Liberation75 Virtual Holocaust Library

Liberation75 Film Festival, 2021: Introductions & Interviews (26)

Explore memoirs of survivors, who found themselves liberated but not free, as they tried to decide where to live and waited to immigrate. “Free to Wait: Refugees & Returning to Life” will explore the challenges that Jewish Holocaust survivors, young people and adults, faced immediately after World War II. Jody Spiegel will amplify the voices of Holocaust survivors through the reading of excerpts from memoirs. Dr. Joanna Sliwa will focus on children in postwar Krakow, Poland, and how they experienced liberation and struggled to resume their lives. Dr. Elizabeth Anthony will discuss the decisions of survivors about returning to Vienna, Austria, and how expectations and reality shaped their lives. Dr. Adara Goldberg will examine the immigration and integration of survivors in Canada and the role of organizations in facilitating the adaptation of refugees into their new home.

Dr. Elizabeth Anthony is the Director of Visiting Scholar Programs at USHMM’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Anthony was co-editor of Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service, the 2015 Yearbook of the International Tracing Service. Elizabeth has published chapters in Lessons and Legacies Volume XII (2017); The Future of Holocaust Memorialization: Confronting Racism, Antisemitism, and Homophobia through Memory Work (2015); and more .Her book, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust, is forthcoming. Elizsbeth received her PhD in history at Clark University and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland. Among a number of fellowship awards, Anthony was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant (Austria) and a Mandel Center research fellowship.

Dr. Adara Goldberg is the Director of the Holocaust Resource Center and Diversity Council on Global Education and Citizenship at Kean University (Union, NJ). She earned her doctorate in Holocaust History at Clark University, and has since held fellowships at Hebrew University and Stockton University. Adara has served as Education Director for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center. She received the Marsid Foundation Prize at the 2016 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards. Dr. Goldberg’s book, Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947–1955, represented the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement and integration experiences of 35,000 Holocaust survivors and their families in postwar Canada. Adara's current research projects explore the phenomenon of post-genocidal familial reconstruction, and the role of national apologies in collective memory.

Dr. Joanna Sliwa is Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). Her own research focuses on the Holocaust in Poland and on Polish Jewish history. Joanna has taught at Kean University and Rutgers University, and served as an educator in teacher training programs on the Holocaust. She has worked as a researcher, translator, and consultant for projects ranging from academic texts to websites, films, TV programs, and exhibits. Joanna’s first book, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust will be published by Rutgers University Press in fall 2021. The book has received the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust Library. Joanna is working on a new book, Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Mathematician Who Rescued Poles during the Holocaust, co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth (Barry) White, a senior historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Jody Spiegel is the Director of the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program at the Azrieli Foundation. After Osgoode Law School, Jody joined the program at its inception and has worked with her team to publish over 115 survivor stories including many award-winning publications. She is the Executive Producer of Re:Collection, an interactive experience that invites users to explore the first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors and the Azrieli Series of Short Films, which features stories and animated excerpts from memoirs written by Canadian Holocaust survivors. Jody has been a Canadian delegate of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) since 2014, representing Canadian expertise in areas of pedagogy, first person accounts and Holocaust distortion in the classroom. She will chair the Education Working Group of the IHRA in 2022.

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TEHORAH טהורה (Hebrew for "Pure") - subtitled.

Composed and written exclusively by Jewish composers and lyricists.
Performed by Adrienne Haan (Musical Direction and Script); Heinz Walter Florin (grand piano); and the Diplomatic String Quartet Berlin: Matthias Hummel (1st violin); Dr. Felix Klein (2nd violin); Ernst Herzog (viola); Ariane Spiegel (cello).

Sponsored by the German Consulate General in Toronto

Composed and written exclusively by Jewish composers and lyricists, this concert is a musical voyage that starts with the thriving Jewish culture of 1920s Berlin during the Weimar Republic, and ends with music from the Promised Land - Israel.

"Tehorah," which means "pure" in Hebrew, is a heartbreaking, promising musical story about war, loss, hope, love and forgiveness. Sung in German, Yiddish and Hebrew. Performed by Adrienne Haan, Heinz Walter Florin on piano, and the Diplomatic String Quartet Berlin. Filmed at the Chamber Music Hall at the Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany. First performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the concert commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust and encourages peace among all nations.

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World Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants Reunion

Led by Child Survivor Speakers, Stefanie Seltzer (President) & Daisy Miller (Vice President); and Second Generation Speaker, Dr. Charles Silow.

This program will review the development and the underlying reasons for the creation of the World Federation, why Child Survivors felt compelled to form an organization that would give them the freedom to speak about their experiences, to give themselves a voice. Child Holocaust Survivors were not thought to have memories of the tragedies that they experienced in their young lives. The World Federation helped create a community, a family, for Child Survivors to come together to express themselves and allow their voices to be heard.

The tremendous impact of the Holocaust has continued to reverberate through the generations. Over the years, the WFJCSHD has grown to accept and integrate Children of Survivors and later, the Third Generation into the organization. The importance of coming together as a family at its’ annual gatherings, has enabled the survivor community to share and learn with one another, and to help enable healing and peace.

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Resilience in Children & Grandchildren of Survivors

Featuring Dr. Yonit Hoffman, generously sponsored by Anette & Larry Goldstein

This presentation centers on how survivors’ strengths and “resilient identities” can arise from trauma and be carried through the generations. She will discuss how her clinical work with Holocaust survivors and descendants, as well as her own family’s history, have informed and shaped her research and understanding of this “intergenerational transmission of resilience.” Research on vulnerabilities and strengths of 2Gs & 3Gs, including the concept of epi-genetics and “post-traumatic growth” will be discussed. Dr. Hoffman’s interdisciplinary research with linguist Judith Kaplan-Weinger developed a paradigm of Individual, Relational and Collective facets of resilient identity evident in the narratives of survivors and descendants. Excerpts will be shared which illustrate how these types of resilience are transmitted through shared stories and shared attributes. If time allows, there will be an interactive exercise to consider one’s own resilient identity, possible inter-generational origins, and how such strengths may be carried forward to future generations.

Dr. Yonit Hoffman is the Director of Holocaust Community Services (HCS) at CJE SeniorLife in Chicago, IL. She oversees all program development and service provision for nearly 2,000 Holocaust survivors, supervises clinical, care management and administrative staff, and provides direct services and support groups for survivors and their families. She has served as a key facilitator in establishing community partnerships to build resources and capacity to support survivors. Dr. Hoffman has conducted numerous national and community education and trainings for professionals, lay leaders and caregivers on person-centered, trauma-informed care and the special needs of aging Holocaust survivors. Dr. Hoffman received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Her clinical research included studies on resilience and identity in Holocaust survivors and their descendants, which she has presented and published both nationally and internationally. Dr. Hoffman is a second and third generation descendant of Holocaust survivors and victims.

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American Witnesses: Eyewitness Film Footage at Liberation

Featuring Lindsay Zarwell, USHMM

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's American Witnesses exhibition presents selections from private films taken by American soldiers who documented the effects of persecution and Nazi atrocities in liberated areas of Europe with their personal movie cameras. A film archivist will discuss how such amateur films complicate, contradict, and add nuance to the official film canon, which has defined how the events of the Holocaust have been visualized in the postwar years.

Lindsay Zarwell has worked as a film archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2000 where she acquires, conserves, and manages historic media. She is particularly focused on collecting and interpreting amateur film collections and preserving the Claude Lanzmann SHOAH archive. She also develops archival strategies and digital workflows for the recorded sound and music collections. Lindsay was instrumental in launching the first web-based catalog with streaming video for public access to Holocaust film footage and continues to advance digital access to historic time-based media collections.

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Interview with Schindler's List author, Thomas Keneally

SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This interview with author Thomas Keneally played after the film.

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

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Introduction to 116 CAMERAS (2017)

116 CAMERAS (2017), directed by Davina Pardo, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This introduction played prior to the film.

Holocaust Survivor Eva Schloss preserves her story interactively so that she will be able to tell it forever.

Co-sponsored by the Claims Conference. Introductions by Davina Pardo, Director & Elizabeth Edelstein, Vice President for Education at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

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Introduction to A MAN ESCAPED (1956)

A MAN ESCAPED (1956), directed by Robert Bresson, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This introduction played prior to the film.

A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.

Introduction by Steven Carr, Professor and Graduate Program Director at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

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Introduction to BLACK BOOK (2006)

BLACK BOOK (2006), directed by Paul Verhoeven, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This introduction played prior to the film.

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Introduction by Adam Nayman, film critic, author and lecturer at University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

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Introduction to CHEATING HITLER (2019)

CHEATING HITLER (2019), directed by Rebecca Snow, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This introduction played prior to the film.

Three Canadian Holocaust survivors journey to hometowns, killing sites, archives and hiding places in search of clues to unanswered questions from their pasts.

Co-sponsored by the Claims Conference. Introduction by director Rebecca Snow. Post-film panel with Rebecca, Producer Steve Gamester and the survivors featured in the film.

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Introduction to COME AND SEE (1985)

COME AND SEE (1985), directed by Elem Klimov, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This introduction played prior to the film.

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Introduction by lead actor Aleksey Kravchenko.

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Introduction to DENIAL (2016)

DENIAL (2016), directed by Mick Jackson, was featured in Liberation75's Film Festival, 2021. This introduction played prior to the film.

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

Introduction by historian, Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt.

Aiding Survivors & Humanitarian Efforts (6)

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The Last Survivors: Echoes from the Holocaust

Presented by The Survivor Mitzvah Project.

The compelling story of The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s heroic efforts to bring emergency aid to the last Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe, who are in desperate need. Live from Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance. The award-winning cast, Edward Asner, Elliott Gould, Frances Fisher, Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan, Alan Rosenberg, give voice to the survivors’ stories in powerful and moving performances. With CNN HERO Zane Buzby, The Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Founder. ©Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved.

Written Directed by Zane Buzby, Edited by Bobby Richards and Ryan Cooper, Starring Edward Asner, Elliott Gould, Frances Fisher, Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan, Randal Keith, Arnold McCuller, Alan Rosenberg, and Consul General of Israel David Siegel. Produced by Conan Berkeley & Zane Buzby.

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The Survivor Mitzvah Project's Emergency Aid Expedition in Moldova

Kindness and Compassion - the most important things in life. The Survivor Mitzvah Project supports thousands of Holocaust survivors in 9 countries who have nowhere else to turn to for help. We supply food, medicine, heat and shelter. We also ensure survivors who have been silenced for decades have their stories recorded for future generations in SMP’s Holocaust Educational Archive. Join us as we travel through Moldova and Transnistria. © Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved.

The Survivor Mitzvah Project's efforts include providing continuous financial aid to ill, impoverished and forgotten Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe who are suffering and in desperate need of food, medicine, heat and shelter – and encouraging people to donate. Their Holocaust Educational Archive (over 500 hours of never-before-seen video testimonies, and over 20,000 documents, photographs, and life histories) presents a unique opportunity for Holocaust/Jewish Heritage studies.

FILMMAKER: Jason Tongen,
Camera by Jason Tongen and Wayland Bell.
Featuring SMP founder Zane Buzby and SMP guide and translator Liudmila Petrovna Makedonskaya.

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The Survivor Mitzvah Project: Why We Go

A more hopeful final chapter to the Holocaust, one of kindness, compassion and love. The Survivor Mitzvah Project is an urgent humanitarian effort bringing lifesaving aid to Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe in need of food, medicine, heat and shelter, ensuring that no survivor who has endured the darkest days of human history ever be hungry, cold, or neglected again. 100% of donations go directly to a survivor in need. © Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved.

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The Claims Conference: Global Initiatives for Survivors and a Look to the Future

Featuring Greg Schneider & Gideon Taylor

Gregory Schneider was appointed Executive Vice President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in 2009. A passionate advocate for Holocaust survivors, he joined the Claims Conference in 1995 as an assistant to the then Executive Vice President, becoming Director of Allocations and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Schneider has overseen the creation and implementation of several Claims Conference individual compensation payment programs for Jewish victims of Nazism. Chief among these was the Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers, which paid $1.6 billion to 173,000 Holocaust survivors in 87 countries, the result of distributing and processing applications in eight languages, working with hundreds of local organizations worldwide that assisted applicants, and helping document tens of thousands of claims that otherwise would have been deemed ineligible. Mr. Schneider also guided the creation of many additional programs to compensate victims such as the victims of Nazi medical experiments, former refugees to Switzerland, survivors of the Nazi occupation of Budapest, first-ever one-time payments to Nazi victims in the former Soviet Union, child survivors, and Kindertransport survivors.

Gideon Taylor was elected President of the Claims Conference in 2020. Mr. Taylor previously served as Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference as well as Associate Executive Vice President at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the overseas humanitarian arm of the American Jewish community. He directed rescue operations in Syria and Yemen and coordinated activities in Ethiopia. He also oversaw JDC’s International Development Program, which implemented major disaster relief, and development programs in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He subsequently managed the global program and the $250 million budget of the organization. Originally from Ireland, Mr. Taylor is a law graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and received his master’s degree in law from Oxford University. He is admitted as an attorney in the State of New York, Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 2013, Mr. Taylor became pro bono Chair of Operations of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), representing world Jewry in pursuing claims for the recovery of Jewish properties seized during the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. His work ensured the passage of legislation regarding heirless Jewish property in Serbia, former Jewish communal property in Romania and Latvia, and social welfare payments for Holocaust survivors from Poland.

