Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
7:00PM
Watermarks (FILM)
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
7:00PM
Paper Clips (FILM)
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
1:30PM
Paper Clips (FILM)
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
11:00AM
Watermarks (FILM)
7:30PM
Historical Roots of Antisemitism
That Led to the Holocaust
Monday, November 6th, 2006
7:00PM
Crossing Swords With Hitler: A Jewish
Lawyer Confronts Hitler in Court
7:00PM
My Personal Testimony & Kristallnacht
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
7:30PM | UPDATED TIME FROM PROGRAM BOOK
Digital Terrorism, Hate and
Holocaust Denial on the Internet
7:30PM
From Victims to Victors
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
2:00PM
Crossing Swords With Hitler: A Jewish
Lawyer Confronts Hitler in Court
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
9:00AM-3:00PM
3rd Annual Holocaust Education Symposium For Senior High School Students
7:00PM
Watermarks (FILM)
7:00PM
Kristallnacht Commemoration
7:10PM
Fateless (FILM)
7:30PM
Revisiting Whitwell With "Yids on Wheels"
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.
For program changes visit this website frequently or call our hotline at 416-631-5689.
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7:00PM
Beth Israel Congregation
775 Weller Street, Peterborough
Contact: 705-743-8671
WATERMARKS (FILM)
Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers
of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah, in
Vienna. It was founded in 1909 in response to the
notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian
sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. The Nazis
shut down the club in 1938 and the swimmers
managed to flee the country before the War. Sixty five
years later, 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, a journey that evokes
memories of youth, struggle and triumph. Some English,
Hebrew and German with subtitles. Visit www.kino.com/watermarks for more
about Watermarks.
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7:00PM
Am Shalom Congregation
767 Huronia Road. Barrie
Contact: 705-792-3949
PAPER CLIPS (FILM)
This film is about the students of Whitwell Middle School
in rural Whitwell, Tennessee who, in 1998, embarked on
a project to collect six million paper clips - one for each of
the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust – to learn
about cultural diversity in a small community almost
exclusively white and Christian.
The project generated an
international outpouring of support and encouragement.
Educator and writer MARILYN HERBERT will facilitate
a discussion following the screening. Visit www.paperclipsmovie.com for more
about Paper Clips.
Co-sponsored by St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church, with
generous cooperation from the Political Action Committee of
Simcoe County Elementary Teachers' Federation.
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1:30PM
Warnica Public School
211 Warnica Road, Barrie
Contact: 705-722-3000
PAPER CLIPS (FILM)
This film is about the students of Whitwell Middle School
in rural Whitwell, Tennessee who, in 1998, embarked on
a project to collect six million paper clips - one for each of
the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust – to learn
about cultural diversity in a small community almost
exclusively white and Christian.
The project generated an
international outpouring of support and encouragement.
Educator and writer MARILYN HERBERT will facilitate
a discussion following the screening of this film. Visit www.paperclipsmovie.com for more
about Paper Clips.
Co-sponsored by St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church; and
Simcoe County Elementary Teacher’s Federation.
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11:00AM
Sons of Jacob Congregation
211 Victoria Avenue, Belleville
Contact: 613-962-1433
WATERMARKS (FILM)
Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers
of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah, in
Vienna. It was founded in 1909 in response to the
notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian
sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. The Nazis
shut down the club in 1938 and the swimmers
managed to flee the country before the War. Sixty five
years later, 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, a journey that evokes
memories of youth, struggle and triumph. Some English,
Hebrew and German with subtitles.
Educator and writer MARILYN HERBERT will facilitate
a discussion following the screening of this film. Visit www.kino.com/watermarks for more
about Watermarks.
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7:30PM
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
1107 Main Street West, Hamilton
Contact: 905-527-0877
HISTORICAL ROOTS OF ANTISEMITISM THAT LED TO THE HOLOCAUST
DR. ARNOLD AGES is Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of French Language and Literature at the University of
Waterloo. He has published five books and 90 scholarly
papers on various aspects of French intellectual history,
particularly the Age of Enlightenment. Professor Ages
served on the founding committee of the Jewish Studies
Program at the University of Waterloo.
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7:00PM
Congregation B'nai Israel
190 Church Street, St. Catherines
Contact: 905-685-6767
CROSSING SWORDS WITH HITLER: A JEWISH LAWYER CONFRONTS HITLER IN COURT
DOUGLAS G. MORRIS is a New York trial attorney
and an historian. He has spent most of his legal career
helping people in trouble and fighting for the principle
of fairness. 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.
A question and answer period will follow his lecture on
Mr. Hirschberg.
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7:00PM
Shaar Hashomayim Congregation
158 John Street, Sudbury
Contact: 705-524-6789
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
AND KRISTALLNACHT
Holocaust survivor and educator MAX EISEN was born
in Moldava, Czechoslovakia. He and his family were
deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Max survived a
death march to Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee and
was liberated on May 6, 1945 by the U.S. Black Tank
Battalion, a segregated unit under the command of
General George S. Patton. The documentary, Come Out
Fighting – The 761st, the true story of this battalion, will
be screened during the program. A question and answer
period will follow.
