80 years since the beginning of WWII.
“Learning from the Past for the Future”
Date: Sunday, November 17, 2019
Time: 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Location: Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation (KBI), 1400 Coldrey Avenue, Ottawa
Cost: Free but RSVP required by November 10th, 2019 via https://carleton.ca/ches/2gs
Parking: Free
Lunch will be included.
Open to descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Moderator: Artur Wilczynski, Director General of the Communications Security Establishment, and former Head of Canada’s Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) when he was Canada’s Ambassador to Norway.
Panelists
Dr. Natalia Aleksiun
Dr. Natalia Aleksiun is the Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School. She holds a doctoral degree from Warsaw University and a second doctoral degree from New York University. Dr. Aleksiun specializes in the social, political, and cultural history of modern East European Jewry. She has written extensively on the history of the Jewish intelligentsia in East Central Europe, Polish-Jewish relations, modern Jewish historiography, the history of medicine, and of the Holocaust.
Her topic at the symposium is “Jewish Families in the Holocaust: Prewar Life Shaping Wartime Experiences” and for the breakout session: “Women coming of age during the Holocaust.”
Dr. Eva Fogelman
Dr. Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, author and filmmaker. She co-founded the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and is co-director of Child Development Research. She was also involved in the creation of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Dr. Fogelman is known for her pioneering work in healing second generation as well as Holocaust child and adult survivors and their families. She is an advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and one of the founders of the Hidden Child Foundation. She has published widely in professional as well as general publications.
Her topic at the symposium is “Developing resilience to historical trauma” and for the breakout session: “Embracing or avoiding family conversation”.
Dr. Zelda Abramson
Dr. Zelda Abramson is recently retired as a professor of Sociology at Acadia University. Her areas of teaching and research include: methodology, health, and family. As a public sociologist, she strives to combine academic research with social activism. Dr. Abramson grew up in Montreal as a child of Holocaust survivors.
Her topic at the symposium is based on her latest book “The Montreal Shtetl; Making Home after the Holocaust” and for the breakout session: “Refugees Rebuilding Lives.”
Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks is Vice President and founder of 3GNY. Daniel has a B.S. in Communications from Boston University. He is a certified Holocaust educator, and volunteers as a gallery educator at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Daniel is also active in Israel education and advocacy. He is an HR professional at a law firm in Manhattan. Daniel is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors. 3GNY is an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to educate diverse communities about the perils of intolerance and to provide a supportive forum for the descendants of survivors.
His topic at the symposium is “The Urgency of Holocaust Education in the 21st Century.”
Presented by: the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES)in cooperation with the Azrieli Foundation, and the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University.