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Trauma and Triumph in Survivor Families: Reflections on Resilience and Responsibility

The traumas visited upon Europe’s Jews during the Nazi occupation were unparalleled in scope and ferocity. All Jew were targeted: men, women, children, the aged and sick or disabled, the poor and the wealthy. The final act of murder was invariably preceded by humiliation and torture. In the case of children, only 7% living under Nazi domination, survived: 1.5 million were murdered. All survivors, adults and children, endured deprivation and loss along with unspeakable experiences, frequently for years on end. My relatively benign existence in hiding for 3 years as a child, has profoundly affected and influenced me and how I live and view the world. Wherein lies the triumph for those who have toiled in the shadow of the Shoah? I will discuss some aspects of resilience in the lives of well known and not so well known individuals who have succeeded beyond all expectations and predictions. In the process of confronting and valuing memory, survivors have had an extraordinary educational impact and created a legacy of meaningful contributions for succeeding generations.

Dr. Robert Krell was born in Holland and survived the Holocaust in hiding. The Krell family moved to Vancouver, Canada where he obtained an MD from the University of British Columbia and eventually became professor of psychiatry. Dr. Krell was Director of Child Psychiatry and also treated Holocaust survivors and their families as well as Dutch survivors of Japanese concentration camps. He established a Holocaust education program for high school students in 1976, an audio-visual documentation program recording survivor testimony in 1978 and assisted with the formation of child survivor groups starting in 1982. Dr. Krell served on the International Advisory Council of the Hidden Child Gathering in New York in 1991. He founded the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center which opened in 1994 and which teaches 20,000 students annually. He has received the State of Israel Bonds Elie Wiesel Remembrance Award, the Boston University Hillel Lifetime Achievement Award, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award as well as special recognition from the World Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. In 2020, he was awarded the Order of Canada. He has authored and co-edited ten books, twenty book chapters and over fifty journal articles.

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Eradicating Survivor Poverty: Providing for Holocaust Survivors Around the World

Featuring Yael Eckstein & Eli Rubinstein

Generously sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) of Canada.

Seventy-five years ago, one of the greatest atrocities in history came to an end. And 75 years later, countless survivors of the Holocaust still live in obscurity, poverty, and isolation. Join us as Yael Eckstein and Rabbi Eli Rubenstein explore the work that still needs to be done to address the tremendous damage that Nazi brutality inflicted on these survivors. This session will explore how the mission of building bridges between the Christian and Jewish communities has created a ground-breaking alliance raising thousands of Holocaust survivors out of poverty today. It is only through creating bonds of understanding that people of every background and faith can assure that “never again” remains a clear and pressing priority.

Yael Eckstein serves as the President and CEO of the U.S. and Israel organizations. She has also served on the Board of Directors for IFCJ Canada since 2015. In June 2019, following the unexpected death of her father, Rabbi Eckstein, she succeeded him in his role and became President of IFCJ Canada. Yael oversees all programs for The Fellowship while serving as the international spokesperson for the organization. A tireless advocate for the Jewish people, she has been a frequent and influential voice combatting anti-Semitism. Yael is a hands-on executive, often found greeting olim (immigrants) upon their arrival to Israel, sitting with elderly Holocaust survivors in their homes, or distributing food to those in need. Yael has been featured in The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, The Times of Israel, Fox News, the Religion News Service, and the Christian Broadcasting Network. In 2019, The Algemeiner named Yael to the Jewish 100, citing the positive influence she has made to Jewish life, and referring to her as “the world’s leading Jewish interfaith activist.” She was also named to The Jerusalem Post's "50 Most Influential Jews of 2020".

Eli Rubenstein is the National Director of The March of the Living Canada, an educational program that gathers thousands of Jewish youth from around the world in Poland and Israel to mark two of the most significant dates in the modern Jewish calendar. Eli is also the founder of the March of Remembrance and Hope, an educational initiative for college and university students of diverse faiths and ethnic backgrounds designed to teach about the grave consequences of hatred and prejudice through the study of the Holocaust in Poland & Germany. He is also religious leader at a Toronto synagogue founded by Holocaust survivors which sponsors Passover seders for the homeless and Holocaust education programs. In addition to his work with Holocaust education, Eli is a celebrated Jewish storyteller and President of the Israel Guide Dog Centre for the Blind. He has contributed his assistance to Veahavta, the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian Relief Organization, helping them organize their annual Passover Seder for the Homeless, and traveling on their behalf to Guyana and Zimbabwe to assist in their humanitarian work in these countries.

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The Last Survivors: Echoes from the Holocaust

Remembering Max Eisen (4)

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A Message From Max

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Holocaust Survivor: Max Eisen

Interviewed by Marilyn Sinclair.

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Holocaust Survivor: Max Eisen

Interviewed by Audrey Diamante.

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Writing Survival, Writing History: The Holocaust in Hungary

Featuring Nina Munk, Ferenc Laczo & Dr. Max Eisen

In a conversation moderated by the prize-winning journalist Nina Munk, survivor Dr. Max Eisen and professor Ferenc Laczó discuss the causes, unfolding, and consequences of the Holocaust in Hungary. Drawing on his acclaimed memoir, By Chance Alone, Mr. Eisen offers a firsthand account of a childhood upended and the resilience required to survive Auschwitz while Dr. Laczó, author of Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide, situates the so-called Last Chapter of the Holocaust amidst historiographic controversies. How do memoirist survivors of the Holocaust relate to interpretations by historians? How do memoirs by Holocaust survivors impact the way we write history?

Nina Munk is a journalist and author whose articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and many other publications. She is the author or co-author of four books, most recently The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. She is also the editor of How it Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry. Currently, as the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, Ms. Munk is working on work of narrative nonfiction about how her family survived the Holocaust in Hungary.

Ferenc Laczó is an assistant professor with tenure at the Department of History, Maastricht University. He is the author of several books and co-editor, most recently, of The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Volume 3: Intellectual Horizons (London: Routledge, 2020). His writings have appeared in twelve languages and been reviewed in over thirty publications.

Dr. Max Eisen was born on March 15, 1929 in Moldava and Bodvou, Slovakia. He is an author, public speaker and Holocaust educator. He travels throughout Canada giving talks about his experiences as a concentration camp survivor, to students, teachers, universities, law enforcement personnel, and the community at large. He has worked with the March of the Living, the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI). Max has been an active participant on the March of the Living, where he has gone back to Auschwitz-Birkenau with thousands of students, 18 times. In 2015-2016, Max testified in Germany at the trial of two former SS guards at Auschwitz: Reinhold Hanning and Oskar Gröning. Both were convicted at their trials.

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A Message From Max

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Holocaust Survivor: Max Eisen

Interviewed by Marilyn Sinclair.

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Holocaust Survivor: Max Eisen

Interviewed by Audrey Diamante.

Antisemitism (42)

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Antisemitism Today

Stephanie describes her experiences with antisemitism in her Ontario high school and the challenges of being targeted daily in school especially when her friends don't stand up for her. Stephanie leaves us with the message that we must all stand up against racism of every kind. Presented by Voices into Action.

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Antisemitism and Discrimination Today: How to Respond (Sharing Stories)

Featuring Penina Edery, StandWithUs Canada

Together, we will explore the very real experiences of students by sharing answers to, "Have you ever faced antisemitism or discrimination? How did you respond? Looking back now, would you have reacted differently?” The problem is growing and all of us need to know how to make a positive change. If you have students who would like to contribute meaningfully and talk with the group about their encounters with discrimination, please let us know (peninae@standwithus.com)!

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Antisemitism: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

In 2018, the world was rocked by the heinous shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Suddenly, the world was exposed to what Jews around the world have known all along - that antisemitism didn't disappear when the Holocaust ended. This short film discusses the impact of antisemitism on 3 generations in 3 countries - from the Holocaust to today.

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Antisemitism: You Can Make a Difference

Featuring Ilona Shulman Spaar, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

In this interactive workshop, students first learn about the diversity of Jewish communities and how they are affected by contemporary antisemitism. Students will then engage with historical examples of antisemitism and propaganda from the VHEC Collection, exploring how the Holocaust represents a paradigmatic genocide and the most severe consequences of hate and racism left unchecked. A main focus of the workshop is on contemporary forms of the hatred of Jews including recent events involving the far-right, white supremacists and Neo-Nazis, and how students can become allies against racism. By providing practical guidelines, this workshop demonstrates how students can enhance their media literacy skills to detect antisemitic tropes and how they can confront antisemitic comments, images and conspiracy theories such as QAnon and others when encountering these in person or online. The interactive workshop includes student activities such as an image analysis using the online Padlet platform, polls and forming student questions.

Ilona Shulman Spaar, PhD, is the Education Director and Curator of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC). She is in charge of the centre’s school programming, educational resources and professional development events for teachers. Ilona is the curator of the museums’ original exhibitions Treasured Belongings: The Hahn Family & the Search for a Stolen Legacy (2019), In Focus: The Holocaust Through the VHEC Collection (2018) and Faces of Survival: Photographs by Marissa Roth (2018).

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Combatting Online Hate & Antisemitism

Featuring Michal Cotler-Wunsh, MP Anthony Housefather, MP Marty Morantz & Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, moderated by Michael Mostyn

A discussion about increasing online antisemitism and online hatred, responses to this serious problem, and current efforts taking place across the globe to combat it. Speakers are all members of the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism, which includes legislators from Canada, Australia, Israel, the UK, and the USA. The Task Force's goals include the adoption and publication of transparent policies related to hate speech, raising awareness about antisemitism on social media platforms and its consequences, and holding social media platforms (e.g. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Google) accountable.

Michal Cotler-Wunsh is an Israeli politician. She served as a Member of the Knesset for the Blue and White party from 2020-2021. She serves as Chair of the Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Use, Chair of the Subcommittee on Israel-Diaspora Relations, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense, Law, Children’s Rights, Women’s Rights, Immigration and Integration Committees, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. Michal is also the Chair of the Canada-Israel Friendship Group, the Knesset’s Official Representative on Matters Related to the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the Chair of Knesset’s Caucus for Ethiopians in Israel.

Anthony Housefather is a Canadian politician, representing the Liberal Party. He is the Member of Parliament representing the riding of Mount Royal on the island of Montreal. From 2015 to 2019, Anthony served as the Chair of the Justice and Human Rights Committee. Following the 2019 election, he was named the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Marty Morantz is a Canadian politician, representing the Conservative Party. He represents Winnipeg's Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingly riding. In previous years, Marty served on the boards of Shalom Residences Assisted Living, the Jewish National Fund, the Jewish Federation (CJA) Charitable Allocations Committee, and many others.

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is an American politician serving as the US Representative from Florida's 23rd congressional district. She was first elected to congress in 2004, and is a member of the Democratic Party. Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz is also a former Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and a national campaign co-Chair for Hillary Clinton's 2008 run for president.

Michael Mostyn is the Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada and oversees the organization’s programming and advocacy initiatives. He also served as an official member of the Canadian Delegation to the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. Michael was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, in recognition of his community service to Canada.

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Combatting Online Hate & Antisemitism in Australia

Featuring MP Josh Burns & Michael Mostyn

Josh Burns is an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party, he was elected as a member for the Division of Macnamara in Melbourne in 2019. Josh's grandmother came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.

Michael Mostyn is the Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada and oversees the organization’s programming and advocacy initiatives. He also served as an official member of the Canadian Delegation to the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. Michael was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, in recognition of his community service to Canada.

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Covid-19, Antisemitism and Holocaust Memory in Israel

Featuring Dr. Liat Steir-Livny

The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. How did it affect Antisemitism and Holocaust memory? The first part of the talk will discuss the way the pandemic intensified Antisemitic representations in 2020 which were intertwined with anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli notions. The second part of the talk will discuss the ways the Holocaust has become a frame of reference in Israel for the interpretation of the COVID-19 pandemic and will center on the evolution of these references in the media, digital media and social media.

Dr. Liat Steir-Livny is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Cultural Studies, Creation and Production at Sapir College, and a tutor and course coordinator for the Cultural Studies MA program and the Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on the changing commemoration of the Holocaust in Israel from the 1940s until the present. She has authored numerous articles and five books: Two Faces in the Mirror (Eshkolot-Magness, 2009, Hebrew), Let the Memorial Hill Remember (Resling, 2014, Hebrew), Is it O.K to Laugh about it? (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017), Three Years, Two Perspectives, One Trauma (The Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, 2019, Hebrew) and Remaking Holocaust Memory (Syracuse University press, 2019). In 2019 she won The Young Scholar Award given jointly by the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) and the Israel Institute.

Archives & Preserving History (28)

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The Rape of Europa with Lynn H. Nicholas in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff

Lynn H. Nicholas, an author and a scholar of art offered a phenomenal exploration of the history and prevalence of art stolen by the Nazis which was horrifyingly done, yet completely legal at the time.

Nicholas’ interest and focus is in tracing the paths that these objects went on from their original owners. Her research encompasses the point that these masterpieces were stolen, then sometimes destroyed or sold and re-sold and sometimes miraculously eventually sent back to their owners and/or home countries.

The Nazis took coins, paintings, statues, church bells and so much more. Unfortunately, not everything has been recovered. Many pieces have been missing since the war ended and still are. As Nicholas said: “restitution after the war was never easy nor was it often fair”. She explained that amongst other challenges, the endless bureaucracy was the most difficult.

There were many thought provoking questions from the audience. Someone asked what percentage of art was returned. Lynn estimates that about 85 percent of the art was found and returned. However, so much is still being found. Another question from the audience was “Can you speak about current findings after publishing your book?” Nicholas shared with us several pieces of art including a Klimt that was recovered since the printing of her book. Finally, someone asked why Church bells were among the stolen items and Nicholas explained that they took the church items because they were going to melt them down to make war materials.

