H-German ANN: Symposium. "Memory and Commemoration: The Azrieli Holocaust Collection at Thirty," (March 2015)

Discussion published by Geoffrey Little on Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Symposium. "Memory and Commemoration: The Azrieli Holocaust Collection at Thirty," , QC, March 10, 2015.

The Libraries invite you to attend “Memory and Commemoration: The Azrieli Holocaust Collection at Thirty,” a one day symposium in Montreal, , on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, marking the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of what is now one of the largest collections in North America of research materials on the Holocaust. The Collection was established in 1984 by Montreal businessman and philanthropist David Azrieli, CM, CQ (1922-2014), whose parents, brother, and sister died in the Holocaust. More information on the Collection is available here: http://bit.ly/1qKhrPm.

The symposium begins at 11:00 a.m. in the D.B. Clarke Theatre (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West) with a keynote by Christopher Browning, the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and a distinguished scholar of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. After a response and question-and-answer period, we will break for lunch (on our own) and return at 2:00 p.m. for a panel of emerging and established Holocaust scholars from Concordia, Texas A&M, Michigan, and Graz, followed by a second keynote at 4:40 p.m. by Debórah Dwork, the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University. The event concludes with a reception hosted by the Azrieli Foundation and the Consulate General of the German Federal Republic, Montreal.

The event is free and open to the public and the full program is available here: www.concordia.ca/azrieli-collection-at-30.html . We ask attendees to register in advance via the event web site.

Many sponsors have made this event possible including: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ; the Azrieli Foundation; Austrian Embassy, ; Consulate General of the German Federal Republic, Montreal; Concordia University Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of History, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Religion, Azrieli Institute of Studies, Concordia Institute for Jewish Studies, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; and the McGill University Department of Jewish Studies.

For more information, contact:

Geoffrey Little Curator of the Azrieli Holocaust Collection geoffrey.little(at)concordia.ca

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