November
8-14, 1998 Ottawa Ethnic
cleansing, hate literature, genocide,
killing fields, and xenophobic nationalism
are contemporary terms evoking echoes of
the past. As the experiences of today
elicit haunting images of previous
atrocities, there is an urgent need to
educate the public about what prejudice
can and did lead to during the
Shoah. The
Kleinmann Family Foundation, and
the Institute for International Affairs
of B'nai Brith Canada in cooperation
with the Holocaust Literature Research
Institute of the University of Western
Ontario, McGill University, and the
Association of Holocaust
Organizations, are organizing the
third conference, Building History:
Legal Memory, Contemporary
Judgements in this prestigious
series. The
pilot conference, Building History:
Holocaust In Education took place in
Vienna, March 9-16, 1997. The second
conference, Building History: Art, Memory,
and Myth took place in Munich, November
9-14, 1997. Participants included
academics, artists, educators,
representatives of education ministries,
and Holocaust organizations from Austria,
Canada, Czech, Germany, Hungary, Israel,
Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United
States. These
conferences resulted in two publications
by The University of Western Ontario
(London) and McGill University European
Studies (Lang: New York). A resource
centre in Vienna for dissemination of
Shoah resource materials to eastern
European countries subsequent to the
conference was established. Building
History: Legal Memory and Contemporary
Judgements will focus on the the
integration of the Shoah within North
American culture and conscience. The
challenges is in the representation and
transmission of the events, dissociated by
time and space. A two day component of
this conference will be devoted to war
crimes and human rights law with the goals
of identifying the obstacles that have
hindered Nazi war crimes investigations
and domestic prosecutions and developing
effective measures to prevent those
obstacles from impeding future Nazi and
modern day war crimes trials. War crimes
investigators and prosecutors, legal
scholars, government officials and
educators will examine and assess the
reasons for the failure of the
international community to deal
effectively with Nazi war criminals.
Learning from the mistakes that have
resulted in impunity for the perpetrators
of the Shoah will inform us in cases of
contemporary mass human rights violations.
Suggested
Workshops and Panels Web
Memory Site Borrowed Memory
North American Memorials Art and Memory
Art or Memory
America's Appropriation of the Shoah
Legal and Political Memory
Canada and War Criminals
Post-Nuremberg Legal Responses to the
Shoah
Cases in Applied Human Rights
International Cooperation
Possibilities and Limitations
The Future of War Crimes Prosecutions
Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals
Why Continue Exhibit
of survivors' art: Memory
Vectors Distinguished
participants include Irving Abella,
Vicki Bennett, Melvin
Charney, Robert Gellately,
Phyllis Lambert, David
Matas, and Sybil
Milton.
For
further information and registration
contact: Naomi
Kramer Tel (514) 735-3636 Fax (514)
735-6363 E-mail
[email protected] The
conference will take place in the
Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Affairs and the
proceedings will be published by McGill
European Studies (Lang: New
York).Opening
reception Sunday November 8, 5:50 P.M.,
National Art Gallery of
Canada.
Don't
miss the Second International Symposium
on Hate on the
InterNet,
says Ken McVay, one of the haters:
Toronto,
March 21-23, 1999. Info:
[email protected]
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
Müller, 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 Deschênes,
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 | 
Building
History: Ottawa, November 8-14,
1998
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