Presented by the Holocaust Institute at the University of Miami, School of Education & Human Development.

Lynn H. Nicholas is an independent researcher in the area of Nazi-era social and cultural history. She has testified before Congress on restitution issues and was a presenter at the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets in 1998 and a member of the US delegation to the Prague Conference in 2009. She has lectured at museums and universities both here and abroad and participated in many international symposia related to the wartime fate of works of art. Mrs. Nicholas holds the Legion d’Honneur from France and the Amicus Poloniae from Poland.

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After Auschwitz: Who Will Tell The History?

The University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute is proud to announce the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation: Holocaust/Jewish Themed Sunday Salon Series.

Dr. Stephen D. Smith and Rachael Cerrotti in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, December 5th, 2021.

For presenter bios, see: https://files.constantcontact.com/baa3a73f401/df811350-799b-49d7-bc83-f668aac7324b.pdf

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Testimony and Trauma: Introducing the Last Chance Collection

Every Holocaust survivor has a story, and so do their families. Join us for the launch of the Last Chance Collection, an initiative of USC Shoah Foundation to collect undocumented testimonies of Holocaust eyewitnesses. For the Canadian launch of this project, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Robert Krell will discuss with Dr. Kori Street how the Holocaust has impacted multiple generations of Holocaust families, and why it is so important to capture remaining testimonies before it is too late.

On Sunday, October 24, 2021, Liberation75 alongside USC Shoah Foundation and the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre hosted "Testimony and Trauma." This virtual event announced the Canadian launch of the Last Chance Collection and featured a discussion with Dr. Robert Krell, child Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist specializing in survivor trauma, and Dr. Kori Street, deputy executive director of USC Shoah Foundation. Introductions by Marilyn Sinclair, founder of Liberation75, and Nina Krieger, executive director of VHEC.

If you know a Canadian survivor who would like to record their testimony and has not yet been videotaped by USC Shoah Foundation (Steven Spielberg's foundation), please go to www.liberation75.org or contact info@liberation75.org.

We want to record your testimony if you:
- survived a camp or ghetto
- fled, hid, or were hidden
- were born in a Displaced Persons (refugee) camp
- were a North African or Middle Eastern refugee
- were a resistance fighter, liberator or rescuer
- have another Holocaust story that should be preserved.

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Inside The Glass Case: Trust No Fox

Daily life for Jewish people living in Germany began to look very different once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. Propaganda was a powerful tool used to spread Nazi Ideology and hateful antisemitic attitudes. Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath is an antisemitic children’s book. In Nazi German propaganda, both the fox and “the Jew” were seen as cunning creatures, neither of which could be trusted. The book was written by Elvira Bauer, an 18-year-old kindergarten teacher and Nazi supporter, and was illustrated by Fips (the penname of Philip Ruprecht), a frequent contributor of antisemitic cartoons to Der Stürmer. In ten nursery rhymes of propaganda, “Bauer wrote the book to explain Nazi racial ideology and expose Jews as evil creatures who cannot be trusted”, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In this piece of children’s literature, for all intents and purposes, “the Jew” is the antithesis of the German, and all for which he or she stands.

At the Holocaust Memorial Center, we have hundreds of artifacts and other items in our collection for our visitors to learn from. These objects tell stories and provide us with an opportunity to connect with the past. Take a look Inside the Glass Case and explore our artifacts through this on-demand museum experience. Inside the Glass Case offers educational videos, survivor testimony, photos, lesson plans, and other resources that will engage, educate, and empower you and your students.

Aliza Tick -- Script & Project Manager
Video -- Flow Video
Ned Spektor -- Host
Katrina Finkelstein -- Book Narrator

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What Do University Students Know About the Holocaust?

Jerry Amernic asks university students what they know about the Holocaust and World Wars. Their answers may alarm you.

Jerry Amernic is an author of fiction and non-fiction books. He is the author of the novel The Last Witness (Story Merchant Books, Los Angeles, 2014) which is about the last living survivor of the Holocaust in a near-future world ignorant of history. After one publisher turned it down because they didn’t buy his premise about people being so ignorant of the Holocaust one generation from now, he produced this viral video. It was shown at an international conference of Holocaust scholars and historians in Poland, and is in the film library at Yad Vashem, the Center for Holocaust research in Jerusalem. Learn more at: www.jerrythenovelist.com

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The Future of Survivor Communities

Presented by Generations of the Shoah International

Generations of The Shoah International is a worldwide network of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, linked together with the common goals of preserving and honoring our legacy, sharing resources and programming ideas, providing emotional support to our members, and tackling issues of mutual interest. GSI invites all descendants to attend this unique gathering. Led by Esther Toporek Finder, Founder of GSI, and Ken Engel, Coordinating Council Member for GSI.

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Ośrodek Brama Grodzka–Teatr NN (The Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre Centre)

Presented by Leora Tec, Founder & Director, Bridge To Poland, and Creator & Producer, The Neshoma Project

Ośrodek Brama Grodzka–Teatr NN (The Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre Centre) is a municipal institution in Lublin, Poland that is committed to the remembrance of the Jews of Lublin and is staffed entirely by non-Jewish Poles. In the video, you hear the voice of Brama Grodzka founder and director, Tomasz Pietrasiewicz.

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Welcoming Shabbat with Songs from Yonina

A 30-minute Kaballat Shabbat concert on acoustic guitar & piano.

"Yonina” (a combination of our names -Yoni and Nina Tokayer) began from the moment we met, on a beautiful balcony in Tzfat, Israel. We had both been pursuing music our entire lives, and once we met we began dreaming about making music together. We are an Israeli-American musical duo who first started sharing our music through weekly home videos posted to social media. Since we first began posting our videos in 2016, our music has reached millions of viewers, with the record being our cover of “One Day” which had over 40 million views from around the globe. In September of 2017 we released our debut album, "Emet Pshuta" (Simple Truth), with original hit songs like “Ahava”, “Rega Mechuvan”, “Seriously” and “Shir Shel Boker”. For the past three years we’ve been performing throughout Israel, the US and Europe, in both large-scale concerts and private events. Currently, we’re working on our second album and continuing to write & record music, perform and produce music videos. We've been married for four years and have two sweet children- Ashira (3) and Achiya Yehuda (1)- who make guest appearances in our videos. We live in the rural city of Pardes Chana in Northern Israel.

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These, I Remember: Closing Performance

A musical presentation with Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto & Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company, featuring world-renowned performers.

This performance will sum up the emotional topics explored in Liberation75's programs, and inspire the continuation of Holocaust education and remembrance as we lose the last of our Survivors. Created by the same team that created the provocative and highly successful Slichot services for Temple Sinai and The Harold Green Jewish Theatre, These, I Remember will be based on three pillars of Holocaust remembrance: Education, Never Again (for the Jews or anyone else), and The State of Israel.

Produced by Cantor Charles Osborne, performers include Theresa Tova, Gabi Epstein, Jake Epstein, David Eisner Avery Saltzman, Amy Sky and violinist Moshe Hammer. Joining them will be the Temple Sinai’s Rabbi Michael Dolgin, the Temple Sinai Holiday Choir directed by Ross Inglis, and the Temple Sinai L’Dor Vador Youth Choir directed by Cantor Sharon Brown-Levy. A 12-piece orchestra will be conducted by the Harold Green Jewish Theatre music director, Mark Camilleri. Included will be music written especially for this program by Amy Sky and Charles Osborne.

Generously sponsored by Martha and David Z"L Sud Family

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The Rape of Europa with Lynn H. Nicholas in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff

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The Holocaust in the Fiction and Memoirs of Chava Rosenfarb

Featuring Professor Goldie Morgentaler

Chava Rosenfarb was one of the great chroniclers of the Holocaust in Poland, who is little known outside Yiddish-language circles because she wrote primarily in Yiddish. While some of her novels and stories have been translated into English, such as the epic three-volume The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto, not all of her works have been translated. This presentation by her daughter and translator will offer an overview of Rosenfarb's life and work by way of introducing this important Canadian-Jewish writer to an audience that may be unfamiliar with her work. The talk will provide an overview of the novelist's life and her experiences during the Holocaust before discussing her fiction, including the trilogy, The Tree of Life, and the Bergen-Belsen diary that she wrote and published after her liberation from that camp.

Goldie Morgentaler is Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She is the translator from Yiddish to English of Chava Rosenfarb's work including Rosenfarb’s seminal Holocaust novel, The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto. Her translation of Rosenfarb’s book of short stories, Survivors: Seven Short Stories won a Canadian Jewish Book Award as well as the Modern Language Association’s Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies. She is also the editor and translator of Rosenfarb's book of essays called Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays, published by McGill-Queens University Press in 2019. This collection won a 2019 Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Both of her parents were Holocaust survivors.

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TEHORAH טהורה (Hebrew for "Pure") - subtitled.

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Past and Present: The Impact of Holocaust Art and Literature

Featuring Larry Mikulcik, Fighting Antisemitism Together (FAST)

The Past and Present workshop will see students actively engage in an examination and reflection of Holocaust arts using video, artwork, and poetry to enhance their understanding of the Holocaust. Students will examine how art and literature during the Holocaust was an important means for the Jews to assert their humanity, act as resistance, remember others, and to provide evidence/testimony. Students will also assess how Holocaust art today continues to impact, to educate, to commemorate, and to give us the opportunity to interpret the Holocaust. Students will learn about Daniel Libeskind’s Holocaust monuments and memorials giving us entry into a permanent space of memory and values. The workshop will conclude by exploring ways in which the victims of the Holocaust are remembered so that students will understand the importance of reinforcing memory through memorialization.

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Immortality, Memory, Creativity and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana

Starting with the Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana, the lecture investigates three generations of the Cahana family and their art: Alice Lok Cahana was primarily a painter, Ronnie Cahana is a poet, and Kitra Cahana is a well-recognized photographer and filmmaker. Since these three artists represent three generations from within one family, the question of how that familial relationship does or does not impinge on the artistic output will be explored. https://fritzaschersociety.org/trauma-memory-art/.

Featuring Rachel Stern, Director and CEO, Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, New York; and Prof. Ori Z Soltes, Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

Featuring Melissa Hacker, Carole Borgh, Margaret Kittel Canale, Anita Grosz, Susan Stayna & Shoshanah Wolfson

In the months before World War II, nearly 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig and Poland to safety in England. Unaccompanied children in much smaller numbers were sent to Sweden, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. The Kindertransport Association connects Kindertransport Survivors, their children and grandchildren, preserves and shares Kindertransport Survivor histories, and supports children in need and child refugees. Join us for a gathering hosted by Second Generation Kindertransport Survivors KTA President Melissa Hacker, Vice Presidents Anita Grosz and Shoshannah Wolfson, and Toronto based KTA members Margaret Kittel Canale, Susan Stayna and Carole Borgh. All are welcome, Kinder, the next generations and interested friends, longtime KTA members and folks meeting us for the first time!

Melissa Hacker is the first member of the Second Generation to serve as President of the Kindertransport Association, and is the daughter of a Kindertransport Survivor from Vienna. Melissa is a filmmaker who made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering The Kindertransports, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination, seen in film festivals, cinemas, museums, on television, community centers and universities worldwide. Melissa is also a wandering professor of documentary film most recently at Yangon Film School in Myanmar. Melissa consulted on the 2018 exhibit, Rescuing Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York, and has written for the catalog and provided material for a Kindertransport exhibit opening in December 2021 at the Jewish Museum Vienna. Melissa serves on the Executive Committee and the Governing Board of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants.

Anita Grosz and Shoshannah Wolfson are Vice Presidents of the Kindertransport Association.

Carole Borgh's mother is Renate (Herzog) Cahn, who left Krefeld, Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939 (age 15). Carole's father is Guenther Cahn, who left Düsseldorf, Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939 (age 14).

Margaret Kittel Canale's mother is Vera (Posener) Kittel, who left Germany on a Kindertransport on July 25, 1939.

Susan Stayna's father is Karl Stayna, who left Vienna on a Kindertransport (the first out of Austria) on December 10, 1938 (age 12).

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Presented by the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater

Nineteen-year-old Bill Jucksch “finally knew what he was fighting for” on May 4, 1945, when he and his unit liberated the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen. A forward observer for the 71st Infantry Division of Patton’s 3rd Army, Bill saw firsthand the cruelty that man is capable of, as his unit swept across France and through Austria defeating the Nazis. His account of this time in his life is gripping and powerful.

The What We Carry program of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater shares testimony of five survivors, a liberator, and a rescuer. There are seven one-hour classroom units, each of which is centered around a 15-30-minute film, and features personal narratives of these Holocaust witnesses, lesson plans, and videos of docents presenting suitcases filled with replicas of the subject’s artifacts. Testimony films can be used as educational tools for any audience.

Find all films at www.holocaustcommission.jewishva.org/home-page/what-we-carry.

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Vienna Kindertransport: A Family History

In this presentation, presented live on zoom February 15, 2021, Kindertransport Second Generation (KT2) Dr. David Bader highlights his mother Sophie's journey on a Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria, to Manchester, England, when she was five years old in 1939. Dr. Bader shares his research in learning about the role played by the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany and explains how to access Kindertransport records from Vienna. Dr. Bader's mother, Sophie, also participates.

The KTA began hosting online talks in summer 2020, to provide programs for KTA members who were isolated at home. We have held book talks, Passover Haggadah discussions, and more. This program shares the Kindertransport family history story and research of a KT2.

