28th Annual Vanier Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide, Nov. 9-13, 2020

Vanier College is pleased to announce that the 28th Annual Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide, Our Duty of Memory and Witness, will be taking place November 9-13, 2020.  The symposium will be held virtually and registration for the events will be mandatory: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/holocaust-genocide-symposium/annual-vanier-college-symposium-holocaust-genocide/. The Symposium is co-sponsored by The Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Foundation.  The schedule includes the following speakers:

Kyle Matthews, the Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University will discuss Social media, Online Hate and Incitement to Violence, November 9th at 10:00

Eva Kuyper, Holocaust survivor born at the start of WW II in Warsaw, will speak on Hidden Children, Unknown Heroes, November 9th at 1:00

Moses Gashirabake, Foundation Genocide Education,Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and Chair of the Rwandan Canadian Healing Centre.  Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi. November 10, 10:00

Dr. Raphael Cohen-Almagor has taught at universities in the United Kingdom, Israel and the United States, including Oxford, Jerusalem, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins and is the author of more than 250 publications. Freedom of Expression vs. Social Responsibility: Holocaust Denial in Canada, November 11th 10:00

Tommy Schnurmacher, an award-winning broadcaster, author of a post-Holocaust memoir Make-up Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life. Memories of Mom and Mayhem, November 11 at 1:00

 Dr. Matthias Becker, Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Technical University in Berlin. Understanding Online Antisemitism: Towards a New Linguistic Approach, November 12th 10:00

Dr. Barbara Perry, Ontario Tech University. Hate crimes in Canada, November 12th at 1:00

Allan Whitehorn, Royal Military College of Canada. Armenian Genocide, November 12, 3:00

Heidi Berger is the founder and president of The Foundation for Genocide Education. She is also an award-winning film producer and professor of communications at Concordia University. Never Again: Honouring my mother's legacy, November 13, 10:00

Ben Bicher, (Holocaust survivor), was a Jewish child hidden in a Catholic orphanage in Belgium during the Holocaust. Surviving the Holocaust in a Catholic Orphanage, Time TBA