MIRIAM FRANKEL, will tell her personal story of growing up in a loving Jewish home and how, after her family's expulsion from Fascist Italy, found themselves trapped in Hungarian-occupied Czechoslovakia for the next four years. Her father was taken to a forced labour camp and, when he returned, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. Surviving two additional concentration camps, Miriam was liberated in Salzwedel, Germany in 1945. The sole survivor of her family, Miriam came to Canada as a Jewish war orphan in 1948.

THE IMPORTANCE OF HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND REMEMBRANCE TODAY

JOAN SHAPERO, Co-Chair of the Holocaust Education Committee of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto, will discuss why we still need to learn from the past in order to confront the dangers of the present. She served as Co-Chair of the annual Holocaust Education Week for four years and currently is the Chair of the Education Outreach sub-committee. 

This lecture is part of an INTERFAITH SERIES on Understanding Judaism.