Dr. David A. Bader is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a member of the KTA and of the Jewish Genealogy Society of New York. He specializes in Eastern European Jewish and DNA genealogy. His mother, a retired college organic chemistry teacher, leads an active life in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she volunteers at the Lehigh Valley Hospital, the Lehigh Valley International Airport, and the State Theatre Easton.

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Witness: Maria Zapaleu

Hear Maria Zapaleu recount what she witnessed living in her village that was home to Jews and non-Jews. Presented by the Survivor Mitzvah Project.

The Survivor Mitzvah Project is providing continuous financial aid to ill, impoverished and forgotten Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe who are suffering and in desperate need of food, medicine, heat and shelter – and encouraging people to donate. SMP’s Holocaust Educational Archive (over 500 hours of never-before-seen video testimonies, and over 20,000 documents, photographs, and life histories) is a comprehensive archive presenting a unique opportunity for Holocaust/Jewish Heritage studies.

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WHY? The Holocaust Explained

Featuring Dr. Peter Hayes, introduced by Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff

An exploration of the origins of one of the most tragic events in human history, from a world-renowned Holocaust historian.

Dr. Peter Hayes holds degrees from Bowdoin, Oxford, and Yale and was from 1980 to 2016 Professor of History and German and from 2000 to 2016 Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University in the U.S. His publications have won several prizes and been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, and Spanish. His works on the Holocaust include not only the one on which his lecture is based, but also How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, which he edited with John K. Roth. From 2014 to 2019, he chaired the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Also an award-winning teacher, he lectures widely on German and Holocaust history in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff (organizer & moderator) is a child Holocaust Survivor, Liberation75 committee member, education specialist for Holocaust Studies at Miami-Dade County Public Schools, an appointee to the Florida Education Commissioner's Holocaust Task Force, and the Director of the Summer Teacher Institute on Holocaust Studies at the University of Miami School of Education. Miriam has studied at Yad Vashem; the International Center for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem.

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Using Photographs to Talk About Choices

Join Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre Education Manager Catherine Boyd in this virtual exhibition highlight exploring how to use photographs to talk about moral choices.

This short video clip uses photographs within our permanent exhibition to make connections between historical case studies and contemporary South Africa.

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There Were Good People Doing Extraordinary Deeds: Leo Ullman's Story

Presented by the Sara And Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center.

Leo Ullman, a Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands, returned to Amsterdam to tell the story of how his immediate family was saved during WWII. The film teaches the history of the Holocaust in the Netherlands using the story of Leo Ullman's family, who were saved by Righteous Gentiles who hid them with forged documents. The film viewer sees the house where Leo Ullman (age three) was hidden. Leo Ullman's parents hiding place is also shown.

To memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in the Netherlands and pay tribute to those in Amsterdam who hid Leo Ullman (age four) and his parents. The rescuers were recognized as Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations. The goal of the film is to educate future generations about those who changed history by hiding Jewish victims during World War II.

Director, Editor, and Story Producer
Toby Rosenthal
Teaching Specialist at Stockton University, Communications Studies (Media Production)

Associate Producer
Irvin O. Moreno-Rodriguez
Program Assistant, Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

Production Assistant
Morgan Everman
Program Assistant, Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

Original Music Composed by
Bob Fowler

Original Music Performed by
Bob Fowler and George Mesterhazy
Copyright 2009
Bar Chers Music BMI

Amsterdam, the Netherlands Videography and Crew
Erik Williams

Funding Provided by
Katharine M. and Leo S. Ullman

Special Thanks to

Dr. Michael Berenbaum,
Holocaust Scholar and Project Consultant for the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California

Dr. Michael Hayse,
Associate Professor of Historical Studies and Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University

Dr. Dienke Hondius,
Ida E King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University - Spring 2020 and Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Free University of Amsterdam

Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Gail Hirsch Rosenthal,
Director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

Leo S. Ullman, Holocaust survivor

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Stand Up (Short Film)

Presented by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum

This video stars players and coaches from 14 leading clubs in the English Premier League, FA Women's Super League and EFL Championship.

Featuring:
Harry Kane
Gary Linekar
Roy Hodgson
Jurgen Klopp
Gary Cahill
Jess Lingard
James Maddison
Michael Dawson
Frank Lampard
Virgil Van Dijk
Nathaniel Welford
Callum Hudson-Odoi
Glenn Murray
Christian Benteke

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Practical Strategies for Addressing Online Hate Speech & Antisemitism

Featuring Melissa Mikel, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies

The internet can function as a forum for progress and social change, but also as a vehicle to spread hate and intolerance. This presentation will look at different trends of hate found on social media and gaming platforms and how they impact youth. Issues such as cyberbullying, racism, antisemitism and the real life consequences of these increasingly dangerous and growing trends are investigated along with strategies for addressing this hate.

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Moral Choices: 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre education volunteer Rene Pozniak, gives a virtual exhibition tour highlighting and exploring moral choices and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

This video clip helps us understand the various roles of individuals or institutions and the consequences of the choices they made.

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Childrens' Art During The Holocaust

Featuring Madene Shachar, Ghetto Fighters' House

During the Holocaust, Jewish children had to cope with the reality of war and the persecution of their families and communities by the Nazi regime. Using her talent as an artist, educator and art therapist, as well as her experience as an art teacher, Friedl Dicker Brandeis taught hundreds of Jewish children in an art workshop in the Terezin Ghetto, giving them a way to deal with their reality. In many ways, Friedl's workshop served as a coping mechanism that preserved the inner world of the children. She gave children a platform to process their experience in the ghetto, while helping them to keep their individuality and validate their personal identity. The children were asked to sign their name and age on their creations, which serve as a testimony to their lives, and a document of their existence. This presentation will focus on the artwork created in this workshop, and how it serves as an example of spiritual resistance.

Madene Shachar is a veteran educator and has been a museum guide at the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum and Yad Layeled Children's Memorial Museum in Israel since 2000. She holds a Master's Degree in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa. Presently, she is the director of the Ghetto Fighters' House international online lecture series "Talking Memory." Her research interests include Holocaust education, Holocaust memorials and the representation of the Holocaust in the museum space. She has participated in conferences and workshops both in Israel and abroad and has written numerous articles and chapters on these subjects.

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Dark Lullabies

Seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, a child of concentration camp survivors, this program explores the impact of the Holocaust on a generation of Jews and Germans born after World War II. Includes interviews in Canada, Israel, and Germany with the children of survivors, with young neo-Nazis, and with the children of former Nazis.

Directed and narrated by Irene Angelico

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He Wanted to Save Them All: Canadian Jewish Soldiers Who Liberated Europe

Featuring Ellin Bessner & Bob Delson

From Canada, there were over a million men in uniform, including 17,000 Jewish soldiers, who helped liberate the Jews of Europe, rescued the survivors of the camps and the ghettos and the hidden children, and also worked after the war to reunite many with their families around the world, including here in Canada. For the tiny wartime Jewish community of Canada, the Second World War was what the prime minister of the day, Mackenzie King, called a “Double Threat”: he said Hitler was not only dangerous to freedom and democracy, but was a threat to the very survival of the Jewish people as a race. And for the 17,000 Canadian Jewish soldiers who went to help fight Hitler, the war posed a great personal danger, should the Nazis capture them.

Ellin Bessner is a journalist, a professor at Centennial College Journalism School in Toronto, and the author of “Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II”. Ellin has spent eight years researching and interviewing over 300 Jewish WWII veterans and their families, to tell the untold stories of how and why Canada’s Jewish community mobilized to defeat Hitler and rescue the survivors of the Holocaust.

Bob Delson is the son of Canadian veteran and liberator of Bergen-Belsen, Bernard Delson. Bob possesses an extensive collection of his father's photographs from WWII, which have only now been revealed publicly. He also has a personally gifted, signed yellow Jewish Star from the striped uniform of one of the 60,000 prisoners that were liberated. The black and white photos from Bergen-Belsen show mass graves, bodies in shrouds before burial, and one shows a sign indicating the location of mass grave #7.

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Hiding During The Holocaust: Networks of Solidarity Uncovered

Annual Ida E King Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9 – 10, 1938): Presented by Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

Dr. Dienke Hondius, Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University (Spring 2020) presented the project: "Mapping Hiding Places in Nazi-Occupied Europe." The goal of the project aims to document hiding places during WWII in Nazi-occupied Europe. Research for the "Mapping Hiding Places in Nazi-Occupied Europe" project is being coordinated by undergraduate and graduate students at Stockton University and Free University - Amsterdam.

Dr. Dienke Hondius,
Stockton University's Ida E King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies – Spring 2020 and Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at Free University - Amsterdam

Susan Lang,
Chair of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University Executive Committee

Gail Rosenthal,
Director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

Morgan Everman,
Program Assistant of the Master of Arts Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program of Stockton University

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Holocaust Survivor: Dr. Agnes Klein

Provided by Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) as part of their Ottawa Holocaust Survivor Testimonials.

Dr. Agnes Klein MD was born in 1937 in Brasov, Romania. As a child during the war, she survived on a farm in Romania and re-located to South America and then Canada after the war.

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Holocaust Survivor: Elly Bollegraaf

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Yom HaShoah 2021: Unto Every Person There Is A Name

Presented by the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

The Yom HaShoah 2021 livestream event was hosted by Holocaust scholar and author, Dr. Michael Berenbaum. Dr. Berenbaum interviewed four Holocaust survivors who shared their life stories during this one hour program. The four Holocaust survivors:

•Maud Dahme, a hidden child on a farm in the Netherlands.
•Betty Grebenschikoff, eyewitness to Kristallnacht and fled with family to Shanghai.
•Laura Oberlender, hidden child on a farm near Tuchin, Ukraine.
•Rosalie Simon, survived with her sisters Auschwitz.

Features:
Dr. Michael Berenbaum,
Stockton Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies (1999-2000) and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute for Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust

Susan Lang,
Chair of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University Executive Committee

Gail Rosenthal,
Director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

Maud Dahme, Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands

Betty Grebenschikoff, Holocaust survivor from Germany

Laura Oberlender, Holocaust survivor from the Ukraine

Rosalie Simon, Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia

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Writing Survival, Writing History: The Holocaust in Hungary

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Why Am I Here: A Child's Journey Through The Holocaust

Julius Maslovat was born as Yidele Henechowicz in 1942. After the Wehrmacht invaded, the Germans established the first ghetto in occupied Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski. This is where Julius Maslovat was born. He lost his parents and many of his relatives in the concentration and extermination camps. As the Red Army advanced, the Germans deported him to Buchenwald in December 1944 when he was just a toddler. After a few weeks in Block 58 of the camp, he was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where he was taken care of by two female prisoners who looked after orphans in the camp. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Julius was then taken on a Red Cross transport to Sweden, where he was adopted by a Jewish-Finnish couple by the surname Maslovat. He attended school and university in Great Britain. In 1966, he emigrated to Canada. He has done decades of research into his past and frequently shares his experiences as a Holocaust eyewitness.

Canada 2019, Director: Chorong Kim.

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Weaving Disparate Narratives: Behind the Scenes of Bergen-Belsen’s Liberation

Presented by Bernice Lerner for the University of Wisconsin’s George L. Mosse Program in Jewish History and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.

This talk draws from Lerner's book "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, A British Doctor, and the Liberation for Bergen-Belsen," which is available from Johns Hopkins University Press (press.jhu.edu) at a 30% discount with the code: HTWN.

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We, The Liberated

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Unpacking Hana’s Suitcase: Journey through the Brady Family Collection

Featuring Lara Hana Brady, niece of Hana Brady

Book: Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine, Published by Second Story Press

Lara Hana Brady is known for her work on Inside Hana's Suitcase, the 2009 documentary based on the life of Lara's aunt, Hana Brady. Hana was a Czechoslovakian Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp, Auschwitz, during the Holocaust. The story of Hana Brady first became public when Fumiko Ishioka, a Japanese educator and director of the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center, visited Auschwitz and requested to borrow children's items that could convey the Holocaust story to other children. Fumiko Ishioka returned to Japan with an old, battered suitcase baring Hana Brady's name, and unraveled its mystery alongside a group of children (known as 'The Small Wings'). In 2000, Hana's suitcase was exhibited publicly for the first time, and it turned out to be a very capable means of reaching out to children at their level. Since then, Hana's suitcase has been extensively used to educate children around the world.

In this program, Lara Brady will share her precious family collection of documents, photographs and stories. Lara will also share the impact of Fumiko Ishioka's discovery of the Brady family legacy for children around the world, and the lessons we can learn about the consequences of inaction and the responsibility of children and adults alike to a new generation.

For over 20 years now, Lara has been involved with her family’s story. Growing up in Toronto, within a family with deep ties to their Czech roots, Lara was curious about one particular family member: her aunt Hana. Lara had grown up hearing stories from her father, George, the sole survivor of his immediate family as a result of the Holocaust. Hana and George’s story was eventually shared in the internationally bestselling book by Karen Levine entitled “Hana’s Suitcase” and in subsequent films, plays and documentaries. Embracing the power of her family’s story, Lara has travelled around the world, to speak primarily to children about her aunt’s fate and the subsequent events. As we lose the generation of survivors, Lara’s family story provides a closer link for children to the stories of the Holocaust and encourages children to become change agents in their own right and communities. In addition to managing the Brady family outreach programs and acting as curator for the Brady family collection, Lara also works as an advocacy communications strategist in Toronto and consults for numerous organizations.

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The Holocaust in the Fiction and Memoirs of Chava Rosenfarb

Czechoslovakia (8)

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A Personal Account: Looking Back at the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz Ceremony

The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center presented with Doug Cervi, Executive Director of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education and Adjunct Professor at Stockton University, about his experiences with Holocaust survivors Rosalie Simon and David Wisnia at the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz ceremony in Poland on January 27, 2020.

