Kleinmann Family Foundation

Tenth Annual Cegep Holocaust Symposium
Vanier College, March 24-28, 2003

The Holocaust Symposium planning committee prepared the following schedule of speakers, films and events for the week of March 24-28. This year's theme explores aspects of resistance – mostly the spiritual and psychological resources that people draw on to help them overcome trauma and persecution.

Please note: Any teacher who wants to bring a class to any of these events should contact Neil Caplan at 7152 to ascertain whether sufficient seating exists or can be arranged.

Thank you.

View Peter Kleinmann's page from The Canadian Jewish Virtual Museum and Archives website.
It is both a memoire and a resource for the Kleinmann Family Foundation's Holocaust Symposium.


The Symposium organizers are grateful for the generous support of:
The Vanier College Teachers' Association, Vanier College Faculty of Social Science, Commerce, Arts and Letters,
Faculty of Science and General Studies, the Vanier College Foundation and the Peter D. Kleinmann Memorial Scholarship Fund.


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

MONDAY, MARCH 24

10:00 - D546
Mark Cohen discusses
Art Spiegelman's book series:

MAUS

Mark Cohen is a faculty member of the
English Department, Vanier College

 

10:00 - N531
Gabrielle Tyrnauer & Alina Bandrowska:
"Shared Sorrows: Jews & Roma"[Gypsies]
- find out more on the presenters
- find out more about the book "Shared Sorrows"

- Gabrielle Tyrnauer, anthropologist and author, is involved
  with the Refugee Research Project, McGill University
- Alina Bundrowska is a celebrated Gypsy/Russian performer
  and writer

11:30 - C318
"About Auschwitz": a slide presentation
by Judith Lermer Crawley.

NEW! SEE THIS EXHIBITION ONLINE

Find out more about Judith

Click on the photo
for a larger version

Judith Lermer Crawley is a faculty member of the
Communications Department, Vanier College

 


an exhibit of photographs and information on view daily
until 10pm from March 21 - April 4 in the Carrefour F-wing.

12:00 - N516
Martha Bernstein, "Resistance In France"
Martha Bernstein is a faculty member of the Humanities Department, Vanier College
read a profile of a Jewish Partisan in France

 

1:00 - B223
Frank Chalk, "Why Are the Rescuers Always Too Late?"

more on Frank Chalk

Frank Chalk is a faculty member of the History Department, Concordia University

download his PowerPoint presentation
Warning: 2.5 MB file.

more on one
of his books:


1:00 - B221 (+ Carrefour)
LAUNCH Judith Lermer Crawley Photo exhibit "About Auschwitz".
NEW! SEE THIS EXHIBITION ONLINE
Find out more about Judith
To see even more of Judith's work, go to this page and select her name in the Artist category.
Judith Lermer Crawley is a faculty member of the Communications Department, Vanier College

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

8:00 - N516
Gabrielle Tyrnauer & Alina Bandrowska:
"Shared Sorrows: Jews & Roma" [Gypsies]
- find out more on the presenters
- find out more about the book "Shared Sorrows"

- Gabrielle Tyrnauer, anthropologist and author, is involved 
  with the Refugee Research Project, McGill University
- Alina Bundrowska is a celebrated Gypsy/Russian performer
  and writer

 

10:00 - N531
Martha Bernstein, "Resistance In France"
Martha Bernstein is a faculty member of the Humanities Department, Vanier College
read a profile of a Jewish Partisan in France

 

11:30 - N186
"European & North American Youth: Differing Views of WW2 and the Holocaust",
Fabian Schroeder et al (Gedenkdienst).
find out more

 

12:00 - B223
Holocaust survivor Avrum Feigenbaum:
"Spirited Resistance in the Lodz Ghetto"

more on Avrum

 

1:00 - N186 (boardroom)

1) Jack Hirschberg, "When Good People Act on
  Faith and Moral Principles: My Father's Story"

Jack Hirschberg is a faculty member of the Psychology Department,
Vanier College

2) 10th Annual Holocaust Symposium Kleinmann tribute




WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

8:00 - A308
Mark Cohen discusses
Art Spiegelman's book series:

MAUS

Mark Cohen is a faculty member of the
English Department, Vanier College

 

10:00 - B223
Video: "Undying Love"
with film-maker Helene Klodawsky

- find out more about the film
- other films of Helene Klodawsky

 

10:00 - A342
Marcel Braitstein, "Art against Despair" Talk + workshop.
find out more
Marcel Braitstein is an artist and Holocaust survivor

 

12:00 Carrefour
display and information tables

NEW ADDITION!

12:00 B223
Hinda Avery "Holocaust Memorials in Germany"
(Slide Presentation)
More on Hinda Avery

 

1:30- A001-H
Marcel Braitstein, "Art against Despair".
find out more
Marcel Braitstein is an artist and Holocaust survivor

 

1:30 - N560

Martha Bernstein, "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943: Homage to the Resisters after 60 Years"

Martha Bernstein is a faculty member of the
Humanities Department, Vanier College
Photo: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz

THURSDAY, MARCH 27

10:00 - B223
Matthieu Sossoyan, "The Swastika: Origins and Appropriations of a Symbol"
Matthieu Sossoyan is a faculty member of the Anthropology Department, Vanier College

FRIDAY, MARCH 28

8:00 - N516
Video: "Undying Love"
by film-maker Helene Klodawsky

- find out more about the film
- other films of Helene Klodawsky

 

10:00 - A001-F
Holocaust survivors Gitel Donath
and Tibor Bolgar present:

"The Will to Survive"

On the right is a photo of
Gitel Donath taken in 1946

taken from
her book:

(click on the book
for more details)

 

12:00 - A001-F
Holocaust survivor Avrum Feigenbaum:
"Spirited Resistance in the Lodz Ghetto"

more on Avrum

NEW ADDITION!

12:00 N322
Hinda Avery "Holocaust Memorials in Germany"
(Slide Presentation)
More on Hinda Avery

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