EUNIC Panel @ Holocaust Education Week
Presented by the European National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), the Munk School of Global Affairs & the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre.
With millions of pages of historical documents, photographs and film recorded by perpetrators, victims and rescuers, along with thousands of hours of recorded testimony from survivors as well as perpetrators, the Holocaust is the most documented case of genocide in the world. Yet much remains unknown, awaiting discovery.
This year’s
Holocaust Education Week (HEW) sheds light on untold stories, new research, and marginalized histories of the Holocaust. HEW 2018 creates a platform for them to be heard and understood, expanding the familiar picture.
The postwar trials, the opening of the Red Cross archives through the International Tracing Service, and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe which enabled scholars to access Soviet-era holdings, all contributed to new insights into the complexity and context of how the Holocaust unfolded.
Illuminating the Shadows is a European-Canadian Panel on activating archives and new approaches to Holocaust memorialization at the invitation of EUNIC Toronto at the Munk School of Global affairs.
European speakers:
- Germany: Director of Archives at the Jewish Museum Berlin Aubrey Pomerance on "Empathetic Encounters. The Archival Workshop Program of the Jewish Museum Berlin"; 1 - 2 PM
- Austria: Historian, member of the Austrian Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and director of the Neugestaltung des Österreichischen Heldendenkmals project in Vienna (Reconceptualisation of the Austrian Hero’s Monument) Heidemarie Uhl (via Skype from Vienna); panel title TBC; 2 - 3 PM
- France: Head of Digital Humanities at the Shoah Memorial in Paris Aurore Blaise on "Untold Stories of the Survivors - Paths Beyond Files"; 3 - 4 PM
The speakers will each present their work, followed by contextualizations by Canadian respondents and a Q&A.
Conference language: English
Aubrey Pomerance is a guest of the Goethe-Institut Toronto.
Pomerance speaks about ‘Empathetic Encounters. The Archival Workshop Program of the Jewish Museum Berlin.’ Since 2004, the archive of the Jewish Museum Berlin has been conducting workshops with students and educators that examine the lives and fates of Jews in Germany between the years 1933 and 1945. In a unique approach, the workshops combine the examination of original materials with encounters with individuals who experienced their childhood and youth in National Socialist Germany.
Aubrey Pomerance was born in Calgary, Alberta. He studied Jewish Studies and History at the Free University of Berlin. He has been Director of Archives at the Jewish Museum Berlin and the branch of the Leo Baeck Institute Archives at the museum since 2001. Pomerance has published on Jewish memorial culture, German Jewish History, Jewish lives and fates during the period of National Socialism, Jewish photographers in Berlin in Weimar and National Socialist Germany, and on archive studies and archival pedagogy.
EUNIC Canada are the Alliance Française, Aula Cervantes Calgary, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français (represented by the French Embassy in Ottawa and the French Consulate General in Toronto) and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
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