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Childrens' Art During The Holocaust

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Holocaust Memorial Day Service, 2021

AJR's Annual HMD Service held in conjunction with Belsize Square Synagogue. The theme for 2021 is ‘Be the light in the darkness’.

We hear from authors Bart van Es and Selma Van De Perre, survivor Steven Frank in conversation with his granddaughter Maggie and Dr Eve Willman, who came to England on the Kindertransport, in conversation with her great-niece Gaby.

The service is conducted by Rabbi Stuart Altshuler, accompanied by Cantor Dr Paul Heller.

Featuring:
Bart van Es, author of The Cut Out Girl.
Steven Frank, Holocaust survivor.
Dr Eve Willman, Kindertransportee.
Selma Van De Perre, author of My Name is Selma
Rabbi Stuart Altshuler
Cantor Dr Paul Heller

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In Conversation With Barbara Winton

Barbara Winton, daughter of the late Sir Nicholas Winton, in conversation with Michael Newman, Chief Executive of the AJR. Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 and died on 1st July 2015 aged 106. He was known for organising the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before war broke out in 1939. Barbara also speaks about modern-day refugees and why we should be helping them.

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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The Survivor Mitzvah Project: Why We Go

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Unpacking Hana’s Suitcase: Journey through the Brady Family Collection

Descendants & Generations After the Holocaust (27)

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Testimony and Trauma: Introducing the Last Chance Collection

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Visiting The Past (1995)

In the small farming village of Turka, Ukraine, a nearly forgotten border town in the sprawling Soviet empire, only three Jewish families remained alive. The other 6000 Jews had been killed by the Nazis.

This 25-minute 1995 documentary by Janine Jaquet Biden follows Philadelphia Inquirer journalist David Lee Preston's 1992 visit to his mother's hometown of Turka-nad-Stryjem in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union. Produced in conjunction with his Mother's Day 1995 Inquirer Magazine cover story "Speaking for the Ghosts: A Story for my Mother."

Generously provided by David Lee Preston.

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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The Future of Survivor Communities

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How to Speak to Your Children (and Grandchildren) About the Holocaust

Featuring Leora Schaefer, Dr. Amy Platt & Carrie Swartz

Understanding how and when to address sensitive issues with your child can be a challenge. This session will provide an opportunity to hear from experts in Holocaust education about age-appropriate ways to talk with young people about the Holocaust. Leora will share methods of assessing when a child is prepared to discuss the Holocaust (and its related themes of discrimination, hate, racism, and genocide), and provide frameworks for inspiring young people to stand up to hatred and bigotry. This program will also provide recommendations for books to support conversations about the Holocaust with children.

Leora Schaefer is the Director of the Canadian Facing History and Ourselves program. Facing History is an educational not-for-profit organization that engages students of diverse backgrounds in examinations of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism. Leora works with public and Catholic school boards across Ontario, and Jewish day schools in the Greater Toronto Area. Leora also oversees and facilitates professional development for Canadian educators on best practices and pedagogy.

Dr. Amy Platt is the Principal of the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School in Toronto, Canada. Amy works with the Board, faculty, families and community to ensure the school lives its’ mission and vision. Prior, Amy served as the Director of General Studies at Bialik Hebrew Day School, where she was committed to teachers' growth and implementation of the K-8 curriculum. Amy has a PhD from the University of Toronto, where she also taught pre-service educators.

Carrie is the Director of Congregational Learning at Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto where she oversees both the community preschool and supplementary learning programs for children from18 months old to 16 years old. Previously, Carrie was a museum educator in Washington DC at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She started out her career in education as a high school teacher in public school. Carrie has a Master's degree in Museum Education from the George Washington University and Bachelor degrees in both Education and History/Drama from Queen's University in Ontario. Carrie loves collecting objects that tell stories about the past and when it is safe to do so, travelling again with her husband and two kids.

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Combatting Online Hate & Antisemitism in Australia

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Founders of the Second Generation Movement

Featuring Helen Epstein, Dr. Eva Fogelman, Menachem Rosensaft, moderated by Kati Marton

On June 19, 1977, Helen Epstein’s NY Times Magazine cover story “Heirs of the Holocaust,” was read by more than 2,000,000 people. The interviewees verbalized what many children of Holocaust survivors were feeling but did not know how to articulate. Eva Fogelman and Bella Savran’s awareness groups for 2G were featured; they would be replicated across the world in the next decade. Menachem Rosensaft along with others spearheaded an international network. We will discuss how these three voices catapulted into a movement.

Helen Epstein is a journalist and the author, editor and/or translator of ten books . They include the Holocaust trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History (Nalezena Minulost) and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (O Cem Se Nemluvi). She translated Heda Kovaly's Under a Cruel Star into English and recently edited her late mother's memoir Franci's War.

Dr. Eva Fogelman is a pioneer in the field of group therapy for multi-generational Holocaust survivors. She is a psychologist in private practice in New York City who specializes in treating generations of the Holocaust and related historical traumas. Eva's subjects of research include post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological impacts of the Holocaust on Survivors (including Child Survivors) and second & third generation descendants of Survivors. Eva's research has also focused on morality, altruism, persecution, and coping with extreme conditions of terror including sexual abuse, and she specializes is assisting couples and families in complicated relationships. Eva is currently working on a book titled "Living with Ghosts: Post-Holocaust Generations Mourn."

Helen Epstein is a journalist and the author, editor and/or translator of ten books . They include the Holocaust trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History (Nalezena Minulost) and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (O Cem Se Nemluvi). She translated Heda Kovaly's Under a Cruel Star into English and recently edited her late mother's memoir Franci's War.

Menachem Z. Rosensaft is associate executive vice president and general counsel of the World Jewish Congress, and teaches about the law of genocide at the law schools of Columbia and Cornell Universities. He is the founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, and is the author of Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen (Kelsay Books, 2021).

Kati Marton is a best-selling author. From 2003-2008, Kati chaired the International Women’s Health Coalition. From 2001-2002, Kati was Chief Advocate for the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. From 2000-2011, she was a member of the board of Human Rights Watch. Kati is currently a director and former chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Displaced Persons & Refugees (16)

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Holocaust Survivor: Tova Clark

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Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue

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Liberated & Rescued/СПАСЕННЫЕ И ОСВОБОЖДЕННЫЕ: Jewish "Children of War" from USSR & Descendants

Featuring Dr. Zelina Iskanderova & Lana Barkan PROGRAM OFFERED IN RUSSIAN & ENGLISH

Not only adults, but the Children of War were direct or indirect victims of the wartime. WWII was a devastating experience for many Jews in the Concentration camps due to the Holocost, and for those displaced families, who were forced to abandon their homes and escape to safety mostly to Central Asia's region, where around 1.5 million civilians have been saved altogether. These heart-breaking stories of survival are reminders of everyday miracles in a peaceful life, which post-war generations are lucky to enjoy. In this program, Zelina and Alex Iskanderov, the former citizens of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, along with other participants and their descendants, recall the experience of growing up during and immediately after WWII. Both Alex's parents served in the Red Army, liberating the country and the world from Nazis, and Zelina's relatives were evacuated to Uzbekistan from Moscow (Russia) and Odessa (Ukraine). Their stories are remarkable historical accounts from the children's perspective - just like adults, they had to suffer and survive. Such tales of survival inspired Uzbek filmmakers from "Favvora films" for an outstanding documentary film "Big Heart of Tashkent" about the important role of Uzbekistan and its capital Tashkent in providing a safe place to evacuated children, women and elderly population, with almost 250,000 Jews being among them. This will be remembered forever!

Вторая мировая война была страшным испытанием и для сражавшихся на фронтах, и для мирных жителей, женщин, стариков и детей. особенно еврейских, которым грозила неминуемая гибель в аду Холокоста. Многие из них были спасены в эвакуации, в основном в Средней Азии, в Узбекистане, где всего было спасено более 1.5 миллионов человек. Алех Искандеров, инженер-физик, один и Детей войны, чьи родители более двух лет воевали с нацистами на фронте, освобождая (liberating) свою страну и весь мир от фашизма, и Зелина Искандерова, ученый-исследователь, чьи родные попали в эвакуацию в Узбекистан из Москвы (Россия) и Одессы (Украина), вместе с другими участниками программы, вспоминают в присутствии своих потомков жизнь ребёнка во время и сразу после окончания Второй мировой войны. Именно такие многочисленные истории вдохновили узбекских кинематографистов Студии "Favvora Films" на создание замечательного документального фильма "Большое сердце Ташкента" о исторически важной роли Узбекистана. и его столицы - Ташкента - в спасении эвакуированных детей, женщин и стариков. В Ташкенте оказалось более 250000 еврейских семей, спасшихся от нацистской расправы, смерти от голода или от военных действий. Именно эта опалённая войной и спасённая часть еврейского народа породила поколение свободных людей, изменивших мир и сделавших его лучше для всех народов, а главное - для своих детей, внуков и правнуков.

Dr. Zelina Iskanderova is a physicist and researcher in the field of interaction of atomic particles. Zelina is an Associate Professor of the Institute of Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, and Head of the Department of Space Materials Integrity Testing Laboratory She is involved with the Jewish Russian Community Centre of Ontario, leads the program "Evening of Jewish Culture", dedicated to the outstanding talents of the Russian and Soviet Jews and their global impact. Zelina cooperates g with well-known Jewish scholars, artists, journalists and writers around the world, including the Yiddish writer Boris Sandler (former editor for many years of Yiddish “Vorwärts" publication in New York), Alexander Gorodnitsky (whose film "In Search of Yiddish," Zelina represented to the Toronto Jewish Film Festival), and well-known journalist Leonid Makhlis.

Lana Barkan is a communications and marketing specialist, TV host and producer, journalist, and promotional writer. Lana is passionate about Russian community initiatives, and collaborates with the Toronto Russian Film Festival, Russian Musical Drama Theatre, and similar educational centres. Lana also provides training in speech writing and public speaking.

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Safe Haven: A Story of Hope

Presented by Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum, Oswego, New York.

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Sol Messinger: The Voyage of the MS St. Louis

In 1939, the voyage of the MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, caught the attention of the world. Listen to Sol Messinger describe his experiences aboard the MS St. Louis on that journey in 1939. This testimony shares the journey of the MS St. Louis as they tried to find a country willing to accept the 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. Presented by Voices into Action.

Featuring Sol Messinger, Survivor of the MS St. Louis journey.

Poland & Nazi-Occupied Poland (18)

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Ośrodek Brama Grodzka–Teatr NN (The Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre Centre)

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Holocaust Memory and Education in Poland: Current Initiatives in Polish/Jewish Relations

Featuring Olga Kaczmarek, Forum for Dialogue

Learn about the local activities undertaken in former shtetls in Poland in the realm of education and remembrance. Olga Kaczmarek, General Director for Forum for Dialogue, will present the local activities undertaken in former shtetls in Poland in the realm of education and remembrance with a focus on participants of the Leaders of Dialogue network. Forum for Dialogue is dedicated to inspiring new connections between contemporary Poland and the Jewish people. The organization's work in Poland focuses on raising awareness of the histories of Jews in Poland, including the way these histories were conveyed to descendants of Polish Jews, and illustrating varied perspectives on shared historical events. Internationally, Forum for Dialogue works with thought leaders, activists, teachers and students, and facilitates the formation of bonds between Jews and the countries of their ancestors. Forum for Dialogue aims to write a new chapter in Polish/Jewish history.

Olga Kaczmarek is a Polish anthropologist and Holocaust educator. She works in the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw and in the third sector. Her primary focus of academic interest is the philosophical system of Emmanuel Levinas, its impact on the philosophy of language, and its interrelationship with anthropology. She is the author of Inaczej niż pisać: Lévinas i antropologia postmodernistyczna (WUW-Communicare, 2016). She is based in the greater Warsaw area, Poland.

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The Holocaust in the Fiction and Memoirs of Chava Rosenfarb

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Holocaust Denial, Distortion, Minimization & Glorification

Featuring Dr. Michael Berenbaum & Mark Weitzman

Dr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. Michael was President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at USHMM, and Project Director for USHMM. He was Director for the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington, Opinion‑Page Editor for the Washington Jewish Week, and Deputy Director for the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Michael was the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University, and has also taught at Wesleyan University and Yale University. Michael was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center in Skokie, conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial, conceptual developer on the Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City, and historian to the National Museum of American Jewish History. He is currently working on the Memorial Museum to Macedonia Jewry in Skopje, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, and others.

Mark Weitzman is the Director of Government Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, architect of IHRA's adoption of the Working Definition of Antisemitism, and lead author of IHRA's Working Definition of Holocaust Denial and Distortion. Mark is an expert on trends in antisemitism, and is a winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award for best anthology for "Antisemitism, the Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal," which he co-edited and contributed to. Mark is a member of the advisory panel of "Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Co-Chair of the Working Group on International Affairs of the Global Forum on Antisemitism, participant in the program on Religion and Foreign Policy of the Council on Foreign Relations, board member and former Vice-President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations, member of the official Jewish-Catholic Dialogue Group of New York, and previous member of the advisory board of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy at Yale University.

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The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto

Presented by Jakub Nowakowski, director of the Galicia Jewish Museum.

