Holocaust Education Week 2011
Holocaust Education Week has existed in Halifax since November 2004. It consists of a week-long series of educational events relating to the Holocaust, coinciding with Dignity Day, the community-wide Kristallnacht Memorial (Nov.9). The events of the week are geared towards university students, school-aged children, and members of the community at large. Events in the past have included films, survivor testimony, and talks from authors, photographers, and theologians. To find out more about the week’s events, to volunteer, or to contribute financially, please contact Edna LeVine (send an e-mail).
Schedule of events for 2011 Holocaust Education Week, events in: Halifax, NS; Sydney, Cape Breton and Moncton, New Brunswick:
Holocaust Education Week October 24th to November 9th, 2011
For more information please email: Edna LeVine, Director of Community Engagement, Atlantic Jewish Council:elevine@theajc.ca or please call the AJC at 422-7491 ext. 221.
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Monday October 24th
2:30PM: Dr. Susanna Kokkonen, Director of the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem, presents a short film “I Was Lucky” and a talk on “The Holocaust and Life After: A Collective Experience Through a Survivor Story“. Co-hosted by the Russian Studies Department, Dalhousie University and International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. Location: McCain arts, room 2132, 6135 University Avenue, Dalhousie University, Halifax. Free.
Tuesday, Oct 25th
7PM: Dr. Susanna Kokkonen, Director of the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem, presents “The Road to the Holocaust: Taking the Steps from Hatred to Murder” Co-hosted by ICEJ and the Lutheran Church of Our Savior. Location: The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, 255 Portland Street, Dartmouth. Free.
Wednesday October 26th
7PM, Film: Saviors in the Night, (UNTER BAUERN) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried {named Menne} and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. Co-hosted by the German Department, Dalhousie University. German with English subtitles. Location: Killam Library, MacMechan Auditorium (main floor), 6225 University Avenue, Halifax. Free.
Moncton, NB, Wednesday, October 26th, 7:30PM: Dr. Susanna Kokkonen, Director of the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem, presents “The Road to the Holocaust: Taking the Steps from Hatred to Murder” Location: Tiferes Israel Synagogue, 56 Steadman Street. Co-hosted by ICEJ and Tiferes Israel Synagogue. Reception following presentation. Free.
Tuesday, November 1st
7-9pm, Holocaust Curricula Educators Workshop: Presenter, Anne McLeod. Co-hosted by Nova Scotia Teachers Union and the Azrieli Foundation. Registration required: elevine@theajc.ca or 422-7491×226. NSTU, Halifax. Free.
Cape Breton, NS, Tuesday, November 1st, Gala Banquet at Membertou Trade & Convention Centre, For more information: http://holocausteducationweek.tumblr.com/
Cape Breton, NS, Wednesday, November 2nd
One Clip at a Time Workshop November 2nd, 8:30am – 4:30pm Temple Sons of Israel Synagogue, Whitney Ave. & Centre St., Sydney
In addition to Paper Clips, the conference will also feature Both Sides of the Wire by Cape Breton filmmaker Neal Livingston. The film chronicles the experiences of Austrian and German refugees, the majority of whom were Jewish, that had come to England to escape Nazi oppression, only then to be deported and interned in Canada as “dangerous enemy aliens.” Mr. Livingston will attend the event to present the film. For more information: http://holocausteducationweek.tumblr.com/
Thursday, November 3rd
7-9pm, Diversity Spotlight, Film: The Rescuers. This film traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country’s genocide in 1994. Traveling across 15 countries Nyombayire and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned British historian, interview survivors and descendants of non-Jewish diplomats who took great risks to save Jews from the horrors of the Nazi death camps. Location: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax. Free.
Wednesday, November 9th
5:45PM Dignity Day Ceremony. (Kristallnacht, The Night of the Broken Glass). Location: Cenotaph, Grand Parade Square, (Barrington Street at George Street) Halifax. Free.
Co-sponsors and hosts: Azrieli Foundation, Claims Conference: The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Dalhousie University, International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, Nova Scotia Teachers Union.