Sunday, October 18
10:30 AM
Runnymede United Church |
432 Runnymede Road, Toronto | 416.767.6729
UNLOCKING THE
DOORS: A WOMAN'S STRUGGLE AGAINST INTOLERANCE
The outbreak of World War II
plunged EVA
OLSSON into
the Holocaust - into concentration camps, slave labour factories, disease and
the death of millions, including most of her own family. But Eva's strong faith
in G-d and in herself enabled her to maintain a positive focus throughout her
life. For 50 years after the war, she remained silent about her experiences,
but in 1996 she began speaking about her survival story. Ms. Olsson's message
now challenges people not to stand by, to stop hatred wherever it occurs, to go
beyond tolerance and to have compassion and respect for others and ourselves.
Ms. Olsson is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Nipissing University,
the Order of Ontario, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is the author of Unlocking the
Doors: A Woman's Struggle Against Intolerance and Remembering
Forever: A Journey of Darkness and Light. Her life story is captured in Don Gray's 2008
documentary, Stronger
than Fire, that
will be shown on November 4th at 6:00 PM at York University Glendon
Campus Conference Centre.
Photographs from the
Holocaust, as well as pictures taken when Ms. Olsson retraced her life in 2007,
visiting her birthplace and three concentration camps, will be shown during
this morning's worship service.
Sunday, October 25
9:15 AM & 11:00 AM
Christ's Church Deer Park |
1570 Yonge Street, Toronto | 416-920-5211 x 26
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
ANITA EKSTEIN, child survivor, will
deliver the morning sermons and share her personal experiences during World War
II. Anita was born in 1934 in Lvov, Poland. Her mother, Edzia Helfgott, was
murdered in the Belzec death camp in October 1942 and her father, Fischel, was
murdered in 1943. Anita was hidden in 1942 by a Polish Christian family, then
again in 1943 by a priest. She was liberated in 1945 and came to Canada in 1948
with a surviving aunt.
9:15 AM & 11:00 AM
St. Peter's Anglican
Church, Erindale |1745 Dundas Street West, Mississauga | 905-828-2095 x 50
I HAVE BEEN LIBERATED, BUT
AM I FREE?
Holocaust survivor LEONARD VIS was born in 1930 in the
Netherlands.
As a teenager
during WWII Leonard was forced into hiding, betrayed and arrested. In a daring
escape from a transport headed for deportation, Leonard again went into hiding.
He was liberated in 1945 and went on to serve in the Dutch and the U.S. armies.
He immigrated to Canada in 1967.
He will deliver the morning sermons.
CHURCH SPONSORED
PROGRAM
Wednesday, October 28
7:00 PM
Scarboro Missions | 2685
Kingston Road, Scarborough | 416.261.7135
BEING JEWISH DURING THE
HOLOCAUST: A STORY OF SURVIVAL
MIRIAM FRANKEL, will tell her personal
story of growing up in a loving Jewish home and how, after her family's
expulsion from Fascist Italy, found themselves trapped in Hungarian-occupied
Czechoslovakia for the next four years. Her father was taken to a forced labour
camp and, when he returned, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in
May 1944. Surviving two additional concentration camps, Miriam was liberated in
Salzwedel, Germany in 1945. The sole survivor of her family, Miriam came to
Canada as a Jewish war orphan in 1948. JOAN SHAPERO, Co-Chair of the Holocaust Education Committee
of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto will discuss why we still need to
learn from the past in order to confront the dangers of the present. She served
as Co-Chair of the annual Holocaust Education Week for four years and currently
is the Chair of the Education Outreach sub-committee.
This lecture is part of an INTERFAITH SERIES on Understanding
Judaism.
29th
Annual Holocaust Education Week (Nov 1- 11, 2009)
Sunday, November 1
10:30 am
Church of the Messiah | 240 Avenue Road, Toronto | 416.922.4371
A MUSICAL PRESENTATION OF
THE JEWISH SPIRIT
This program will highlight
Holocaust songs introduced and sung by survivor JENNY EISENSTEIN,accompanied by Armenian
pianist, ANNA
VANESYAN,
and 12-year-old Canadian/Israeli provincial cello competition winner OMER STRUMPF. The historical and
inter-generational link between the performers will give special impetus to
this concert. Jenny Eisenstein was born and raised in Poland and was
incarcerated at a young age in Auschwitz-Birkenau and RavensbrŸck concentration
camps. A Yiddish and Hebrew folk singer, she is a prominent interpreter of the
poetry and music of the Holocaust and has performed internationally. Anna
Vanesyan graduated from Komitas State
Conservatory, one of the
most prestigious universities of the former Soviet Union. In 2006, she started a Doctoral program
in Piano Performance at Ball State University School of Music in the U.S.
while, at the same time, working there as an Assistant Professor. Omer Strumpf
began cello studies at the age of five and piano studies when he was eight. He
attends the Young Artists Performance Academy (YAPA) of the Glenn Gould School
and is the recipient of many awards.