In 1945 a Soviet doctor found a school notebook in the liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. It was a diary written by the teenaged Rywka Lipszyc in the Łódź Ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944 — the testament of an orthodox Jewish girl who lost her siblings and parents, but never lost hope despite moments of doubt. More than 60 years after its discovery, the diary traveled to the United States, where it was translated from Polish, supplemented with commentaries and published in book form. Rywka Lipszyc’s diary, a moving memoir of life and adolescence in the Łódź Ghetto, has become a starting point for the Girl in the Diary. Searching for Rywka from the Łódź ghetto exhibition created by the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków, Poland. Since then the exhibition was presented across Poland and beyond, in the USA, South Africa and Ireland. Jakub Nowakowski, director of the Galicia Jewish Museum and co-curator of the exhibition will speak about Rywka Lipszyc, the story of her diary and research that led to creation of this unique exhibition.

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Recorded Live Remote Tour of Auschwitz

Presented by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Revisit the live broadcast from May 5, 2021, at 9:00am (ET) with Tomasz as he walks through Auschwitz. See the Arbeit Macht Frei gate, walk towards the main exhibition halls, listen to explanations on the extermination process, see belongings of murdered Jews, and walk through the building of the gas chamber and crematorium.

Education Programs: Grades 5 and Younger (3)

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Special Times, Special Stories with Zdenka

Presented by the National Holocaust Centre

In these special times of trouble, inspiring stories keep us feeling positive. And sharing them keeps us in touch with each other. Well, we have some very special stories to share with you from our amazing family of Holocaust survivors.

In this video exercise, Zdenka talks about a special book which makes her feel unique. You will be asked to tell her what makes you feel unique.

Featuring Zdenka Husserl - Holocaust Survivor
Nicola Strauther - Senior Educator at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum.

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Special Times, Special Stories with Ruth

A video exercise for children of primary school age, presented by the National Holocaust Centre, UK. This exercise can be adapted to apply to your home country.

In these special times of trouble, inspiring stories keep us feeling positive. And sharing them keeps us in touch with each other. Well, we have a very special story to share with you from our amazing family of Holocaust survivors. And in return, Ruth would love to hear stories from you.

This program is designed to share the experiences of survivors of the Holocaust who were forced to leave their homes as refugees; to enable younger students to continue to learn about the experiences of those who survived the Holocaust as refugees using age-appropriate resources at home; to encourage students to share their reflections and learning with the survivors themselves.

Featuring Ruth Barnett, MBE, Survivor of the Holocaust
Nicola Strauther, Senior Educator, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

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Special Times, Special Stories with Bob

A video exercise for children of primary school age, presented by the National Holocaust Centre, UK

In these special times of trouble, inspiring stories keep us feeling positive. And sharing them keeps us in touch with each other. Well, we have a very special story to share with you from our amazing family of Holocaust survivors.

This program is designed to share the experiences of survivors of the Holocaust who were forced to leave their homes as refugees; to enable younger students to continue to learn about the experiences of those who survived the Holocaust as refugees using age-appropriate resources at home; to encourage students to share their reflections and learning with the survivors themselves.

Education Programs: Grades 6-7 (10)

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Cultivating Resilience: Mindful Explorations With Testimony

Featuring Mary Anna Noveck, USC Shoah Foundation

The stories of survivors, witnesses, and liberators of the Holocaust provides us the opportunity to not only learn about history, but also to reflect on how we can discover our own inner-strength and ability to overcome difficult situations. Join us for this special session featuring USC Shoah Foundations’ Dimensions in Testimony interactive biographies, which allows participants to ask questions that prompt real time responses from the pre-recorded video testimony of Holocaust Survivor, Pinchas Gutter.

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Digital Hate: What If Hitler Had Social Media?

Presented by Daniella Lurion (Educator & Tour Director for Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center) and Sharon Magor (Marketing & Communications Manager for Reena).

An inclusive learning experience, the workshop is designed for all ages and led by renowned educators from Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center of Holocaust Studies, instructors from Reena, and individuals supported by Reena. Reena and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center of Holocaust Studies will facilitate an interactive and powerful virtual workshop on the power of propaganda used by the Nazis for their “first victims”- people with disabilities - in the Aktion T4 Euthanasia program, and subsequently throughout the Holocaust that targeted the Jewish people. This session will focus on its relevance to the modern day propaganda tool of social media, and wrap up with a video clip of the individuals supported by Reena who will share their thoughts on the Maxwell and Ruth Leroy Holocaust Remembrance Garden (located at the Reena Community Residence that commemorates the 200,000 people with physical, mental or developmental disabilities).

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Heroes of the Holocaust: Celebrating Well-known and Not-so-well-known Rescuers

Featuring Kathy Kacer

Bronislaw Huberman, Marcel Marceau, Ludviga Pukas, Princess Alice, Otto Weidt - names you may or may not know. These extraordinary individuals risked their lives to save the lives of hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Using a slide presentation, and in an interactive one-hour presentation and discussion, Kathy will help audience members understand what it took to be a rescuer at that dangerous time - who the rescuers were and where they came from. She will talk about the lives of some of these brave individuals who stood apart from the crowd and demonstrated moral courage at a dangerous time in history. And she will remind audience members that rescuing even one Jewish person or one family meant saving the lives of generations to follow. Based on real events, Kathy Kacer has written a series of books to remind readers about the high price people paid to escape persecution, and the heroes who helped them.

It all began when Kathy's grade five teacher said, "Why don't you write that story down." Forty years and dozens of books later, that's exactly what Kathy is still trying to do - write the story. Her many books focus on the Second World War and the Holocaust, and include The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser, Hiding Edith, To Look a Nazi in the Eye, The Sound of Freedom, The Brushmaker's Daughter, and Broken Strings. A winner of numerous Forest of Reading Awards, the Jewish Book Award (Canada and the U.S.), and the Yad Vashem Award for Children’s Holocaust Literature (Israel), Kathy has written unforgettable stories inspired by real events. She teaches writing at the University of Toronto, (Continuing Studies), and lectures in universities about bringing sensitive material to young people. She speaks to children in schools and libraries about the importance of the Holocaust and keeping its memory alive.

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Lessons and Legacy of the Holocaust

Featuring Daniella Lurion & Melissa Mikel, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center

“The Holocaust is not just a Jewish story, but a human story.” Explore the history of the Holocaust and the attitudes and social forces that enabled one of the darkest periods of human history to occur. Beginning with a short overview of historical antisemitism, the workshop takes students through the rise of Nazism, to Ghettos and Concentration camps and finally liberation. All material has been carefully designed to be age-appropriate.

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Q&A with Holocaust Survivor Rina Quint

Featuring Hailey Dilman-Sharon, Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Join Yad Vashem for a special Question and Answer session with Rina Quint. Rina, originally from Poland, will talk to the audience about her life in Poland and her family before the Holocaust, how her entire life changed when war broke out in Poland in 1939 and what it meant to her as a child. She will talk about her survival, and her return to life as well.

Rina Quint was born as Freida "Freidel" Lichtenstein in December 1935 in the city of Piotrkow Tribunalski, Poland. In 1939, when Rina was three years old, the Nazis invaded and occupied her hometown. In October 1942, her mother and her two older brothers were deported to the extermination camp of Treblinka where they were murdered. Rina, who was not yet seven years old, was deported with her father to a concentration camp, where she pretended to be a boy in order to survive. When Rina's father was murdered, she was left alone in the camp. She was finally sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp. In the various camps she was interned she was adopted by different women, but they all died. At the end of the war, Rina went to Sweden, where she was adopted by a Holocaust survivor who passed away a few months later. In 1946, Rina emigrated to the United States with an adoptive mother, also a Holocaust survivor, who after three months also passed away as a result of her poor physical condition. Rina was then adopted by a Jewish couple who didn't have children. Rina earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in education and worked as a teacher in schools and, as a lecturer at Adelphi University in New York and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1984, Rina and her husband emigrated to Israel with their four children who were already married. Rina has been volunteering for more than 30 years at Yad Vashem where she meets with groups from around the world.

Hailey Sharon-Dilman grew up in Toronto, Canada before making Aliyah in 2010. She studied her bachelors degree at the University of Toronto, and her MA at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in Contemporary Jewry, with a focus on Holocaust Studies. Hailey began working as a guide in the overseas groups and young leadership division at the International School for Holocaust Studies, before starting her current position as the coordinator for educational content. She is responsible for the content, schedule making, staff training, workshop development and educational initiatives for groups coming from abroad to Yad Vashem.

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Standupsters: Can I Count On You?

Presented by Karen Z. Brass

Middle Schoolers are often taught a short introduction to WWII. Each Standupsters program gives is based upon what has already been taught to the students and then we take them into a personalized level of sharing about one person's experience while teaching the facts of the Holocaust and other genocides, tying into the way it relates to how they treat others today.

Standupster's mission is to personalize and connect with the audience through their feelings of understanding what persecution, oppression, racism, scapegoating, making of "the other", discrimination and antisemitism are, and how the Holocaust could happen at all. The more connections and relatability the audience feels, the more likely they will begin to understand the scope of how promoted and allowed hatred can damage a society. These lessons speak on the value of mental toughness, perseverance, citizenship and moral character.

Karen Z. Brass is a International Speaker and Educator on the Holocaust and teaches the history and the personal experiences her father had while surviving the Holocaust. She is the President and Founder of Can I Count On You llc. which supplies her personalized Standupster Presentations to match the audience she is presenting to, from 5th graders on up through adulthood.

To contact Karen Z. Brass, please refer to the below information:

Karen Z. Brass
303-816-4005
www.standupsters.com
Teaching about the Holocaust through personal family history and how it affects me and you in today's world climate. During my Standupster Presentations, I share how compassion, understanding, respecting diversity, and focusing on equity, while utilizing my father's life experiences as a Holocaust Survivor to bring the lessons to the forefront. I teach how to take action, what to say and do to not be a by-stander, which then effectively alters the social climate in your community, school or business in a unified and positive way. Can I Count On You llc.
Author of "I Am a Standupster" 2012 and "Trauma Filters Through" 2018 in paperback available through my website www.standupsters.com and on Kindle through Amazon. And a children’s book, How To Create Peace will be completed in Spring of 2021!
www.CoAGG.org
Mission Statement: To educate, motivate and empower individuals and communities to oppose Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity.

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Unpacking Hana’s Suitcase: Journey through the Brady Family Collection

Education Programs: Grades 8-9 (12)

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Visite Guidée de la Maison Anne Frank (Anne Frank House Guided Tour en français)

Presentation par Julie Couture, Coordinatrice des projets canadiens a la Département des Projets Éducatifs. La Maison Anne Frank est une organisation et un musée dans la maison où Anne Frank s'est cachée pendant l'Holocauste. La Maison Anne Frank enseigne l'histoire de la vie d'Anne dans plusieurs pays, La Maison Anne Frank, située à Amsterdam, a ouvert ses portes le 3 mai 1957 avec Otto Frank, le père d’Anne Frank

(The Anne Frank House is an independent non-profit organization and museum in the house where Anne Frank went into hiding. The Anne Frank House, located in Amsterdam, was established on 3 May 1957 in cooperation with Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father. The Anne Frank House raises awareness about Anne’s life story all over the world).

Generously sponsored by the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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Who Is A Jew? Judaism 101

Featuring Rabbi Corey Margolese, JTeach.ca

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. In order to properly understand the horrors of the Holocaust, one must have an understanding of who the primary target of Nazis was, the Jews.

This session provides a brief introduction to the Jewish people. It is a combination of basic Jewish religion, culture and traditions. While it is but a glimpse of a history stretching back thousands of years, it will provide you with some context in regards to the challenging, but incredibly important, subject matter that you are committed to learning and sharing with others. So be a “mensch” (a stand-up person) and come and learn a “bissel”(a bit).

Rabbi Corey Margolese is the founder and Chair of JTeach.ca, a not-for profit that provides antisemitism awareness and Holocaust education. He is also a secondary school teacher with the York Region District School Board and serves as a Faith Accommodation System Contact, an Equity Rep. and as Co-Chair of the Network of Educators Supporting Jewish Learners (NESJL). In his spare time, Rabbi Corey is an on-site Principal for private Jewish school Torah High, a freelance journalist and the in-house rabbi for TheJ.ca, a national online Jewish newspaper.

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White Supremacy and Hate in Social Media

Shannon Martinez, Classrooms Without Borders

In this workshop, students will improve their skills for effectively identifying and responding to racist, antisemitic, hateful, and violent content on social media and gaming platforms. Research for this program is continuously updated by teen consultants, to ensure relevancy of trending game and chat apps, and recent hateful occurrences.

Shannon Martinez spent 5 years as a neo-Nazi skinhead. Now, she works to deradicalize people who are still in the movement. Shannon will share her experiences and ideas for identifying and responding to racist, antisemitic, hate- and violence-based content on social media and gaming platforms. Shannon Martinez is the program manager and co-founder of the Free Radical Project, an Illinois-based non-profit that helps people disengage from extremism and "build a more equitable and just future.”

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Voices Of Our Holocaust Survivors

Voices of our Holocaust Survivors was produced for the Hamilton Jewish Federation's Virtual Holocaust Education Week | November 2020

This short film features local Holocaust Survivors responding to questions asked by high school students.

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Virtual Tour of the Anne Frank House

Featuring Julie Couture, Anne Frank House

Students will be guided by an Anne Frank House’s staff member throughout the Secret Annex where Anne went into hiding and wrote her diary during Second World War. Using a computerize program, we will begin our virtual tour at the famous bookcase and make our way to Anne’s room where we’ll discuss her now-famous diary, giving a general idea of what life was like for the Frank family. How did Anne cope with living in hiding? How did they survived for more than two years? Throughout our virtual tour, we’ll uncover Anne Frank’s story, and how her story still means for us today. Furthermore, some connections with Canada will be explored.

