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65th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
January 20, 2010
Montreal, January 25th, 2010 - To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 65th year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre has organized a day exploring citizen responsibility and engagement.
Through theatrical readings of Address Unknown, National Theatre School actors get involved. Staged in the exhibition space of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (5151 Cote-Ste-Catherine), National Theatre School of Canada actors will engage multiple audiences with theatrical readings of Kressmann Taylor's novel.
- At 10:30AM - in English for Saint-Thomas High School students,
- At 1:30PM - in French for L'École International de Montreal,
- At 6:00PM- in French, open to the public,
- At 7:00PM- in English, open to the public .
Address Unknown was written in 1938, as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his German best friend and business partner, who had returned to Germany in 1932 and gradually adopted the ideology of Nazism.
Remember & Take Action 65 Years after Auschwitz: In 1938, Kressmann Taylor engaged as a global citizen by writing a novel denouncing the Nazism. The simplicity, vision and literary form of her message reached a large audience. Today, 65 years after Auschwitz, there is still much need and an individual responsibility to defend human rights.
How can we encourage more people to stand up against injustice?
At 8:15PM - bilingual panel with MHMC partners involved in the defense of human rights: Steve Baird, Darfur/Sudan Peace Network, Sandra Gasana, Life Stories Projects, Susyn Borer, MHMC.
Alice Herscovitch, Executive Director of the Centre will moderate the discussion between National Theatre School actors, the panelists and the public.
A day dedicated to remembrance and education: In 2005, the United Nations declared that the January 27, the anniversary day of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Auschwitz was the largest death camp and for this reason it represented the systemic Nazi genocide against the Jews.
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference.
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Press Contact: Audrey Licop 514-345-2605 ext. 3026 514-892-2605 (cell.) audrey.licop@mhmc.ca