CHURCH SPONSORED
PROGRAM
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12:00 NOON
Birchcliff Bluffs United
Church | 33 East Road, Toronto | 416.694.4081
HIDDEN HEROES
Holocaust survivor ADA WYNSTON will describe her personal
experiences during the Holocaust and will present the much-acclaimed film Hidden Heroes. Created for Vision TV, the
film tells the story of Dutch Christians who rescued Jewish children during the
Holocaust. Born in 1936 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Ada and 231 other Jewish
children were rescued from a Jewish day care centre by the Dutch underground.
From 1942, at the age of six, she went into hiding for three years with Dutch-
Reformed Christian families. Altogether, 73 of her family members were
murdered. She immigrated to Canada in 1957. Ada has been knighted by the Queen
of the Netherlands for her tireless work in the field of Christian-Jewish
dialogue, chairing the Holocaust Remembrance Committee of the Christian-Jewish
Dialogue of Toronto for over a decade.
4:00 PM
St. John's Norway Anglican
Church Beach Hebrew Institute | 470 Woodbine Avenue, Toronto | 416.691.4560
DENYING THE UNIMAGINABLE: HOLOCAUST
DENIAL AND REVISIONISM
The
Holocaust is probably the only major historical event of modern times that,
despite ample photographic and documentary evidence, and despite innumerable
eyewitness accounts from victims and perpetrators, is claimed by some not to
have happened as reported or not to have happened at all. We need to think
about the extraordinary nature of revisionist and denier claims: who are the
revisionists and the deniers and what motivates them?
MICHAEL BROWN is Emeritus Professor of
History, Humanities and Hebrew at York University and the former Director of
the York University Centre for Jewish Studies. He teaches and writes about the
Holocaust and, with Professor Mark Webber, heads the Mark and Gail Appel
Program, Learning from the Past, Teaching for the Future, and a Holocaust field
study for future teachers from Canada, Poland and Germany.
Monday, November 2
12:00 NOON
The Scarborough Hospital
– General Campus | 3050 Lawrence East, Scarborough | 416.431.8200 x 6041
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
ESTHER BEM survived the Holocaust after
escaping as a young child with her parents from Nazi-held Zagreb, Croatia. Fleeing
to a tiny Italian village, the family was taken in by strangers and survived in
hiding with the help of a priest. At age 13, the only member of her family to
speak Italian, Esther hid all of their identities. Esther and her family came
to Canada in 1966. She is a survivor speaker and educator at the Sarah and
Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
Also recommended for students grades 6+. Esther will speak on November 8 as
well. See page 26 for details.
His Grace Archbishop Thomas Collins will attend this program.
12:00 NOON
Toronto General Hospital (Eaton
Wing, 1st floor, #429) | 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto | 416.340.4832
THE POWER OF MEDICAL
JOURNALS AND LITERATURE AS PROPAGANDA TOOLS
DR. YOEL ABELLS, BSc., MHSc., MD, CCFP,
FCFP, will show how medical writings were used as legitimizing tools of
propaganda and explain how these influenced the actions of Nazi doctors. Comparisons
will be made to recent events involving prominent medical journalsand focus on
the concerns raised by this kind of literature. This talk is an extension of
Dr. AbellsÔ lecture given at last yearÕs Holocaust Education Week, in which he
discussed the active role physicians played in the Nazi eugenics program. Dr.
Abells is a Lecturer at University of Toronto and a regular columnist for the National Post, as well as a community-based
family physician.