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Standupsters: Can I Count On You?

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Reflecting on Resilience and Perseverance through Testimony

Featuring Lesly Culp, USC Shoah Foundation

The stories of survivors, witnesses, and liberators of the Holocaust provides us the opportunity to not only learn about history, but also to reflect on how we foster our own resilience and persevere our goals. Join us for this special session featuring USC Shoah Foundations’ Dimensions in Testimony interactive biographies which allows participants to ask questions that prompt real time responses from the pre-recorded video testimony of Holocaust Survivor, Pinchas Gutter.

Lesly Culp is the Head of Educational Programs at USC Shoah Foundation. She leads testimony-based educational programs - content development, professional development and student engagement. She leverages her 25 years of educational experiences to inform the design and development of digital resources and to collaborate with international partners. She earned both her B.A. in English, and her M.A. in Education from the University of Southern California and is a National Board-Certified educator.

Education Programs: Grade 10 (10)

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Antisemitism and Discrimination Today: How to Respond (Sharing Stories)

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Antisemitism: You Can Make a Difference

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Past and Present: The Impact of Holocaust Art and Literature

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Reflecting on Resilience and Perseverance through Testimony

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Virtual Tour of the Anne Frank House

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Voices Of Our Holocaust Survivors

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What Do University Students Know About the Holocaust?

en francais (4)

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Visite Guidée de la Maison Anne Frank (Anne Frank House Guided Tour en français)

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Comprendre l’histoire de l’Holocauste à travers les expériences personnelles, des outils pour enseigner en présentiel ou en distanciel

Avec Anne Marguet, Montreal Holocaust Museum

L’«Histoire de l’Holocauste», notre ressource billingue disponible gratuitement en ligne sur le site du Musée de l’Holocauste Montréal, fournit de nombreux outils interactifs (frises chronologiques, cartes) qui permettent d’introduire le thème de l’Holocauste avec vos élèves, pour mieux inscrire les expériences individuelles des survivant.es dans leur contexte.

Au cours de cette présentation, notre coordonnatrice Éducation vous proposera une activité pédagogique reposant sur ces outils interactifs, que vous pourrez réaliser avec vos élèves en classe ou de manière asynchrone, en vous appuyant sur la leçon et les fiches d’analyse proposées par le Musée.

Anne Marguet possède une maîtrise en histoire, avec une spécialisation en histoire des migrations au 20è siècle. Professeure d’histoire au secondaire et au cégep, en France et au Québec, elle est coordonnatrice au département Éducation du Musée de l’Holocauste Montréal depuis août 2019.

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Les Expositions Educatives de Yad Vashem: "L’art au Coeur de la Shoah” et "Les enfants dans la tourmente de la Shoah"

Yoni Berrous, Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre

L’atelier est destiné aux éducateurs qui enseignent l’Holocauste et nous nous focaliserons sur les thèmes principaux de cet enseignement. Ready2Print est un concept innovant d'expositions muséales de qualité. Ces expositions faciles à imprimer de Yad Vashem sont conçues pour encourager le dialogue sur la Shoah, transmettre ses leçons universelles et prolonger sa pertinence dans la vie quotidienne du XXIe siècle. Les expositions ready2print peuvent être exposées dans les écoles, les synagogues, les églises, les universités, les bibliothèques ou les centres communautaires.

Yoni Berrous est né en France et habite en Israël depuis 1992. Yoni a obtenu en 2012 un MA en Relations Internationales à L’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem. Il travaille à Yad Vashem depuis 2007. Yoni a dirigé pendant plusieurs années le Bureau Européen du Département des Institution Juives et des Séminaires Internationaux au sein de l’Ecole Internationale pour l’Enseignement de la Shoah. Il dirige aujourd'hui le bureau Canadien au sein de ce même département.

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Holocaust Survivor: Denise Hans *en francais*

Interviewed by Leah Hans

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Visite Guidée de la Maison Anne Frank (Anne Frank House Guided Tour en français)

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Comprendre l’histoire de l’Holocauste à travers les expériences personnelles, des outils pour enseigner en présentiel ou en distanciel

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Les Expositions Educatives de Yad Vashem: "L’art au Coeur de la Shoah” et "Les enfants dans la tourmente de la Shoah"

Education Programs: Grades 11-12 (13)

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Visite Guidée de la Maison Anne Frank (Anne Frank House Guided Tour en français)

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Who Is A Jew? Judaism 101

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White Supremacy and Hate in Social Media

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What Do University Students Know About the Holocaust?

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Weaving Disparate Narratives: Behind the Scenes of Bergen-Belsen’s Liberation

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WHY? The Holocaust Explained

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Voices Of Our Holocaust Survivors

France (5)

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Presented by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.

A docent explains the arc of the story of survivor David Katz. After escaping Germany, his family was imprisoned in Vichy France. David was saved by OSE, a Jewish children’s aid organization, and separated from his professional musician parents, as they were sent to their deaths in Auschwitz. David walked 500 miles across France alone, and turned back at the Swiss border. He was hidden by a French priest and worked for the French Resistance.

The What We Carry program of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater shares testimony of five survivors, a liberator, and a rescuer. There are seven one-hour classroom units, each of which is centered around a 15-30-minute film, and features personal narratives of these Holocaust witnesses, lesson plans, and videos of docents presenting suitcases filled with replicas of the subject’s artifacts. Testimony films can be used as educational tools for any audience.

Find all films at www.holocaustcommission.jewishva.org/home-page/what-we-carry.

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Testimony of Alfred Dreyfus

Presented by United Jewish Federation of Tidewater.

The middle of three brothers, Alfred Dreyfus was the son of a successful box manufacturer, who decided to move his family out of Germany to Strasbourg when his boys were harassed at school for being Jewish. The Dreyfus family was separated, then reunited several times. They became refugees again when France fell, and tried to escape again to Switzerland. After several “near-misses” with authorities, they eventually reached the safety of a Swiss refugee camp.

The What We Carry program of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater shares testimony of five survivors, a liberator, and a rescuer. There are seven one-hour classroom units, each of which is centered around a 15-30-minute film, and features personal narratives of these Holocaust witnesses, lesson plans, and videos of docents presenting suitcases filled with replicas of the subject’s artifacts. Testimony films can be used as educational tools for any audience.

Find all films at www.holocaustcommission.jewishva.org/home-page/what-we-carry

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Holocaust Survivor: Raoul Korngold

Provided by Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) as part of their Ottawa Holocaust Survivor Testimonials.

Raoul Korngold was born in 1936 in Strasbourg, France. As a child, Raoul escaped the occupied areas of northern France and survived under a false identity in the south of France.

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Gender, Sexuality & Women's Issues (4)

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Women in the Holocaust: Why Their Stories Matter Today

Featuring Dr. Karen Mock, Dr. Renate Krakauer & Dr. Racelle Weiman

What we can learn from the lives and actions of women of the Holocaust to address the issues of today with the kind of courage that they displayed? This is especially relevant in a time when antisemitism is rising all over the world. A dynamic conversation between Dr. Racelle Weiman - Holocaust Educator, scholar and film maker, and Dr. Renate Krakauer - Survivor, Author and Educator, will be moderated by Dr. Karen Mock - Human Rights Consultant and President of JSpaceCanada. This session will highlight the unique and crucial roles played by women in the Holocaust – survivors, partisans, resisters, righteous rescuers, friends, sisters, wives, mothers – role models all. So many acts of survival were, and still are, dependent on women. We can learn from the courageous actions of women in the Holocaust that can enhance our lives and our struggles today.

Dr. Renate Krakauer, BScPhm, MES, DHSt(Hon), EdD is a child Holocaust survivor, who was incarcerated with her parents in the Stanislawow Ghetto in Poland until her mother smuggled her out. After a brief career in pharmacy, Dr. Krakauer became the Director of the Centre for Women at Humber College and taught Women’s Studies at York University. Her next career was as Director of Human Resources, first in the City of York, then in the Ministry of Health, where she continued to be a change agent. Her last position was as President and CEO of The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences. Her self-assessment tool for learning-centred education, “Criteria for A Learning College”, was widely disseminated in Canada and the USA. Upon retirement, Dr. Krakauer wrote short stories and personal essays for journals and anthologies. “But I Had a Happy Childhood” was a companion piece to her father’s Holocaust memoir. Her novel, “Only by Blood” was published in 2015. She has one unpublished novel and is currently working on a collection of survivor stories. Dr. Krakauer has spoken to groups of students of all ages about her and her family’s Holocaust experience, as well as given talks about her novel to women’s groups, libraries, and at a Jewish Literary Festival.

Dr. Racelle Weiman is an international scholar in the field of Interreligious Dialogue, Post Holocaust Theology, Genocide Prevention and Minority Studies, and is a world -renowned lecturer and film producer. She has served as a lecturer and scholar-in-residence in over 35 countries, specialized in teacher training and professional development projects worldwide, appearing on radio, TV and in print. Currently, in addition to writing and producing films and heading special humanitarian initiatives, she leads educator seminars and global leadership training worldwide. Founding Director of the Dialogue Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Dr. Weiman developed a global professional and academic training centre in interreligious and intercultural dialogue, interfacing with the U.S. State Department on issues of religious freedom. She assumed this position after her award-winning work as the founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati Ohio. In Israel, she served on the faculty of University of Haifa, Israel and on staff of The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum on Holocaust and Resistance (Beit Lohamei HaGhetaot) as well worked on projects for the Ministry of Education and the Foreign Ministry of Israel. Dr. Weiman was awarded the highest civilian Medal of Honor from the Philippines Government, Order of Lakandula, in recognition of her Holocaust refugee rescue research and advocacy. She served as a Fulbright Fellow in several countries, and has been honored by political, civic, social and academic bodies in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Latvia, Indonesia, Jordan, Israel and Germany.

Dr. Karen Mock is a human rights consultant, psychologist and teacher educator. She taught for many years at the university level, is a former Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, and of the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, where she coordinated and lead the Holocaust and Hope Educators Study Tour to Germany, Poland and Israel for 12 years. Karen is currently the President of JSpaceCanada, raising the progressive and pro-peace Jewish voice, and is an active founding member of the Antiracist Multicultural Education Network, the Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims, the Canadian Arab Jewish Leadership Dialogue, and the Enhancing Social Justice Education Group. Well known as a dynamic speaker and workshop coordinator, Dr. Mock is qualified by the Canadian courts and Human Rights tribunals as an expert on antisemitism, racism, discrimination, hatred and hate group activity. She has received many awards and honours for her work including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, “for service to her community, peers and country,” and was inducted into to the Order of Canada in 2018.

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Belonging Differently: Queer Identities Among the 2nd & 3rd Generations

Featuring Jacob Evoy, Wendy Oberlander, Madelaine Zadik & Golan Moskowitz

Belonging Differently will explore how we, as LGBTQ descendants of survivors, narrate our parents' and grandparents’ stories, integrating our inheritance of their experiences as we fashion authentic identities of our own. We will share experiences of recognizing and nurturing queer identities mixed in with family life that was marked by the horrific imprint of the Shoah. We will also look at the ways we navigate the joys and burdens of multiple identities that often set us apart in social, economic and religious contexts - personal sensibilities that can lead to a more inclusive understanding of the ‘other'.

Jacob Evoy (they/them/their) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Ontario completing a collaborative degree in Women's Studies and Feminist Research, and Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Their doctoral research project is an oral history of LGBTQ+ children of Holocaust survivors entitled "Queering the Post-Holocaust Experience: An Oral History of LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors." Their research interests include: Holocaust and genocide studies, memory and memorialization, LGBTQ+ history, and queer theory. They have recently published a short piece in the Association of Jewish Studies' magazine Perspectives entitled "LGBTQ Children of Holocaust Survivors"

Interdisciplinary artist Wendy Oberlander’s work explores the hidden, working with materials and methods that stimulate both the sensory and the cultural imagination. Her work has been exhibited across North America and Europe in museums, galleries, public spaces, and cinemas. Award-winning films Nothing to be written here and Still (Stille) trace Oberlander’s inheritance of her parents’ war-time experiences. A long-time educator, Oberlander has curated numerous projects addressing identity, the archive, and memory. Past projects have been generously supported by the Canada Council, BC Arts Council, National Film Board and the Fulbright Scholars Program, among many others.

Golan Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow at Tulane University, where he teaches courses on Jewish gender and sexuality, American pop culture, Holocaust studies, and comics and graphic novels. He is the author of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford University Press, 2020) and of several publications on intergenerational memory in post-Holocaust family narratives. Golan's work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry.

Madelaine Zadik is a daughter of two Holocaust survivors. She is part of a group of Jewish Lesbian Daughters of Holocaust Survivors that formed in the 1980s. She is currently at work on a memoir about her relationship with her Aunt Helga, whom she never knew except through letters Helga wrote from prison in Nazi Germany. Her essay “Helga is With Me in New Mexico” (an excerpt from her memoir) appeared in DoveTales: An International Journal of the Arts. Her essay “Triumph,” forthcoming in Being Home: An Essay Anthology, addresses issues of the “Holocaust as home.”

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Love & Sex Across Holocaust Generations

How past traumatic experiences affect new intimate relations from therapists, Dr. Eva Fogelman & Esther Perel, experienced in working with Holocaust families.

