Date: October 27-28, 2018
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 PM (Oct. 27), 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Oct. 28)
Location: Soloway Jewish Community Centre, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa
Cost: Free, registration required
October 27th: Opening panel of the conference Canadian Holocaust Literature: Charting the Field on memoirs featuring Holocaust survivor and author Nate Leipciger with Arielle Berger and Stephanie Corazza of the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoir’s Program discussing survivor memoirs and their use in Holocaust education.
October 28th: Continuation of the conference Canadian Holocaust Literature: Charting the Field with panels and discussion on a range of literary works by Canadian Jewish authors, including children’s literature and comics with presenters from across Canada.
Details of the event can be found here.
Organized by Rebecca Margolis and Seymour Mayne from the University of Ottawa and Ruth Panofsky from Ryerson University. In partnership with Library and Archives Canada, the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES).
