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 Toronto / The Sam & Mira & Mark Shnier Gitta Ganz Family Foundation / Jill & Joel Reitman / Transnistria Survivors Association The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation / Ernie Weiss Memorial Fund Torkin Family Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Liora & Simon Yakubowicz, in honour of Esther Greater Toronto, in memory of Frank & Jennie Krystal and Mirko Bem and Perla and Sam Yakubowicz CINEMA SPONSORS DIALOGUE FOR DESCENDANTS PROGRAM SPONSORS Fox Searchlight Pictures / The Gottdenker Family Sonia & Gerry Rowan / Marilyn and Stephen Sinclair Trust, in memory of the Gottdenker and Zuckerbrot Fund, in loving memory of Ernie Weiss / Michelle family members who were murdered in the Holocaust Glied-Goldstein & Allan Goldstein and family, in and those who survived and have since passed memory of Bill Glied, z”l / Lawrence & Judith away / The Greenbaum Family / Mary Anne & Willie Tanenbaum Family Foundation / Dorothy Tessis Handler, in memory of his parents, Ela & Shifra and family, in memory of Yadzia & Zenek Handler / The Koschitzky Family / Perri-Anne & Wajgensberg and their families who perished in the Charles Magerman / Nathan Rapoport, Rhonda Holocaust / Glenda & Alan Wainer, in memory of Silverstone and family, in memory of the late Jack Leisor (Holocaust survivor) & Ann Wainer, David & and Mary Rapoport, Holocaust survivors, as well as Diane Tessler, Samuel Singer and Cheryl Ryshpan the members of the Rapoport and Blacharowicz 2 HOLOCAUSTCENTRE.COM families who did not survive the Holocaust / Rochelle & Zvi Litwin and family, in honour of Nate Leipciger / Rubinstein, in memory of her parents, Bill & Judith Edna & David Magder / Leanne & David Matlow Rubinstein / The Howard and Carol Tanenbaum and Family / Bonnie & Larry Moncik with Eleanor & Family Charitable Foundation / Sally & Mark Zigler, in George Getzler and their families, in loving memory honour of their parents, Fanny & Bernard Dov Laufer of their parents Abraham & Ida Moncik / Perlis Family and Etty & Salo Zigler Legacy Fund / Esther & Victor Peters / Daniel Pivnick / Lisa Richman & Steven Kelman, in loving memory of SURVIVOR TESTIMONY + EDUCATION her father Joseph Richman, a Hungarian Holocaust OUTREACH SPONSORS survivor / Annette Sacks, in honour of Luba & Leon Anonymous, in memory of Carl & Cesia Mahler by Drewnowsky and Helen & Abraham Drewnowsky / their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren / Vivienne Saltzman, in honour of Susan Lehner and The Axler, Glazer & Lang families, in memory of Feiga Nicole Greenwood for their work with HEW, and in & Mozes Glazer, Holocaust survivors / Tammy & memory of Danny Saltzman / Lorraine & Alan Sandler, Jerry Balitsky, in memory of their parents, Holocaust in memory of one and a half million Jewish children survivors Philip & Esther Balitsky and Icek & Luba murdered by the Nazis / Anne & Jeff Schwartz / Mary Muskat / Barrday / Bissell Family Foundation / Seldon and family, in memory of their family that Cansew Inc. / Chenstochover Aid Society / Janette perished in the Holocaust / Stacey Shein & Mayeer & Michael Diamond / Wendy & Elliott Eisen / Anita Pearl / Helayna Shekter & Paul Orlander, in memory Ekstein, in loving memory of Frank Ekstein / Dori of Chana and Melech Orlander / The Nathan & Lily & Ari Ekstein and family, in loving memory of their Silver Family Foundation / Carole & Jay Sterling, in inspiring parents, David and Mina Rawa, Holocaust memory of Ralph Dankner / Helen Stollar, in memory survivors / Lillian & Rick Ekstein / Ruth Ekstein & of her husband, Jack Stollar / Martha Sud and family, Alan Lechem, in honour of her mother, Anita Ekstein, in memory of David Sud / Celine Szoges, in memory Holocaust survivor / Stella & Peter Ekstein / Faylaura of her grandparents, Johan Spitznagl & Elizabeth Investments Inc. / Sylvia & Edward Fisch, in memory Schwartz of Budapest, Hungary / Charlotte Tessis, in of Ignac & Sarah Fisch, Max & Yetta Starkman and memory of her mother Renee Appel, her grandparents Israel & Rachel Weinberger / Bill Forberg, Joe Forberg, Selma & Oscar Lang and uncle Siegfried Lang, Esther Michaels and Honey Silverberg, in honour of Holocaust survivors, and her father Charles Appel, Syma & David Forberg / DH Gales Family Charitable Holocaust liberator; with Kenneth Tessis, in memory Foundation of Toronto / The Geist family, in memory of his parents Dena & Joseph Tessis / Nanci & of Hannah and Daniel Geist and Leo Krasner / Marika Phillip Turk / Rosie Uster, Phyllis Gould and Sandra Glied, Sherri Glied & Richard Briffault, Tammy Glied Srebrolow, in loving memory of their parents, Helen & Robert Beliak, Michelle Glied-Goldstein & Allan & Mayer Fogel / Wendy & Richard Wengle / Libby & Goldstein, in memory of Bill Glied, z”l / The Lillian and Chuck Winograd / Max & Beatrice Wolfe Foundation Norman Glowinsky Family Foundation / Rina & Irving Gottesman, in memory of Carol & Herman Gottesman / CONSULAR AND CORPORATE SPONSORS Leo Goldhar / Sharon & Norman Gottlieb, in loving memory of Josef and Pauline Krystal / Stephen Greenberg, in honour of Howard and Elsa Chandler and family / Agnes & George Herczeg Charitable Foundation, in memory of George Herczeg / Seymour Hershenfeld & Susan Weltman and family, in honour of Edzia Weltman, a Holocaust survivor; in memory of Leon Weltman, a Holocaust survivor; and in memory of Sam & Freda Hershenfeld / Zelda Korenblum & family, in loving memory of her husband, Henry Korenblum, who survived the Holocaust with his parents, Dvora & Pesach Korenblum; and in memory of Henry’s siblings and family members killed in the Aird & Berlis LLP / Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. / Holocaust / Leboff Family Charitable Foundation / Fogler, Rubinoff LLP / PwC Canada / Stikeman Arlene & Manny Leder / Susan & Jason Lehner / Arla Elliott