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University of Toronto to Host Holocaust Conference as Part of International Meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Co-sponsored by the Government of Canada and the University of Toronto’s Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies, some two dozen specialists in Holocaust research from around the world will meet on October 6 and 7 in Toronto to explore new approaches to the wartime massacre of European Jews. In conjunction with a meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, held as part of the March 2013-March 2014 Canadian Chair Year under the leadership of Dr. Mario Silva, the UofT conference will bring together young scholars from eleven different countries, including Canada. Committed to Holocaust remembrance and the fight against antisemitism, the IHRA is an intergovernmental body made up of government officials and experts from 31 countries. It supports Holocaust education, remembrance and research in member countries and around the world. Accompanying its meeting this year, the scholars’ conference will showcase new research and new scholars.

“We have worked hard to bring together some of the most interesting and original new scholars in Holocaust studies,” said Professor Doris Bergen, the Wolfe Professor at UofT and organizer of the meeting. “Our meeting will demonstrate the vitality of Holocaust research and introduce new ways of thinking about this crucial event.” Michael Marrus, Bergen’s predecessor as Wolfe Professor, stressed the importance of Holocaust scholarship as an international undertaking. “We see the Holocaust as an event of global significance, and as such it is important that we bring together serious scholarship from as many different perspectives as possible,” he said.

Beginning with an event open to the public on Sunday evening, October 6th, the conference will screen a new Israeli film, “Numbered,” dealing with Auschwitz survivors, to be followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr. Vivian Rakoff, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust-related

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psychiatry; Dr. Na’ama Shik, an historian from Yad Vashem; and Dr. Carson Phillips from Toronto’s Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre. On Monday, October 7th, participants will make presentations on such diverse matters as the dynamics of collaboration, evaluating evidence, media representation, and the persecution of Sinti and Roma.

The conference organizers have structured a dialogue among the participants, a critique of the papers by established Holocaust scholars from across Canada, and the participation of invited guests, including delegates to the IHRA.

The conference is open to the public and the media. Admission is free, and no registration is required.

For more information, or to arrange media interviews, please call

or email:

Call: 416.978.1624 Email: cjs.toronto@utoronto.ca

Visit: http://uoft.me/wolfe2013

The conference is sponsored by:

Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto

Department of History

Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History Centre for Russian, European, and

Eurasian Studies

Presented by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Government of Canada, with the support of the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Centre for Jewish Studies, CERES, Department of History, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History, and the Sarah & Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 20137:00 pm | Film and discussion

Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai’s Numbered (Israel 2012; subtitled)

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 20138:30 am — 5:00 pm | Book Exhibit8:30 am — 6:45 pm | Six Conference Panels

William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street

HOLOCAUST: New Scholars – New Research October 6 –7, 2013

This conference includes a film screening, a book exhibit and panel presentations, featuring new approaches by a new generation of scholars from around the world.

For more information and access to pre-circulated papers, visit http://uoft.me/wolfe2013

If you require an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us by September 27 at 416.978.1624.

FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO PUBLIC

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Presented by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Government of Canada, with the support of the Faculty of Arts and Science, the CJS, CERES, Department of History, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History, and the Sarah & Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education

Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.

Film presentation: Numbered, dir. Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai (Israel, 2012; in Hebrew with

English subtitles) Welcoming Remarks Introduction: Mira Goldfarb, Executive Director of the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto Moderator: Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies

Discussion Panel: Carson Phillips, Assistant Director, Sarah & Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto Na'ama Shik, Director of the Internet Department at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Vivian Rakoff, Psychiatrist, who has worked extensively with Holocaust survivors

Conference speakers will give brief summaries of pre-circulated papers. If you would like to request access to the longer versions of the papers, please contact Michal Kasprzak (michal.kasprzak@utoronto.ca).

