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Building History: Legal Memory and
Contemporary Judgements
November 8-13, 1998, Ottawa, Canada
National Art Gallery of Canada
Reception
Sponsored by the Embassy of Switzerland
Sunday, November 8th, 5:30-7:00 PM
Opening Remarks, Dr. Irving Abella
Lawrence Hart, President, B'nai Brith Canada
Institute for International Affairs
Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade
Conference Rooms
Monday, November 9th, 1998 , 9:00-10:00 AM
Greetings
Peter Kleinmann, President, Kleinmann Family
Foundation
Jonathan Wener, Board Member, Kleinmann Family
Foundation
Dr. William Shulman, President, Association of
Holocaust Organizations
Memorials: Distanced Memory
Panel, 10:00 AM-12:00
Chair: Phyllis Lambert, Canadian Centre of
Architecture
Dr. Vicki Bennett, Editor-in-Chief University
of Ottawa Press, Memory as Sacred Space
Dr. Jonathan Huener, University of Vermont,
Auschwitz: Killing Centre to Museum
12:00-1:00 PM, Lunch
Integrating Events Occurring in Foreign Lands
into Canadian Public Conscience
Lecture, 1:00-2:00 PM
Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign
Affairs and
International Trade, Canada
Memory Vectors
2:15-3:15 PM
Dr. Alain Goldschlager, University of Western
Ontario, Memoirs: The Memory of History
Appropriate Memorials?
Panel, 3:00-5:00 PM
Dr. Trudis Goldsmith-Reber, McGill University,
Ghettos in Death: Images of Jewish Life
Naomi Kramer, Appropriating the Shoah
Anna Rosmus, Scholar, Associate Researcher
USHMM, European Response to North American
Memorials
Kristallnacht Commemoration
7:30 PM
Jewish Community Centre
1780 Kerr Ave
Remarks: Ambassador David Sultan
Tuesday, November 10th, 1998, 9:00-10:15 AM
Web: Memory site
Panel and Site Visits
Dina Kitouki, LLB, Carleton University, Old
Hate and New Technology: Pedagogical
Guidelines
Richard Hitchens, Auschwitz: Virtual Visits
Legacy of Absence: Art of Genocide
Lecture, 11:00 AM-12:00
Clifford Channin, Rockefeller Foundation
12:00-1:30 PM, Lunch
International Perspectives: Teaching the Shoah
Panel, 1:30-3:00 PM
Chair, Dr. Peter Daly, McGill University
Rositta Kenigsberg, United States Holocaust
Memorial Council,
Florida International University
Regina Wyroll, Goethe Institute, Munich,
Germany
Representative from Canadian Department of
Multiculturalism
Dr. Karen Mock, B'nai Brith, League for Human
Rights
Israel
Lecture, 3:15-4:15 PM
Dr. Shlomo Aronson, The Integration and
Politicization of Shoah Memory in Public
Conscience, Hebrew University
Public Art: The Limits of Representation
Site visits, 4:30-5:30 PM
Canadian Tribute to Human Rights Monument,
Canadian War Museum and the Museum of
Civilization
Wednesday, November 11th, 1998, 9:00-
10:30 AM
Voices of Memory: Reflections for the Future
Chair, Lee Macdonald, Chief Archivist,
National Archives of Canada
Peter Kleinmann
Dr. David Elkin, Canadian POW
Dr. Hans M”ller, Danish Rescuer
Remembrance Service
Canadian War Monument, 11:00-11:30 AM
11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Lunch
An Ambivalent Legacy: Memorializing the
Holocaust outside Europe
Lecture 1:00-2:00 PM
Dr. Sybil Milton, Scholar
Fact Finding in War Crimes Cases
Panel 2:30-4:30
Chair: Lisa Armony, National Director,
Institute for Int'l Affairs B'nai Brith
Dr. Ruth Bettina Birn, Chief Historian, War
Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity
Section(Canada)
Howard Margolian, Former Lead Investigator,
War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity Section
(Canada)
Sol Littman, Canadian Representative, Friends
of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre
Concert
7:30 PM
Museum of Civilization
Lost Generation
Susan Hoepner and Cordula Hacke
Reception following
hosted by the Embassy of Germany
Thursday, November 12th, 1998 ,
9:00-10:15 AM
Legal Memory and Contemporary Judgements
Panel
Chair, Dr. Alti Rodal
Dr. Irving Abella, York University
Dr. Irwin Cotler, McGill University
Eli Rosenbaum, Director, Office of Special
Investigations
War Crimes Cases: Educational and Historical
Tools
Panel 10:15-11:15 AM
Chair, Professor Stephen Scheinberg, Concordia
University
Jon Siverman BBC
Myrian Eser Daviolo, Switzerland
Dr. Frank Chalk, Concordia University
War Crimes Prosecution in Source Countries
Lecture, 11:30 AM-12:30
Dr. Henry Friedlander, Brooklyn College City
University New York
The Trials of the Nazi Euthanasia Killers
Lunch
12:00-1:00 PM
Challenges of Canadian Prosecution of War
Criminal
Lecture, 1:00-2:30 PM
Mr. Justice Jules Deschˆnes, Commissioner,
Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, Former
Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for
Yugoslavia
War Criminal Prosecutions
Panel, 2:45-4:00 PM
Chair, Richard Bogroch, National Co-Chair,
Inst for Int'l Affairs
Chris Amerisinghe, Prosecutor War Crimes and
Crimes Against Humanity Section
Graham Blewitt, Deputy Prosecutor,
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia
Peter Kremer, Former Director War Crimes and
Crimes Against Humanity Section
Friday, November 13th, 1998, 9:00-10:45 AM
Civil Remedies for War Crimes
Marvin Kurz, National Co-Chair League for
Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada
Shawn Roberts, Legal Director Centre for
Justice and Accountability
Dr. Harris Schoenberg, B'nai Brith
International
The Future
Panel, 11:00-12:15 AM
Chair: Rubin Friedman Dir. Gov't Relations,
Canada, B'nai Brith
Graham Blewitt, Deputy Prosecutor, ICTY
Philippe Kirsch, Senior Legal Advisor, DFAIT
David Matas, Honourary Senior Legal Counsel,
B'nai Brith Canada
Jelena Pajic, Lawyers' Commission for Human
Rights
Roundtable
12:15-1:00
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