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HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WEEK PRESENTED BY An intergenerational experience at the Neuberger’s Yom Hashoah Yom at the Neuberger’s experience An intergenerational for the Neuberger. Dahlia Katz Photography Photo: 2019. commemoration, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto is the Neuberger’s sustaining sponsor. UJA is proud to support the Neuberger’s world- class programming during Holocaust Education Week and its year-round educational and remembrance programs. facebook.com/HoloCentre @Holocaust_Ed @Holocaust_Ed Annual Student Symposium. Photo: Seed9 for Photo: Annual Student Symposium. the Neuberger. Cover photos: Pola Garfinkle (Paula Dash), Allison Nazarian’s grandmother, sewing in the Lodz Ghetto, circa 1941-2. Courtesy of Allison Nazarian via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. / Rally participant, 2018. Photo: Lorie Shaull. / Caring Corrupted archival images courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Museum, Houston, and US Library of Congress via the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. We are delighted to welcome you to the 39th year of Holocaust Education Week. As you flip through this year’s guide, you will see that our programs curated around the theme, The Holocaust and Now, appear to have been “torn from the headlines.” With so much social, cultural and political turmoil occurring globally, we find ourselves discussing the relationship between the Holocaust and what is happening around us today. It is both timely and necessary for HEW to address our current zeitgeist–the rise of global antisemitism, denial, hate crimes, both online and in our own neighbourhoods, a reckoning with difficult aspects of our Canadian past; and conversely, an examination of how the legacy of the Holocaust has inspired positivity, action and change. Through panels, conversations, films, musical performances, theatre and exhibitions–HEW 2019 offers different ways for existing and new audiences to engage with the narratives of the Holocaust. HEW 2019 continues to offer first-person testimony in the classroom and in specially designed programs for students across the GTA. Additionally, our professional development workshop for teachers and high school symposium ensure the next generation is meaningfully learning about the Holocaust through best practices, newly designed Neuberger resources, and engagement with survivor testimony and artefact study. This year’s guide is comprehensive, including both the Neuberger curated programs and a thoughtful array of programs organized by dozens of community partners. We hope you will share your enthusiasm for HEW with friends, family, and colleagues; and help the Neuberger expand its reach to the next generation. Thank you to all our survivors, supporters, staff, and volunteers for making HEW possible. DARA SOLOMON KEN BERNKNOPF SUSAN LEHNER Executive Director HEW Co-Chair HEW Co-Chair PRESENTING SPONSOR OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR CLOSING NIGHT SPONSORS The Glicksman, Glick, Altschuler, Glassberg and Herschorn families, honouring the memories of Holocaust survivors Morris & Rose Glick and Max & Gutta Glicksman Scotiabank, with Eleanor & Martin Maxwell, in memory of his sisters, Josephine and Erna Meisels who died in the Holocaust STUDENT SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS KEYNOTE SPEAKER SPONSORS May & Fred z”l Karp and Family Robin & Eran Hayeems NEUBERGER YEAR-ROUND PROGRAM SPONSORS YOUNG PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM SPONSORS The Elizabeth and Tony Comper Foundation, Cohen Family Charitable Trust / Dorothy & Pinchas in memory of Elizabeth Comper Gutter, in memory of his twin sister, Sabina CroweSoberman LLP Ernest & Barbara Goldberger Endowment Fund ART & CULTURE SPONSORS at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto David and Rose Brown Endowment Fund at the Ilana & Anton Rabie Jewish Foundation of Greater 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