Date: November 24, 2016
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Temple Israel, 1301 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa
Registration required. Click here to register.
Light dinner included. Free parking.
For more information, please view the official program.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, this workshop was specifically designed for High School teachers and will focus on: “The Nuremberg of Hate and the Nuremberg of Justice”. What have we learned? What can we do?
Keynote address: Prof. Irwin Cotler, Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and a former Member of Parliament. Cotler is an international human rights lawyer and is the current Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal.
Prof. Cotler will discuss the conditions under which genocide can occur including state sanctioned incitement to hatred and the indifference of bystanders.
Following a dinner break teachers will participate in 3 stimulating rotations: The Nuremberg Hate Laws, the Nuremberg Trials, and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The evening will conclude with the discussion “What Have We Learned? What Can We Do?
Teachers will leave the workshop with hands on ideas and educational material to use with their students. A certificate of completion will be provided.
HEM Program of Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) in cooperation with Temple Israel, Raul Wallenberg Centre for Human Right and the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University.
