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B’nai Brith Canada pleased to announce appointment of University of Western Ontario academic to National Holocaust Task ForcePosted On 10/06/09
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
B’nai Brith Canada pleased to announce appointment of University of Western Ontario academic to National Holocaust Task Force
TORONTO, October 6, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Amanda Grzyb, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media at the University of Western Ontario, to the Advisory Board of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. The Task Force is chaired by Professor Alain Goldschläger, Director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute at Western, which contains one of the largest collections of Holocaust survivors’ published accounts.
Professor Grzyb’s teaching and research interests are focused on genocide studies, media and the public interest. She has also launched a new media studies course called Community Holocaust History, which includes a two-week travel component, over Reading Week, to sites of Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe.
Professor Goldschläger, a Professor of French Literature at the University of Western Ontario, is currently Ontario chair of the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada. He is a very prolific writer and author, and has published numerous books on issues related to the Holocaust.
“We are fortunate to have University of Western Ontario scholars of such calibre on our National Holocaust Task Force,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “We thank Professor Goldschläger for recruiting an academic of Professor Grzyb’s standing for our national initiative.”
The National Task Force on Holocaust Research, Remembrance and Education is a centralized body, operating under the auspices of B’nai Brith Canada, that will bring scholars, legal experts and educators together with Holocaust survivors and community stakeholders in an effort to share and enhance the important Holocaust research and educational work being done in Canada.
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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, Communications Officer:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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