Kosher lunch is
provided by Tiara Culinary Creations.MRC
Wednesday November 4
10:00 AM
Kingsway-Lambton United
Church | International Christian Embassy Jerusalem – Canada | 85 The
Kingsway, Toronto |
416.234.8224 x
26
FROM DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT
In 2006, Yad Vashem, in an
historic partnership with the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ),
initiated a new program called "Christian Friends of Yad Vashem" to
help Christians better understand the roots of the Holocaust and to mobilize to
confront modern antisemitism in all its forms. This partnership represents a
major breakthrough in Jewish-Christian relations, as it educates Christians
worldwide about the universal lessons of the Holocaust and their relevance to
our world today.
DR. SUSANNA KOKKONEN, originally from Finland,
received her PhD in Holocaust Studies in 2005 from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. She has since worked as a Cultural AttachŽ at the Embassy of Finland
in Israel and, until recently, as the Political Director of various pro-Israel
lobbies dealing with Middle Eastern and EU-Middle East issues at the EU
institutions in Brussels. In 2008, she was appointed Director of the Christian
Friends of Yad Vashem.
7:00 PM
St. James Cathedral | 65
Church Street (King & Church) Toronto | 416.364.7865
IN SEARCH OF OUR
HUMANITY: CONFRONTING GENOCIDE
THROUGH MEMORY, HISTORY, AND ART
Noted author and teacher PROFESSOR ROBERT MELSON will discuss his work on the
Holocaust and genocide, which includes his memoir False Papers:
Deception and Survival in the Holocaust, and his prize-winning study, Revolution and
Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. His memoir recounts the
story of how, when he was a child, his parents were able to acquire false
identity papers, enabling this Jewish family to survive the war by posing as
Polish aristocrats. In Revolution
and Genocide, he
compares the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust in an attempt to identify
common factors that might explain some of the causes of mass murder.
A book signing will follow
the program.
Professor Melson was the
Cathy Cohen-Lasry Distinguished Professor in the Strassler Family Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
He is also Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, where he taught Political
Science and was a member of the Jewish Studies Program. From 2003-2005, he was
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS).
This program will also
examine how, in both the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, individuals dealt
with trauma through cultural outlets such as poetry and music.
Internationally-known Toronto-born singer, actor and cultural innovator MITCH SMOLKIN recently released the
critically acclaimed album A Nign Iz Geboyrn (A Song Is Born) and was the Artistic
Director of the Ashkenaz Festival from 2001 – 2006. He is presently an Artistic
Associate with Harbourfront Centre. Mr. Smolkin, pairing with actor and
director LARA
ARABIAN,
and supported by a collective of musicians, will perform a concert inspired by
the poets and musicians whose writing emerged from the great depths of these
two tragedies.
This program is
generously co-sponsored by the Rash family, in memory of Harry Rash and Dina
Zbar.
7:30 PM
St. Gabriel's Passionist
Parish (R.C.) |
670 Sheppard
Avenue E., Toronto |
416.221.8866
SISTERS OF SION: THE STORY
OF RESCUE
The first part of this
program will highlight a story of rescue. Several houses of Sisters of Sion in
France, Belgium and Italy helped save Jews during WWII. Five of the sisters
involved in this effort were honoured with Righteous Among the Nations medals from
Israel. SISTER
ANNE DENISE RINCKWALD will discuss the details of this extraordinary rescue.
Born in Strassburg, France,
she entered Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Sion in Paris in 1960. Since
2004, she has lived in the community in Krakow. For several years, she was the
provincial of the European Province of the Congregation, where she has been
deeply engaged in Jewish-Christian dialogue. In 2007, she was nominated as Òa
person of reconciliationÓ by the Jewish-Christian Council in Poland.
The second part of this
program will deal with life in Poland after WWII. Poland has come through
different stages of history – from war through Communism to freedom.
Before the Holocaust, Poland had one of the world's largest Jewish communities;
Jews are now one of the smallest religious groups there. SISTER ANNA BODZI��NSKA will discuss the Polish people's view on and
commitment to the Jews today and what kind of despair and hope accompany their
mutual relations. Sister Anna joined the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of
Sion in 1996. She lived in the communities of Sion in France, Belgium, Israel
and, since 2004, in Krakow. She is a member of the Polish Council of Christians
and Jews and is responsible for the formation of Sisters of Sion in the European
Province.
This program is
co-sponsored by Temple Har Zion.