Book Exhibit Featuring the Work of Conference Participants and Holocaust Scholars

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Moderator: Amanda Grzyb, University of Western Ontario Discussant: Jeffrey Kopstein, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto

Norman Domeier University of Stuttgart “What did the Global Public know? Foreign Correspondents in the Third Reich, 1933–1945” Ksenia Kovrigina University Paris 7 “Testimonial Urge: Holocaust Immediate Texts – Testimonies by Non-Writers in Soviet Territories” Noah Shenker Monash University “Through the Lens of the Holocaust: Traces of the Shoah in Testimonies of the Cambodian Genocide” Stephanie Benzaquen Erasmus University Rotterdam “Hashtag Holocaust: Social Networks, Production of Images, and the Cultural Memory of the Holocaust”

A European Project

Moderator: Alain Goldschlager, University of Western Ontario Discussant: John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta

Diana Dumitru Ion Creanga State University of Moldova “Peasants’ Perceptions of Jewish Life in Interwar Bessarabia and How this Became Interwoven into the Holocaust” Yuri Radchenko Center for Research of Inter-Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe “The Ukrainische Hilfspolizei and the Holocaust in Military Administered Zone in Ukraine, 1941-1943” Peter Staudenmeier Marquette University “Preparation for Genocide: The Center for the Study of the Jewish Problem in Trieste, Italy, 1941–1944” Danijel Matijevic and Jan Kwiatkowski McGill University “Remembering Krzesiny, Forgetting Kreising: A Small Polish Village amidst History, Memory, and Competitive Martyrology”

Militaries

Moderator: Irving Abella, York University Discussant: Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto

Michael Geheran Clark University “‘The Paradise of Theresienstadt’: Jewish Frontkämpfer and the Final Solution” Albert Kaganovitch University of Manitoba “How ‘Other’ Became ‘Same’: The Survival of Soviet Non-Ashkenazi Jews in Nazi Prisoner-of-War Camps” Vojin Majstorovic University of Toronto “Interpreting Genocide: Soviet Officers and the Holocaust in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Hungary” David Wildermuth Shippensburg State University “‘And from that moment, the Shoah began for us’: What Survivor Testimony Can Tell Us About the Wehrmacht and its Victims”

Lunch

Ways of Looking/Visual Tropes

Moderator: Sara Horowitz, York University Discussant: Dorota Glowacka, University of King’s College

Tanja Kinzel Free University of Berlin “Photographic Portraits Taken in Litzmannstadt/Lodz: The Different Perspectives of Two Jewish Photographers” Daniel Rosenthal University of Toronto “Virtual Representations of Jewish Life and Death: Digital Media and the Vicissitudes of Polish-Jewish History” Birga U. Meyer University of British Columbia “The Universal Victim: Representing Jews in European Holocaust Museums” Guido Vitiello University of Rome – La Sapienza “Retrospective Voyeurism: The ‘Peephole Motif’ in Contemporary Holocaust Cinema”

Forms of Cooperation and Collaboration

Moderator: Robert Jan van Pelt, University of Waterloo Discussant: Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa

Andrea Löw Center for Holocaust-Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich “Jewish Communities and Councils in Europe during World War II”

Mikhail Tyaglyy Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine) “The Attitudes of the Local Population in Ukraine toward the Persecution of the Gypsies/Roma, 1941–1944” Raymund Schütz VU University Amsterdam “Dutch Civil Law Notaries and the anti-Jewish Measures 1940–1945” Łukasz Krzyżanowski University of Warsaw “Starting Anew: Restitution of Jewish Property in the Immediate Aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland (Kalisz and Radom, 1945-1948)”

Postwar Issues

Moderator: Jennifer Evans, Carleton University Discussant: Doris Bergen, University of Toronto

Na’ama Shik Yad Vashem “Slovakian Jewish Women at Auschwitz Camp: Reflections on a Historical Event, Trauma and Gender” Malena Chinski General Sarmiento National University and Institute for Economic and Social Development “Arrival and Integration of Jewish Survivors in post-World War II Buenos Aires” Robert A. Ventresca King's University College at Western University “The Myth of the Pope’s Jews: Contours and Limits of Papal Relief and Rescue during the Holocaust and Beyond” Nadine Blumer United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) “Networking Memory: Germany’s Holocaust Memorials to Roma, Jewish, and Homosexual Victims in Comparative Perspective”

The conference is free admission and is open to the public. No registration required.

For more information:

Call: 416.978.1624 Email: cjs.toronto@utoronto.ca

Visit: http://uoft.me/wolfe2013

The conference is sponsored by:

Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies

Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto

Department of History

Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History Centre for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies