Jewish Life and Death in the Soviet Union during World War II An International Conference at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto March 24–26, 2012

March 24 7:00PM Film Screening, Canadian Premiere Innis Town Hall, Mikhail Kalik’s Goodbye, Boys! (Mosfilm,1964) 2 Sussex Avenue In Russian, with English subtitles Introduction and discussion by Olga Gershenson

All day Book Exhibit March 25 Debates Room, Hart House 10:30AM–12:00PM Annual Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Lecture in Holocaust Studies 7 Hart House Circle Ilya Altman, “The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Unknown Pages” Co-chairperson of the Russian Research and Education Holocaust Center, Professor at the Russian State University for Humanities, and Yad Vashem Fellow

1:00PM–3:00PM Pogroms in 1941: New Research Jeffrey Kopstein, Wendy Lower, John-Paul Himka, Piotr Wróbel, Andrea Löw

3:30PM–5:00PM Russian Jewish Culture in 1941–1944 Anna Shternshis, Maxim D. Shrayer, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kalman Weiser

5:10PM–6:30PM Soviet Writers Witnessing the Shoah Gennady Estraikh, Harriet Murav, Sara R. Horowitz, Leo Livak

March 26 10:30AM–12:00PM New Sources on Soviet Jewish War-Time Experience Debates Room, Gennady Kostyrchenko, Julie Chervinsky, Robert Johnson, Lynne Viola

Hart House 7 Hart House Circle 1:00PM–3:30PM Destruction of Jews in Ukraine and Byelorussia in 1941–1943 Anika Walke, Karel C. Berkhoff, Alexander V. Prusin, Vadim Altskan, Alison K. Smith, Michael Marrus

4:00PM–6:00PM Jewish Participation in the Soviet Army Zvi Gitelman, Oleg Budnitskii, Sveta Roberman, Susan Solomon, Derek Penslar

March 25–26 All day Photo Exhibit from Blavatnik Archive Foundation, New York: Debates Room, Lives of the Great Patriotic War: The Untold Stories of Soviet Jewish Hart House Soldiers in the Red Army during World War II 7 Hart House Circle Continues March 27–April 4 at the Congregation Darchei Noam, Toronto

Free Admission | Limited General Seating | For more information, please call 416.978.1624 or go to: http://cjs.utoronto.ca/jewishlifeanddeath

Co-sponsored by: Nathan and Lily Silver Education Special Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto; Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies; Al and Malka Green Yiddish Studies Program at the University of Toronto and the Jewish Foundation; Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies; and Department of History. Photographs: courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Blavatnik Archive Foundation.