SISTER ANNE DENISE RINCKWALD
SISTER ANNA BODZINSKA
CHURCH SPONSORED
PROGRAM
12:00 NOON
St. Michael's Hospital | 30
Bond Street, Toronto |
416.864.6060 x
2373
NARRATIVE ETHICS: STORIES
FROM THE HOLOCAUST
Holocaust-based clinical
scenarios will be used to help understand the usefulness of narrative in
ethical decision-making. The meaning of narrative ethics will be explored and principle-based
ethics will be compared and contrasted to it. The use of narrative as a means
of enhancing our understanding of our patients, their experiences and their
values, is an important means of improving our ability to provide meaningful
and suitable care.
DR. MICHAEL GORDON, MD, Msc, is a Professor of
Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Gordon
is also Medical Program Director of Palliative Care and former Vice President
of Medical Services and Head of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine at Baycrest.
He is a member of U of TÕs Joint Centre for Bioethics, author of several books
and a regular commentator on TV and radio. Recommended for health care
professionals.
The public is welcome.
Thursday, November 5
7:30 PM
Taiwanese United Church Newtonbrook
United Church |53 Cummer Avenue, Toronto | 416.733.8183
POST-HOLOCAUST REFLECTIONS
FOR THE FUTURE OF ASIAN CHURCHES
Most Asian Christians might
think that the Holocaust is a European problem and, therefore, there is no need
to engage in theological reflections on the subject. The central thesis of this
lecture by the REV.
DR. ALAN LAI
is to explain why the Holocaust and the theological reflection it requires are
not exclusively European issues, but should be of deep concern for Asians who
share the Christian heritage. For Asian Christians to think that they share no
responsibility for the Holocaust has disastrous implications for the future of
Asian-Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations. The Rev. Dr. Lai is the
Pastor of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in North Vancouver and is the Assistant Dean
of the Greater Vancouver Conference in the BC Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Canada. Dr. Lai came from Hong Kong to Canada 27 years ago. He earned
a
Doctor of Education degree from
Columbia University, New York; a Master of Sacred Theology from Lutheran
Theological Seminary in Saskatoon; a Master of Divinity from Canadian
Theological Seminary in Regina; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from BishopÕs
University in Lennoxville, Quebec. He publishes in the area of multi-cultural
teaching, Asian cultures and theology, and educational implications of Jewish-
Christian relations.
Saturday, November 7
7:00 PM
Toronto East 7th Day
Adventists Church | 170 Westwood Avenue, Toronto | 416.696.5784
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
MARK LANE was born in 1929 in the
eastern part of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, with the collapse of the country, the
area was ceded to Hungary. In the spring of 1944, he and his family were
deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where his mother, two brothers and a sister
were murdered. He remained in Birkenau until January 1945 when he was taken on
a death march to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. He was then deported
to GŸnskirchen Nazi camp where he was liberated by the African-American 671st
Infantry Division, 3rd United States Army, the first to reach
GŸnskirchen on May 5th, 1945. Mark came to Canada in 1951.
7:30 PM
Metropolitan Community
Church of Toronto | 115 Simpson Avenue, Toronto | 416.406.6228 x 107
PUNISHING HOMOSEXUALS IN
NAZI GERMANY
There was no "gay
Holocaust" under the Third Reich, but with more than two million
homosexuals in Germany – by Gestapo chief Heinrich HimmlerÕs own estimate
- this was a problem that would eventually require a radical solution. After
the Jews, homosexual inmates of the concentration camps were treated worse than
any other category of prisoner, and were often singled out by guards to be
murdered. Yet there was no standard or automatic punishment for supposed
homosexuals under the Nazi judicial system. Prosecutors went into meticulous
detail about the alleged offences in court in order for judges to decide on an
appropriate punishment, with sentences frequently appealed to the Supreme
Court. The problem lay in the NazisÕ inability to define exactly what
constituted a ÒrealÓ homosexual, as opposed to someone who had been temporarily
led astray and could be Òcured.Ó
DR. GEOFFREY GILES received his Ph.D. in
History from the University of Cambridge and has been a Professor in the
History Department at the University of Florida since 1978. From 2000-2001,
Professor Giles was the Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial MuseumÕs Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. and
conducted research on homosexuals during the Third Reich. He continued his work
at the University of Munich in 2003-2004. Dr. Giles serves on the State of
Florida Education CommissionerÕs Task Force on Holocaust Education, and has
co-directed a summer institute for teachers on the Holocaust at the University
of Florida.
This program is
generously co-sponsored by Carson Phillips, in memory of all the victims of
National Socialism.
