Bearing Witness through the Voices of our Survivors

 

Events & Programs

Photos from our 15th Annual Holocaust and Human Rights Symposium

March 17, 2017, University of Winnipeg

Lt. to rt.: Pinchas Gutter, Belle Jarniewski, Kobra Rahimi

Evita Smordin, Hilda Gotfried



New! In Remembrance Lies Hope Documentary on Youtube
Our January 26, 2014 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration

 

Photos from the March of Memory July 20, 2014

(courtesy of the Jewish Post & News and The Canadian Polish Congress)

Commemorating the beginning of the deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka on July 23, 1942. Dr. Stefan Carter, a Warsaw Ghetto survivor, led about 40 people on a march from the new Human Rights Museum to the Holocaust memorial at the Manitoba Legislature in commemoration of the beginning of the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camp at Treblinka on July 23, 1942.  In the video clip Dr. Carter talks about life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

watch?v=bCVP5MYSSZc

 

Megillat Hashoah 2014

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014

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13th Annual Symposium

 

Indifference and the Fragility of Civilization May 2 2013

Shaarey Zedek Synagogue

Click here for a selection of photos from the event

Click here for Brenda Suderman's article in the Winnipeg Free Press

Click here for the article about the University of Winnipeg's presentation of the Doctorate of Divinity, honoris causa to Father Patrick Desbois

Click here for the article about the University of Winnipeg's presentation of the Doctorateof Sacred Letters, honoris causa to Lt. General Roméo Dallaire.

Click here for photos from the University of Winnipeg's special convocation

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Flickers of Light

International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27, 2013

Shaarey Zedek Synagogue

Click here for a selection of photos from the event (Some photos courtesy Jewish Post  & News)

Click here for Rhonda Prepes's article

Click here for David Matas's speech

 

 

FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

AT 12TH ANNUAL HOLOCAUST SYMPOSIUM

We are thrilled to announce that Father Patrick Desbois will be the keynote speaker at the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre’s 12th Annual Holocaust Symposium, on Wednesday,, May 1, 2013. Father Desbois, a French Catholic priest, is President of Yahad – In Unum, founded in 2004. He has devoted his life to researching the Holocaust, fighting antisemitism, and furthering relations between Catholics and Jews. The grandson of a WWII French prisoner held in the Rawa Ruska camp on the Poland-Ukraine border, he began in 2001 to research the story of the Jewish, Roma and other victims murdered in Eastern Europe during WWII by the Nazi mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen. Father Desbois' extraordinary research and educational efforts to preserve the memory of the 1.5 million victims of the "Holocaust by bullets" has created greater public awareness of this dark period of history. His work through Yahad – In Unum has been recognized with numerous awards and honours internationally. It is indeed an extraordinary opportunity for students to hear this renowned and distinguished speaker.

We are very pleased to announce that the University of Winnipeg, will be honouring Father Desbois during his visit with an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity honoris causa at a Special Convocation to be held on Thursday, May 2, 2013 after the 12th Annual Holocaust Symposium at UWinnipeg.

Online registration information to follow this summer. Spots will be limited!

For further information on Father Desbois and Yahad-In Unum please see http://www.yahadinunum.org/

 

Eleventh Annual Holocaust and Human Rights Symposium

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

University of Winnipeg Duckworth Centre

Click here  for press coverage and photos reprinted with permission courtesy of the

Jewish Post and News.

NEW!  NAMES INSTEAD OF NUMBERS The Dachau Remembrance Book Project

For the Prisoners of Dachau Concentration Camp

March 18-April 15 at Westminster Church

A  project co-sponsored by Westminster Church, The Ridd Institute for Religion and GlobalPolicy

of the Global College of the University of Winnipeg and the Holocaust Education Centre

Exhibit open 10-7 on weeknights and 10-3 on weekends.

Click here for full size poster with information

Click here for press coverage from the Winnipeg Free Press

Click here for CBC Manitoba coverage

Click here for Focus Manitoba coverage, featuring Walter Saltzberg ( Choose March 31 5 :22 into the program)

Click here for  CTV coverage (choose theCTV News at Six Sunday March 18 link)

 

New Shoah Week 2012

Community-Wide Kristallnacht Commemoration

The Kinderstransport with author Vera Fast

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Berney Theatre • Asper Jewish Community Campus • 123 Doncaster Street

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Click here for the poster.

 

Righteous Among the Nations
Thursday, May 5th • 7:30 pm
Berney Theatre • Asper Jewish Community Campus • 123 Doncaster Street
Click here for event details. | Click here for the article.

Click here for press coverage and photos reprinted with permission courtesy of the Jewish Post and News.

Click here for a selection of speeches and testimonials from the evening.