Nov

4 2018

to
Nov

5 2018

“Let the Artifacts Speak: Returning Humanity to Holocaust Victims”

12:30PM - 7:30PM  

Contact Sue Potechin
613-224-3133
irs@templeisraelottawa.ca
https://carleton.ca/hempopup/

The pop-up Museum will be available for viewing on Nov. 4th from 12:30-4:00 pm and on Nov. 5th from 6:00-7:15 pm. At 7:30 pm, our guest speaker, Dr. Robert Ehrenreich, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will speak on the subject of "Let the Artifacts Speak:Returning Humanity to Holocaust Victims." 

Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The number is staggering. It is the equivalent of almost seven Ottawas. How can we represent the magnitude of this crime without reducing the victims to mere numbers? How can we show, as Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg said so well, that “There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times”?  How do we convey that these were real people with real lives and families. In this presentation, I will discuss how personal items can turn the huge numbers of victims back into individuals and return their humanity, based on three case-studies: personal items discovered near shooting pits in Ukraine; damaged photographs from Poland; and a piece of mica from the Theresienstadt Glimmerwerke (mica works). For more information go to https://carleton.ca/hempopup/

Nov 4-5: Pop up museum Temple Israel 

In honour of Holocaust Education Month, the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Temple Israel Religious School, and the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship, are collaborating to create a Pop-Up Museum where local Ottawa families will tell the story of their family’s experience of the Holocaust through objects. Submit an item to participate in the Nov 4-5 Pop-Up Museum by the deadline Oct 15th. See web site for information and how to submit an item https://carleton.ca/hempopup/

 

Nov 5: Ehrenreich talk at Temple Israel 

Public Lecture – November 5
In addition to the public opening on Sunday, the Pop-Up Museum will also be open from 6:00-7:15 p.m. on November 5 and will be followed by a public lecture (suitable for adults and mature teens) at 7:30 p.m.

Title: “Let the Artifacts Speak: Returning Humanity to Holocaust Victims”
Lecture presented by: Dr. Robert Ehrenreich of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
 

Description: Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The number is staggering. It is the equivalent of almost seven Ottawas. How can we represent the magnitude of this crime without reducing the victims to mere numbers? How can we show, as Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg said so well, that “There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times”? How do we convey that these were real people with real lives and families. In this presentation, I will discuss how personal items can turn the huge numbers of victims back into individuals and return their humanity, based on three case-studies: personal items discovered near shooting pits in Ukraine; damaged photographs from Poland; and a piece of mica from the Theresienstadt Glimmerwerke (mica works).

Sponsor: ZC for Jewish Studies, Temple Israel Religious School, Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship,