CLOSING NIGHT PROGRAM briNgiNg The riMoNiM hoMe: a persoNal resTiTuTioN JourNey Featuring hannah lessing Wednesday, November, :00 pM Temple sinai presented by the sarah and Chaim Neuberger holocaust education Centre, uJa Federation of greater Toronto The Future of Memory Visit the Neuberger to experience the only Canadian installation of New Dimensions in Testimony, featuring Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter. Engage in a virtual conversation and discover the future of interactive Holocaust survivor narratives. Available through January 2017. Visit holocaustcentre.com/Museum/NDT or contact our office at 416-631-5689 or [email protected] for more information.
Cover: Finials image courtesy of Hannah Lessing. Above: Image courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation. Closing Night Programme
March on the Colours Jewish War Veterans of Canada
O Canada Cantor Charles Osborne, Temple Sinai
Greetings Dara Solomon, Interim Director, Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre
Remarks on Kristallnacht Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg, Temple Sinai
Candle Lighting in Honour of the 78th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Milton Berger, Esther Fairbloom, Eddy Fisch, Edith Grosman, Shary Fine, Andrew Mayer Holocaust Survivors Readings: Dori Ekstein, 2016 HEW Co-Chair
Es Brent (It is Burning) by Mordechai Gebirtig, Yiddish poem/song written in response to the pogrom of Przytyk, March 9, 1936 Cantor Charles Osbourne
Introduction of Keynote Speaker Dr. Carson Phillips, Managing Director, Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre
Bringing the Rimonim Home: A Personal Restitution Journey Hannah Lessing
Closing Remarks Lisa Richman, 2016 HEW Co-Chair
Hatikvah Cantor Charles Osbourne
March off the Colours Jewish War Veterans of Canada
Closing night of Holocaust Education Week is generously co-sponsored by Apotex Foundation, Honey & Barry Sherman; by Eleanor & Martin Maxwell, in memory of his sisters, Josephine and Erna Meisels, who died in the Holocaust; and by Scotiabank Bathurst & Sheppard Branch. biographies Hannah Lessing is Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria and the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism, as well as the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria. The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism awards a symbolic payment to persons of Austrian origin who were persecuted by the National Socialist Regime during the Second World War. She is responsible for the administrative and organizational management of the three funds, which carry out their work in remembrance of the victims. She is co-head of the Austrian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and a highly sought after international speaker. Last year, she curated an exhibition of her father’s photography at the Jewish Museum Vienna. Milton Berger was born in Munkács, in the former Czechoslovakia, in 1925. In 1944, Milton was forced into the ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Milton’s entire family perished, with the exception of his brother who fought with the Czech underground. Milton was liberated in Hanover, Germany, where he continued to live until he immigrated to Canada in 1949. Esther Fairbloom was born in the ghetto in Tarnopol, Poland, likely in 1941. When the Nazis began deporting Jews from the ghetto, her sister hid on a farm. Her mother asked the Mother Superior of the Catholic orphanage to hide six-month-old Esther. After the war, Esther learned that her parents had been killed. At the age of five, she was reunited with and adopted by an aunt and uncle. She immigrated to Canada ten years later. Shary Marmor Fine was born in Bistrica, Romania in 1927. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in early 1944, transferred to Plaszow labour camp, and later sent back to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Soon after, she was deported to the Stuttgart area in Germany for slave labour. Shary survived a death march through the Alps and was liberated by the US Army on April 29, 1945. She immigrated to Canada in 1948. Edward Fisch was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933. In 1942, his father was conscripted into the slave labour battalion in Hungary; his mother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the spring of 1944. Together with his younger brother, he survived in Swiss protected houses, and then in the Budapest ghetto until liberation in January 1945. Edward’s mother survived but his father was murdered by the Arrow Cross. Edward immigrated to Canada in 1948. Edith Grosman (née Edita Friedman) was born in Humenné, in eastern Slovakia, in 1924. In 1942, Edith was on one of the first transports from her area to Auschwitz-Birkenau and from there survived camps in Germany including a death march to Ravensbrück. On May 3, 1945, she was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. Edith returned to her home and reunited with her family, except her sister, who had perished. Following the war, Edith moved to Prague and in 1968 to Israel. She immigrated to Canada in 1981 to join her son. Andrew (Endre) Mayer was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1931. In June 1944, Andrew was deported from Debrecen to Oberlaa on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, to a work camp consisting of about 120 Hungarian Jews. He was 13 years old at the time. Andrew was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in April 1944. Orphaned, Andrew was sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress and immigrated to Canada in 1948. We Gratefully Acknowledge Our Donors and Sponsors
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Adler of Canada and Family Claire Baum George Berman Lily & Daniel Kim Rochelle Reichert & Henry Hedy Bohm Perri-Anne & Charles Wolfond Felicia Carmelly Magerman Workshop Sponsors Howard Chandler Ellen & Shawn Marr Judy Cohen Annette Metz-Pivnick Tammy & Jerry Balitsky Irene Csillag & Richard Pivnick The Blankenstein Family Anne Eidlitz Alexander Eisen Danny Pivnick Foundation Max Eisen Sally Eisner Felicia Carmelly Neuberger Holocaust Anita Ekstein Honey Carr Education Centre Esther Fairbloom Sharon Chodirker Chair Shary Marmor Fine Eric Cohen Shael Rosenbaum Edward Fisch Sally Dale George Fox Jennifer Daly Immediate Past Chair Miriam Frankel Howard Driman Marilyn Sinclair John Freund Ellen Gardner Interim Director Gerda Frieberg Sandra Gitlin Dara Solomon Rosalind Goldenberg Marilyn Goldberg Edith Gelbard Nicole Greenwood Managing Director Bill Glied Hartley Hershenhorn Carson Phillips, Ph.D. Mel Goldberg Karen Igra Manager of Operations Mendel Good Eileen Jadd Mary Siklos Elly Gotz Sheri Kagan Pinchas Gutter Stephanie Kirsh Manager, Public Programs Denise Hans Kendra Knoll Rachel Libman Magda Hilf Joy Kohn Education Associate Lou (Leizer) Hoffer Eliane Labendz Michelle Fishman Jerry Kapelus Karen Lasky Program Assistant Howard & Nancy Kleinberg Susan Lehner Kit Cadesky Chava Kwinta Arla Litwin Mark Lane Roz Lofsky Librarian Manny Langer Shely Mann Anna Skorupsky Joe Leinburd Martin Maxwell Administrative Assistant Nathan Leipciger Annette Metz-Pivnick Iris Glesinger Lichtinshtein Faigie Libman Naomi Parness Rose Lipszyc Jodi Porepa Gedenkdiener Judy Lysy Hilary Rabie Lorenz Glettler Martin Maxwell Andy Reti Eva Meisels Joyce Rifkind Leslie Meisels Doris Rochman We regret any errors or Andy Reti Rammy Rochman omissions due to printing Sally Rosen Jillian Rodak deadlines. 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Holocaust Education Week 2–9 November 2016
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