Sexual and emotional violation of men and women was rampant during the Holocaust. Being stripped, shaved and forced to parade in the nude were just some of many dehumanizing acts in concentration camps. Women were subjected to various forms of rape in the camps, in the woods, and by liberators. Men were also forced to perform sexual acts in order to survive. After the Holocaust, survivors began new intimate relationships and marriages. In many Holocaust survivor families there was silence about sexuality, previous marriages and children. How did past traumatic experiences affect these new love relations? What messages did children and grandchildren of survivors receive and how did this impact their own intimate relations? Join Esther Perel and Dr. Eva Fogelman, who will draw from their experiences in working with Holocaust families to explore these deeply personal and important issues.

Dr. Eva Fogelman, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of group therapy for multi-generational Holocaust survivors. She is a psychologist in private practice in New York City who specializes in treating generations of the Holocaust and related historical traumas. Eva's subjects of research include post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological impacts of the Holocaust on Survivors (including Child Survivors) and second & third generation descendants of Survivors. Eva's research has also focused on morality, altruism, persecution, and coping with extreme conditions of terror including sexual abuse, and she specializes is assisting couples and families in complicated relationships. Eva is currently working on a book titled "Living with Ghosts: Post-Holocaust Generations Mourn."

Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 20 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 25 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins). Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcast Where Should We Begin?

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Long-term Consequences of Pharmacological Procedures Against Women During the Shoah: An Unspoken Narrative

Featuring Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and Dr. Paul Weindling, Research Professor, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.

During the Shoah, women were unknowingly subjected to pharmacological procedures which caused amenorrhea. Women were interviewed to discover the long-term effects on pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths and infertility. By combining historical records and interviews, it has become clear that an attempt at sterilization was an aspect of the final solution. Women were eager for answers. The time is long overdue that their narratives were given a voice and provided them and future generations with some answers.

Interviews were conducted internationally with female concentration camp survivors. They describe the long-term, women’s reproductive health consequences of concealed administration of unknown substances in concentration camps. Upon arrival in the camps, survivors immediately ceased menstruation, terrified that they were, “not women anymore.” Many did not menstruate again until years after the war, later suffered multiple miscarriages and some remained infertile. This history has been hidden in plain sight. This presentation gives voice to women’s experiences.

Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D.
Professor/Professeure titulaire
Department of Family Medicine/Département de médecine familiale
School of Epidemiology and Public Health/École d'épidémiologie et de santé publique
Faculty of Medicine/Faculté de médecine
University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa

(613) 563-0846

Professor Paul Weindling, MA, MSc, PhD,
Research Professor, History of Medicine
Department of History, Philosophy and Culture,
Tonge Building, Headington Campus,
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford OX3 0BP, UK

pjweindling@brookes.ac.uk

This study is supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (“the Claims Conference”).

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Women in the Holocaust: Why Their Stories Matter Today

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Belonging Differently: Queer Identities Among the 2nd & 3rd Generations

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Love & Sex Across Holocaust Generations

Germany (12)

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Yom HaShoah 2021: Unto Every Person There Is A Name

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Inside The Glass Case: Trust No Fox

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Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones): Stories through Generations

Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto, Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) is a remembrance project by German artist Gunter Demnig that has gained continuous international attention ever since founded in 1996. The 10 x 10 cm concrete blocks with brass plating commemorate all victims of Nazi Germany and are today the largest decentralized monument in the world. Every Stolperstein focuses on individual tragedies, on names, families and their destiny; destinies and stories that will not be forgotten when we continue telling them. The virtual exhibition titled Stolpersteine. Stories through Generations is a project by the German Consulate General Toronto and the first of its kind as it aims to bring the stories of several Canadian families alive through the strong narrative of audio interviews and private family images. In partnership with Ryerson University in Toronto, this interactive exhibition aims to create an interactive website utilizing cutting-edge digital storytelling technology that will enable use across platforms including smartphones and iPads. The goal is to preserve the memory for future generations as well as to act as a starting and access point for further education and discussion through audios (interviews) and images. The oral histories provide glimpses that cannot be obtained from documents or written records. They enlarge and supplement the cultural and historical archive with intimate personal memories and documents. These testimonies reclaim a lost world with a critical distance.

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Weaving Disparate Narratives: Behind the Scenes of Bergen-Belsen’s Liberation

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Testimony of Alfred Dreyfus

Human Rights (26)

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Women in the Holocaust: Why Their Stories Matter Today

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Witness: Maria Zapaleu

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White Supremacy and Hate in Social Media

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WHY? The Holocaust Explained

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Using Photographs to Talk About Choices

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Using Memory and Education to Confront Racism

Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre Education Officer, Mdu Ntuli, gives a virtual exhibition highlight on using memory and education to confront racism.

This short video clip makes connections between the racial states established under the Third Reich and the apartheid government in South Africa.

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Unveiling Holocaust Secrets to Prevent Future Genocides

Featuring Father Patrick Desbois

Father Patrick Desbois is the founder and president of Yahad - In Unum (“Together In One”), a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering genocidal practices around the world, providing documented proof of crimes against humanity, and a leading voice of protest on behalf of all past and present victims of mass murder. While documenting the evidence of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, known as the “Holocaust by Bullets,” Father Desbois and Yahad - In Unum have uncovered the location of more than 3,000 killing sites and documented more than 7,250 witness testimonies to the war crimes of the Einsatzgruppen (Nazi Death Squads). Father Desbois documented this research in two books: “Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews,” published in 2009, and “In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets”, released in early 2018. Since 2015, Father Desbois and his team have expanded their scope of anti-genocide vigilance by investigating the Yazidi massacres in Northern Iraq at the hands of ISIS and by helping survivors' transition back into society. In January of 2016, Father Desbois and Yahad - In Unum founded the first and only museum of the Holocaust in Central America. The Museum, located in Guatemala City, educates wide audiences on all matters pertaining to the Holocaust, genocide and anti-Semitism… not just in Guatemala but throughout Central America. In 2013, Father Desbois began teaching at the Program for Jewish Civilization in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University as an adjunct professor. In 2015, he became Professor of the Practice of the Forensic Study of the Holocaust at the Center for Jewish Civilization of the same university. Father Desbois has received numerous honors for his groundbreaking work, including the Humanitarian Award from the US Holocaust Museum and the 2017 Lantos Human Rights Prize.

Hungary (7)

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Writing Survival, Writing History: The Holocaust in Hungary

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Matters of Artefact with Dr Agnes Kaposi and Molly Steemson

Holocaust survivor Dr Agnes Kaposi talks about the special objects she has donated to the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, with contributions from her granddaughter Molly Steemson and Louise Stafford, National Holocaust Centre and Museum.

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Holocaust Survivor: Max Eisen

Interviewed by Audrey Diamante.

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Joe Mandel: Twice Liberated

88 year old Joe Mandel, a Holocaust survivor originally from Hungary, now living in Canada, never shared his Holocaust experiences with anyone. In 2012 Joe Mandel participated in the March of the Living. This moving film chronicles the amazing chance reunion of a Holocaust survivor and the American soldier who liberated him.

Presented by March of the Living.

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Holocaust Survivor: Judy Young Drache

Provided by Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) as part of their Ottawa Holocaust Survivor Testimonials.

Judy Young Drache was born in 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. Judy speaks about how she survived the Holocaust as a hidden baby in Budapest. She was raised by her mother’s cousin after her parents were deported.

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Holocaust Survivor: Kati Morrison

Provided by Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) as part of their Ottawa Holocaust Survivor Testimonials.

Kati Morrison was born in 1940 in Budapest, Hungary. Kati survived the Holocaust by hiding in a safe house with her little sister, her grandmother and her grandmother’s sister.

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Holocaust Survivor: Kayla Kaufman

Kayla Kaufman speaks about her family's rescue by Raoul Wallenberg. This testimony discusses the presence of heroes during the Holocaust who are recognized for their efforts to save Jewish victims of the Nazis at the risk of their own lives. Presented by Voices into Action.

Featuring Kayla Kaufman, Survivor of the Holocaust from Hungary.

Judaism (3)

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Who Is A Jew? Judaism 101

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WHY? The Holocaust Explained

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Judaism 101 for Holocaust Education

Kindertransport (5)

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Meet the Kindertransport Association

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Spark of Inspiration: The Hard-Fought Hope of Dr. Ruth

Featuring Dr. Ruth Westheimer, interviewed by Dr. Stephen Smith

In testimony, films, books and even graphic novels, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, an orphan of the Holocaust, works feverishly to share her story of escape and survival, now more than ever at age 93. Why? What must students of all ages today know about lessons from the past? Time for Dr. Ruth’s answers of a lifetime in this keynote conversation with Stephen Smith, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who helped to pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, Sexually Speaking. Dr. Westheimer's expertise has spanned across television, books, newspapers, games, home video, computer software and her own website. She hosted several series on the Lifetime Channel and other cable television networks, and published 45 books on sex and sexuality. Ruth is also a Holocaust Survivor. After her father was taken by Nazis, Ruth was sent via Kindertransport to Switzerland. Both of her parents were murdered during the Holocaust. In 1950, she moved to France, where she studied and taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956, she immigrated to the US, and earned an MA in Sociology from The New School in 1959, and an Ed.D. from Columbia University in 1970. She briefly worked for Planned Parenthood, which inspired her to continue studying human sexuality. She later became an adjunct associate professor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and taught at Lehman College, Brooklyn College, Adelphi University, Columbia University and West Point. By 1983, Dr. Ruth's show was the top-rated radio show in the area, and in 1984 NBC Radio began syndicating it nationwide as the Dr. Ruth Show. She began hosting several television programs on the Lifetime TV network. During the 1980s "Dr. Ruth" became a household name. Dr. Ruth still lives in the "cluttered three-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights where she raised her two children and became famous" to be near the two synagogues of which she is a member, the YMHA of which she was president for three years, and a "still sizable community of German Jewish World War II refugees." Dr. Ruth speaks English, German, French, and Hebrew.

Dr. Stephen D. Smith is the Finci -Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation, and holds the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education. Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England and cofounded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide. Smith has served as a producer on a number of film and new media projects, including Dimensions in Testimony, and the VR project The Last Goodbye. In recognition of his work, Smith has become a member of the Order of the British Empire and received the Interfaith Gold Medallion. He also holds two honorary doctorates, and lectures widely on issues relating to the history and collective response to the Holocaust, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

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To Remember and Reflect: In Memory of Kristallnacht, 1939

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Guest speaker Timothy Boyce shares the incredible story of a young boy, a Norwegian architect - and how an out-of-print book was brought back into publication. This program commemorates Kristallnacht as an interfaith community.

Marilyn J. Harran, Ph.D., Director, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and Stern Chair in Holocaust Education, Chapman University

Timothy Boyce, author of "From Day to Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps."

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Testimony of Hanns Loewenbach

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Eighteen when Hitler came to power, Hanns Loewenbach lost his opportunity to attend college. His father was taken to Buchenwald for refusing to “Aryianize” his business. Hanns was arrested but escaped police custody, and began living in hiding. After attempting to escape Germany by swimming across the Baltic to Denmark and being returned, he was on the streets of Berlin during Kristallnacht. He fled to Shanghai, securing passage for his parents to come with him.

The What We Carry program of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater shares testimony of five survivors, a liberator, and a rescuer. There are seven one-hour classroom units, each of which is centered around a 15-30-minute film, and features personal narratives of these Holocaust witnesses, lesson plans, and videos of docents presenting suitcases filled with replicas of the subject’s artifacts. Testimony films can be used as educational tools for any audience.

Find all films at www.holocaustcommission.jewishva.org/home-page/what-we-carry.

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Suitcase Video of Kitty Saks' Holocaust Testimony

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A docent explains the arc of the story of survivor Kitty Saks. An only child growing up in Vienna, Kitty remembers the Anschluss and Kristallnacht, and fleeing to Belgium before her grandparents were taken to Chelmno and gassed. When Hitler invaded Belgium, she and her parents went into hiding. Kitty was saved when her gym teacher, Righteous Among the Nations Fernande Henrard, placed her in a convent school, where she pretended to be Catholic.

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The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center presented a conversation with American born author, Dr. Mimi Schwartz and with Dr. Rivka Weinstein, who grew up in a small German village sharing perspectives on being a neighbor in the 1930s and today. Dr. Schwartz spoke about her father, who grew up in Rexingen, a small German village where Christian and Jews lived together before the rise of the Third Reich.

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Dr. Rivka Weinstein,
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On November 9 to November 10, 1938, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. This program presents a film screening and discussion about a treasury of Jewish music destroyed during Kristallnacht that was almost forgotten – but miraculously found!

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Laila Biali, Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and CBC Music national radio host
Dr. Alan Bern, Director of Semer Ensemble
Dr. Rainer Lotz, Music historian and discographer
Sasha Lurje, Singer in Semer Ensemble
H.E. Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the USA
H.E. Sabine Sparwasser, German Ambassador to Canada
Ben Wittman, Percussionist, composer, and producer

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Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington
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Monique MacLeod is the Head of Education at the Montreal Holocaust Museum. She holds an M. Ed. from York University and has developed educational programming for museums and community organizations for the past 10 years.

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This program will tour the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Established in 1953 by an act of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is entrusted with the task of commemorating, documenting, researching and educating about the Holocaust: remembering the six million Jews murdered by the German Nazis and their collaborators, the destroyed Jewish communities, and the ghetto and resistance fighters; and honoring the Righteous Among the Nations who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Yad Vashem encompasses 45 acres on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem and is comprised of various museums, research and education centers, monuments and memorials. Among these are the Museum Complex, the Hall of Remembrance, the Valley of the Communities and the Children’s Memorial. Each year, approximately one million people visit Yad Vashem, and millions more visit its website, which is now available in eight languages.

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