Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
7:30PM - OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM
 The Holocaust: From the Rule of Law to the Nightmare of Oppression - and Back Again
10:00AM
Through the Eyes of Students: A Reflection on the March of the Living
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 7:30PM
Beth Tzedec Congregation
1700 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Contact: 416-781-3514 x34
THE HOLOCAUST: FROM THE RULE OF LAW TO THE NIGHTMARE OF OPPRESSION - AND BACK AGAIN
Justice and righteousness have always occupied a central role in
Judaism. By 1933 an unusually high percentage of German Jews were
active in the legal profession. When Hitler took over in 1933, under the "Law for the Restoration of Professionalism in the Civil Service," all Jewish lawyers were disbarred exceipt for WWI veterans and those in practice pre 1920 [in 1938 all exemptions were removed]. The German legal system was reduced to a travesty.
Former Ontario Premier BOB RAE will discuss how the Nazis twisted
the idea of the rule of law, how law was used as an instrument of
oppression from 1933 to 1945, and how the Nuremberg Laws became
the Nuremberg Trials. He will also discuss how broad concepts of
international and humanitarian law are essential to our ideas of justice
in today's world.
Mr. Rae is a partner at Goodmans LLP. He served as Ontario's 21st
Premier, and was elected eight times to federal and provincial
parliaments before his retirement from politics in 1996. He is currently
a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. A Rhodes
Scholar and a recipient of numerous honourary degrees and awards, he is also an Adjunct Professor at the
University of Toronto and Senior Fellow of Massey College. Mr. Rae was appointed to Her Majesty's Privy Council
for Canada in 1998, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000 and an Officer of the Order of
Ontario in 2004.
Tonight's program coincides with the Toronto opening of the highly-acclaimed exhibit Lawyers Without Rights:
The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany After 1933. The exhibit, originally mounted by the German Federal Bar and
German Jurists Association, is sponsored by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. It runs
throughout Holocaust Education Week. To book a tour, call Joyce Rifkind at (416)635-2883 x114 or e-mail jrifkind@ujafed.org.
Our opening program is generously co-sponsored by George and Eleanor Getzler, Larry and Bonnie Moncik and their
families, in loving memory of their parents, Abraham and Ida Moncik; by the Sarah Pasht Holocaust Memorial Fund, in
loving memory of Sarah Pasht and Jean Nerenberg, sisters and survivors; and, the Teddy Tourney.
It is also made
possible by the support of The Nicholas M. & Hedy J. Munk Annual Memorial Endowed Lecture, The Pearl Gertrude Brody
Annual Memorial Lecture & The Reuben & Helene Dennis Museum of Beth Tzedec.
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7:30PM
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
1630 Lawrence Avenue West, Toronto
Contact: 416-249-8851
A CHILD'S LIFE WITHOUT FUN: CONVERSATION WITH A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR
ADA WYNSTON, a Dutch Holocaust survivor, will
share her personal experiences during World War II.
Born in 1936 in Amsterdam, Holland, Ada and 231
other Jewish children were rescued from a Jewish day
care centre by the Dutch underground. At the age of
six, she went into hiding with Dutch-Reform Christian
families from 1942-1945. Altogether, 73 members of
her family were murdered in Sobibor and Auschwitz-
Birkenau death camps. She immigrated to Canada in
1957. A question and answer period will follow.
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