audiences for her warm,
passionate and expressive singing, SHOSHANA
FRIEDMAN-BRAZEAU trained in the art of bel
canto singing with her father, Israel Friedman, and
was a long-time student of the late Metropolitan
Opera baritone, Louis Quilico. Her extensive
concert career has included concerts here and
abroad and her many stage credits include Violetta
in La Traviata and Musetta in La Boheme. She sang
the Canadian Premiere of Grigori Frid's onewoman
opera, The Diary of Anne Frank, to great
critical acclaim and repeated her performance in
Prague, The Czech Republic.
Generously co-sponsored by Joe Gottdenker, in memory of
David Zuckerbrot (1917-2005), Holocaust survivor and
educator; and by Helen Stollar, in loving memory of her
late husband, Jack Stollar. The UJA Federation Holocaust
Centre of Toronto is grateful to Remenyi House of Music
for their generous support.
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 7:30PM
Beth Tzedec Congregation
1700 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-781-3514 x34
CROSSING SWORDS WITH HITLER: A JEWISH LAWYER CONFRONTS HITLER IN COURT
DOUGLAS G. MORRIS is a New York trial attorney
and an historian. His book, Justice Imperiled, is the
story of the brilliant lawyer Max Hirschberg, one
of Germany's most courageous
defenders of justice in the face of
Hitler's rise to power.
Hirschberg lived an extraordinary
life at a defining moment in
German and European history.
Throughout the Weimar period,
Hirschberg squared off in court
against Munich's conservatives, reactionaries and
Nazis - twice facing Hitler himself, as well as
Hitler's lawyer, Hans Frank, later the infamous
Governor-General of Poland. By the time Hirschberg
fled Nazi Germany in 1934, he had argued a series
of cases in Munich's courtrooms that shed light
on the history of "political justice" in pre-Nazi
Germany and, by extension, the miscarriage of
justice in all Western democracies. In his legal
battles, Hirschberg tested the limits of democracy's
tolerance and the fragility of law in a society under
siege. This lecture centers on Hirschberg's representation
of members of the Social Democratic
Party of Germany (SPD) and an SPD newsletter
against libel suits brought by Hitler. Introductory
remarks will be delivered by THE HON. R. ROY
McMURTRY, Chief Justice of Ontario. See page 28
for information on "Lawyers Without Rights," an
exhibit highlighting the destruction of the legal
justice system in Germany after 1933 and the fate of
Jewish lawyers.
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal
Republic of Germany, the Consulate General of Israel and the Max & Beatrice Wolfe Library and Beth Tzedec Adult Education Committee.
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7:30PM
Chapters
2225 Bloor Street West (at Runnymede), Toronto
Contact: 416-761-9773
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
DR. FELICIA CARMELLY was born in 1931 in
Romania. At the age of ten, she was deported to the
Nazi camps in Transnistria and returned home in 1945.
Not only did she experience the evil of the Nazis but
she also encountered the brutalities of Communism.
Eventually she managed to emigrate from Communist
Romania to Israel and later came to Canada. Her talk
will describe the fate of about half a million victims,
mostly Jewish, who perished in hundreds of camps
under the control of Romanian Fascist armies and
their Ukrainian collaborators. Her lecture is based
on research from five languages for her three-times
award-winning book Shattered! 50 Years of Silence, History
and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria.
A question and answer period will follow.
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7:30PM
Chapters
Kennedy Commons
20 William Kitchen Road, Scarborough
Contact: 416-335-4311
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Holocaust survivor VERA SCHIFF, award-winning
author of Hitler's Inferno: Eight Intimate and Personal
Histories from the Holocaust and Theresienstadt:
The Town the Nazis Gave to the Jews, will discuss her
personal experiences during the Holocaust. Vera was
born in 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was
deported in 1942 to Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration
camp, where several members of her family
died. She remained there for three years and was
liberated by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945. The sole
survivor of her family, she lived in Israel for 12 years
and came to Canada in 1961. A question and answer
period will follow.
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