Concordia University Library presents
Memory and Commemoration: The Azrieli Holocaust Collection at Thirty
Join us for a keynote address and a panel of experts on memory and the holocaust as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Azrieli Holocaust Collection.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Room 767, 7th Floor, Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, Quebec
2 p.m. – Opening remarks
Guylaine Beaudry
University Librarian
Concordia University
Fred Lowy, OC
Member, Azrieli Foundation Board of Directors and former President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University
Frank Chalk
Professor, Department of History and Director Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Concordia University
2:20 p.m. – Panel of Emerging and Established Scholars
Holocaust and National Socialism as lieux de mémoire in Contemporary Migration of Central European Romani People
Stefan Benedik
University of Graz
From the Margins to the Centre of Holocaust Studies: Commemorating the Nazi Genocide of the Roma
Nadine Blumer
Concordia University
Holocaust Survivors and a Road Not Taken
Henry Greenspan
University of Michigan
Liberation Day: Commemoration, Politics, and the Story of a Death March, 1945-95
Adam Seipp
Texas A&M University
4:20 p.m. – Break
4:45 p.m. – Remarks from the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Holocaust Memoirs and Research in a Changing World
Stacy Hushion, Department of History, University of Toronto.
5 p.m. – Keynote
A Boy's Voice from Terezin:
A Holocaust Diary and an Oral History
Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her research embraces many key issues in Holocaust history, from the lives of Jewish children to the many functions of Auschwitz. A question period will follow.
Debórah Dwork | Photo credit: Jonathan Edelman
6 p.m. – Closing remarks
Geoffrey Little
Scholarly Communications Librarian and Curator of the Azrieli Holocaust Collection, Concordia University
6:10 p.m. – Reception
Sponsored by the Azrieli Foundation and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Montreal, and in the presence of Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs,
Concordia University
The Azrieli Holocaust Collection was established in 1984 with an endowment from Montreal architect, businessman and philanthropist David Azrieli, CM, CQ, M.Arch (1922-2014), whose parents, brother, and sister died in the Holocaust. Today the collection is the largest and most specialized in Canada on the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, the history of anti-Semitism and the history of Jewish-Christian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Azrieli Foundation is a federally registered Canadian foundation that supports and operates a range of initiatives in various fields, including: Holocaust education and commemoration, scientific and medical research, the promotion of excellence in education and access to education, and the advancement of excellence in architecture and the arts.
Sponsors: Azrieli Foundation; Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Austrian Embassy in Ottawa, Concordia University Library, Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Religion, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Montreal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies; McGill University Department of Jewish Studies