Sunday, November 8
9:00 AM & 11:00 AM
St. Monica's Roman Catholic
Church | 44 Broadway Avenue, Toronto | 416.483.1513
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
MAX EISEN was born in Moldava, in the
former Czechoslovakia. He and his family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in
1944. Max, his father and uncle worked as slave labourers but shortly after
arriving, his father and uncle were killed. Max survived a death march to Mauthausen,
Melk and Ebensee camps. He was liberated by the 761 Black Tank Battalion in May
1945. Later, Max went back to Czechoslovakia and remained in an orphanage for
three years before coming to Canada in 1949. A much-sought-after speaker, Max
is the recipient of the 2004 Humanitarian Award from the Friends of Simon
Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies and the 2007 Tikkun Olam Education
Award from Ve'ahavta.
11:00 AM
Jewish Storytelling Arts @ Miles
Nadal JCC | 750 Spadina Ave., Toronto | 416.924.6211 x 154
SPARKS OF LIGHT AMIDST THE
KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT
The Holocaust is often
described as Òthe Kingdom of the Night.Ó Yet even during these dark years,
there were those who rose up against the evil. They were women, men and
children, Jew and Gentile. They fought back with body and soul, physically and spiritually,
showing heroism, kindness and compassion, against all odds, under the most trying
conditions. Their courageous stories will be explored with noted storyteller ELI RUBENSTEIN, National Director of the
March of the Living and Religious Leader of Congregation Habonim.
Suitable for adults and for
families with children ages 9+.
11:00 AM
St. James Cathedral | 65
Church Street (King & Church), Toronto | 416.364.7865
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Born in 1936 in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, ADA
WYNSTON, a
Dutch Holocaust survivor, will deliver the morning sermon and share her
personal experiences during World War II. Ada and 231 other Jewish children
were rescued from a Jewish day care centre by the Dutch underground. At the age
of six, she went into hiding with Dutch-Reformed Christian families from
1942-1945. Altogether, 73 of her family members were murdered in Sobibor and
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. She immigrated to Canada in 1957 and has been
knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands for her tireless work in
Christian-Jewish relations.
1:30 PM
Bathurst Clark Resource
Library and Canadian Society for Yad Vashem | 900 Clark Avenue W., Thornhill | 905-653-7323 x 4130
DIPLOMATS FOR THE
DAMNED
In the spirit of the Jewish
saying, Òwhoever saves one human being saves an entire worldÓ, Yad Vashem
bestows, on behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people, the title of
Righteous Among the Nations to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews
during the Holocaust. Since 1963, Yad Vashem has recognized 22,727 people,
including Oskar Schindler. Diplomats for the Damned documents the stories of
four heroic Foreign Service diplomats: Switzerland's Carl Lutz, Portugal's
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, AmericaÕs Hiram Bingham and Germany's George
Ferdinand Duckwitz, who secretly issued visas, falsified papers and cut
backroom deals to save Jewish lives. Following the screening, there will be a
discussion led by FRAN
SONSHINE, National
Chair and YARON
ASHKENAZI, Executive
Director of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem and, via audio transmission, IRENA STEINFELDT, Director of the Righteous
Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
2:00 PM
Bloor Cinema | 506 Bloor
Street, Toronto | 416.516.2330/1
IRENA SENDLERÕS
CHILDREN
The feature film Irena SendlerÕs
Children (Dzieci Ireny Sendlerowej) will be screened in its North American debut with
guest speaker Emmy award-winning producer, director and co-author JOHN KENT HARRISON. Premiered in Gdansk on
August 31, 2009, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World
War II, the movie is the full-length theatrical version of CBSÕ Hallmark Hall
of FameÕs The
Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,
originally
aired on April 19, 2009, and nominated for three Emmy Awards. It tells the true story of 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize nominee, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker. Independently and later as a member of
Zegota, she organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out
of the Warsaw Ghetto. Arrested and tortured by the Nazis in 1943, Irena was
rescued by Zegota on the day of her scheduled execution. Sendler lived in
Poland until her death at the age of 98, and was recognized by Yad Vashem as
Righteous Among the Nations. Polish with English subtitles.
Free admission.
Mr. Harrison will discuss
his experiences in creating this important saga, alongside RENATA SKOTNICKA ZAJDMAN, a consultant on the film,
who was one of the children saved by Zegota and a close friend of Irena
Sendler.