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7:30PM Updated time from program bookBeth Israel Congregation 775 Weller Street, Peterborough Contact: 705-743-8671DIGITAL TERRORISM, HATE AND HOLOCAUST DENIAL ON THE INTERNET
MICHAEL ETTEDGUI is an educator with the Friends of
Simon Wiesenthal Center in Toronto. He will explore the
contemporary issue of “Digital Hate on the Internet”. This
program breaks new ground by exposing how the Internet
is used as a virtual classroom for Holocaust denial and
terrorist training. See page 3 for more details.
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7:30PM
Adas Israel Synagogue
125 Cline Avenue South, Hamilton
Contact: 905-528-0039
FROM VICTIMS TO VICTORS
PETER SILVERMAN was born in 1924 in Jody, Poland.
He spent six months in a ghetto and in a slave labour
camp. After witnessing the massacre of his town's Jewish
population, he managed to escape and spent eight months
in hiding. He later joined the Jewish-Russian Partisan
Brigade and actively participated in armed resistance. He
is the co-author of From Victims to Victors. As part of his
presentation, he will show a brief documentary, Partisans,
about the role of the tens of thousands of unknown
heroes, the Jewish Resistance fighters, who managed to
sabotage the Nazis during World War II. He will answer
questions about how these partisans lived, fought and
survived.
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7:00PM
Beth israel Congregation
116 Centre Street, Kingston
Contact: 613-542-5012
CROSSING SWORDS WITH HITLER: A JEWISH LAWYER CONFRONTS HITLER IN COURT
This program features DOUGLAS G. MORRIS, 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. See page 16 for more
information. A question and answer period will follow his
lecture on Mr. Hirschberg.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Kingston.
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9:00AM - 3:00PM
Congregation B'nai Israel
190 Church Street, St. Catherines
Contact: 905-685-6767
3rd ANNUAL HOLOCAUST EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Students will view the film Paper Clips and hear from
MICHAEL ETTEDGUI, Education Associate with the
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Toronto. Mr.
Ettedgui will explore the contemporary issue of “Digital
Hate on the Internet” through an educational program
developed by the Wiesenthal Center. In the afternoon,
participants will be divided into smaller groups to hear
from Holocaust survivors, listen to their incredible
narratives of survival and starting life over after
Liberation.
Registration for this event is handled exclusively
through the District School Board of Niagara: contact Howard
Slepkov at 905-688-1016 for more information.
Co-sponsored by the District School Board of Niagara.
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7:00PM
Beth Zion Synagogue
Whitby Public Library
405 Dundas Street West, Whitby
Contact: 905-668-6531
WATERMARKS (FILM)
Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers
of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah, in
Vienna. It was founded in 1909 in response to the
notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian
sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. The Nazis
shut down the club in 1938 and the swimmers
managed to flee the country before the War. Sixty five
years later, 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, a journey that evokes
memories of youth, struggle and triumph. Some English,
Hebrew and German with subtitles.
Educator and writer MARILYN HERBERT will facilitate
a discussion following the screening. Visit www.kino.com/watermarks for more
about Watermarks.
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7:00PM
University of Guelph-Jewish Students Organization
University Centre Building
50 Stone Road, Guelph
Contact: jso@guelph.ca
KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION
A Jewish community commemoration of the 68th
anniversary of Kristallnacht – The Night of Broken Glass.
MAX EISEN, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee
and Melk concentration camps, will offer his personal
testimony about the Holocaust and how it forever
changed his life and that of his family. Max is the recipient
of the 2004 Humanitarian Award from the Friends of
Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
Co-sponsored by Beth Isaiah Synagogue.
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7:10PM
Westdale Theatre
1014 King Street West, Hamilton
Contact: 905-522-7173
FATELESS (FILM)
Based on the 2002 Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz's
novel about an Hungarian Jewish boy's experiences in
Nazi concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile
himself to those experiences after the War. The film
distinguishes itself from other Holocaust films by focusing
on the internal struggle to fight for the soul's survival
in the midst of horrific circumstances where physical
survival seems to depend on chance. Kristallnacht
Commemoration. Tickets: $10; seniors and students: $8.
Co-sponsored by Monte and Madeleine Levy; and the Art Gallery
of Hamilton.
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7:30PM
Congregation B'nai Israel
190 Church Street, St. Catherines
Contact: 905-685-6767
REVISITING WHITWELL
WITH "YIDS ON WHEELS"
The story of Paper Clips takes place in a school in Whitwell,
Tennessee. This past spring, a group from Yids on Wheels
revisited Whitwell to pay their respects to the students
and to thank them for bringing attention to the issues of
the Holocaust in a very unique way. Yids on Wheels is a
growing group of Jewish men and women who enjoy travelling
on their motorcycles. HOWARD and MARILYN
LACKIE were part of that group and, after the screening
of Paper Clips, will share some of their slides and memories.
Visit www.paperclipsmovie.com for more
about Paper Clips.
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