Speakers discuss the prosecution of Nazi war criminal Oskar Groening
The audience heard from two authors who documented the trial of Oskar Groening, as well as three survivors who testified at it.
Growing up as the son of a Nazi war criminal
Niklas Frank was the keynote speaker at a Holocaust Education Week event in Toronto on Nov. 2, which was attended by 1,400 people.
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Racism panelists discuss how to combat the alt-right
Experts from Jewish, Muslim, and the education backgrounds gathered together to discuss how to combat hatred that many ethnic groups are experiencing.
Polish gov’t worked to save Jews from Nazi persecution
The objective of The Council to Aid Jews, code-named Zegota, was also to counter anti-Semitism within the Polish community, says Prof. Joshua Zimmerman
Holocaust Education Week program pays tribute to Vilna poet/resistance fighter
Cantor Deborah Staiman pays tribute to the memory of a poet, a Jewish cultural activist, and a member of the ghetto resistance movement, Shmerke Kaczerginski
We must give real meaning to peace and ‘never again’
We all desire peace on a very direct and pragmatic level. Yet even here in Canada, when we examine the UN’s “sustainable goals,” how is our own report card
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: Web memes normalize Hitler and Nazism, prof says
Internet memes featuring Hitler and imagery from the Holocaust are normalizing and even trivializing a very disturbing period in history
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s HEW 2016 greeting
On the occasion of the 36th annual Holocaust education week, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne extends a greeting to the Jewish community
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WEEK: Facing a future without survivors
This year’s Holocaust Education Week (HEW) takes stock of the fact that first-person Holocaust testimonies are an increasingly rare commodity
Affinity Konar: an obsession with the twins of Auschwitz
Konar’s recently released, critically acclaimed second book, Mischling chronicles the experience of twin girls at the mercy of Joseph Mengele
