Date: Thursday, November 9, 2017
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Kehillat Beth Israel Synagogue, 1400 Coldrey Avenue
Keynote address: ‘From Destruction to Rebirth: The Return of Life in the Jewish DP Camps’
Dr. Avinoam Patt, Philip D Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History and Associate Director at the Maurice Greenberg Centre for Judaic Studies, at the University of Hartford, Connecticut where he is also Director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization.
Kristallnacht. Known as the Night of Broken Glass, a wave of violent attacks on Jewish stores, homes and synagogues (hence the shattered glass) took place across Nazi Germany and Austria on November 9 and 10, 1938, setting off an explosion of human destruction that was to become the Holocaust.
This year’s Kristallnacht memorial lecture will focus on hope and revival, under the theme of Immigration and Refugees: Then and Now. Dr. Avinoam Patt will discuss the revival of survivors’ lives after the Holocaust’s devastation, and reflect on the power of refugees, past and present, to recreate themselves given the right conditions—a topic that has not been explored in such depth before and is very relevant today. Descendants of survivors too will discover an important link to their parents’ survival experience in this presentation.
Emcee: Laurence Wall of CBC Radio.
Presented by the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship in cooperation with the Kehillat Beth Israel Synagogue, the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University, Embassy of the United States of America, Saint Paul University, and the University of Ottawa.
