Sunday, March 25th, 2012 – Monday, March 26th, 2012 Jewish Life and Death in the Soviet Union During World War II

DateTimeLocation
Sunday, March 25, 20129:00AM - 6:00PMExternal Event, Debates Room, 7 Hart House Circle
(2nd floor of Hart House, at the centre of the South side of the building)
Monday, March 26, 20129:00AM - 6:00PMExternal Event, Debates Room, 7 Hart House Circle
(2nd floor of Hart House, at the centre of the South side of the building)

Description

Featuring:
• The Annual Lecture of the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies (Sunday, March 25, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.):
• Ilya Altman
• (Founder and Co-Chairman, Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center, Moscow; Professor RGGU; and Yad Vashem Fellow)
• “The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Unknown Pages”
• Canadian premiere of Mikhail Kalik’s Goodbye Boys (1964, with English subtitles) on March 24, 7 p.m., Innis Town Hall, with introduction and commentary by Olga Gershenson .
• Presentations from Wendy Lower (Clark), Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan), Karel Berkoff (NIOD Institute for War), Gennady Estraikh (New York University), Harriet Murav (Urbana), John Paul Himka (University of Alberta), Gennady Kostyrchenko (Moscow Institute of History at the Academy of Science), Oleg Budnitskii (National Research University Higher School of Economics), and many others. (Sunday, March 25, 1 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.; and Monday, March 26, 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
• A photo exhibit from the Blavatnik Institute (New York): Jewish Lives in the Great Patriotic War.
• Book Exhibit.
• Registration is not required. For further information, please contact Emily Spinggay (Centre for Jewish Studies ) or Michael Kasprzak (michal.kasprzak@utoronto.ca).

Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Co-Sponsors

Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Centre for Jewish Studies

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