Sponsored by The
Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation
With generous
support of The Canadian Polish Congress
And special thanks
to Hallmark Hall of Fame and K&K Selekt Film
7:00 PM
Fellowship Baptist Church |
7478 Kennedy Road, Markham | 905.470.9775
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY: A
CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
MARK LANE was born in 1929 in the
eastern part of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, with the collapse of the country, the area
was ceded to Hungary. In the spring of 1944, he and his family were deported to
Auschwitz-Birkenau, where his mother, two brothers and a sister were murdered.
He remained in Birkenau until January 1945 when he was taken on a death march
to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. He was then deported to
GŸnskirchen Nazi camp where he was liberated by the African-American 671st
Infantry Division, 3rd United States Army, the first to reach
GŸnskirchen on May 5th, 1945. Mark came to Canada in 1951.
7:00 PM
Melrose Baptist Community
Church | 375 Melrose Avenue (at Avenue Rd.), Toronto | 416.785.1980
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY: A KRISTALLNACHT SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
Born in Hesse, Germany, YAEL SPIER COHEN witnessed Kristallnacht as a young girl. She was eventually expelled from
school because she was Jewish. In 1942, her entire family was deported to
Theresienstadt, and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Her parents were
murdered in the gas chambers of Birkenau and Yael was deported for slave labour
until she was liberated in May 1945 from Mauthausen. Her brother died of
starvation and typhus in Dachau-Kaufering. At the age of 16, Yael was the sole
survivor of her family.
Monday, November 9
7:30 PM
L'Arche Daybreak –
Dayspring Chapel | 11339 Yonge St. (at Devonsleigh), Richmond Hill | 905.884.3454
x 227
IN THE SHADOW OF
THE ACROPOLIS
This documentary reveals the
unknown 2000- year-old culture of Greek Jews representing a branch of Judaism
which few have ever heard of - The Romaniotes. Through original testimony by
the Ackos Family, this memoir tells the compelling details of how this culture
was almost decimated during World War II. Produced by Laura Zelle and Maxine
Davis, in association with Tolerance Minnesota, this film uncovers one of the
most obscure chapters in the dark history of the Holocaust. Narrated by Jaime-
Lynn Sigler of TVÕs The
Sopranos. A
discussion following the screening will be moderated by AUDREY DIAMANT, docent at the Sarah and
Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
This program is
generously co-sponsored by the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs,
established to collect, preserve and share the memoirs written by survivors of
the 20th century Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe who later made their way
to Canada. Members of the audience will receive sets of Series 2 of the Azrieli
Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.
Supported by
Richmond Hill United Church and St. MaryÕs Anglican Church.HURCH SP
Tuesday, November 10
8:00 PM
Canada Christian College,
Speakers Action Group | 50 Gervais Drive, Toronto | 416.391.5000
ANTISEMITISM THEN AND NOW:
A HOLOCAUST SURVIVORÕS REACTIONS
NATE LEIPCIGER was born in 1928 in Chorzow,
Poland. Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps of the Nazi regime,
Nate is former Chairman of the Holocaust Centre. As a renowned spokesperson on
the experiences of the Holocaust, Nate has dedicated his life to the education
of a new generation about the horrors he witnessed and the lessons he wishes the
world had learned.
The talk will be moderated
by DR.
CHARLES MCVETY, President of Canada
Christian College.
For more information
contact: projectmanager@speakersaction.com
This program is
co-sponsored by The Speakers Action Group and The Canadian Jewish Civil Rights
Association
Sunday, November 15
10:30 AM
Bedford Park United Church
| 100 Ranleigh Avenue, Toronto | 416.485.8046
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
FELICIA CARMELLY, Holocaust survivor, will
deliver the morning sermon. Dr. Carmelly was born in 1931 in Romania. At age
10, she was deported to a concentration camp in Transnistria. She was liberated
in 1945. Not only did she experience the evil of the Nazis, but she had to
encounter the brutalities of Communism as well. Eventually, she managed to
emigrate from Communist Romania to Israel and later came to Canada. Her talk
will describe the shared fate of about half a million victims, mostly Jewish,
who perished in hundreds of concentration camps under the control of the
Romanian Fascist armies and their Ukrainian collaborators. She is the author of
the three-time award-winning book,
Shattered! 50 Years
of Silence, History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria.