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Lecture - Dr. Valerie Hébert - 'Nothing is to be gained by creating an internal problem in an effort to meet an International one': Canada's Response to the Jewish Refugee Crisis

  • 27 Apr 2022
  • 7:30 PM
  • Thunder Bay Museum - Virtual

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Please join the Society for this virtual event that is free to view.  The lecture will be broadcast live via ZOOM and posted to the Museum's YouTube at a later date.  

This lecture is being presented in support of the traveling exhibit  "And in 1948, I came to Canada": The Holocaust in Six Dates  on display at the Thunder Bay Museum from April 6th until July 24th, 2022.

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Description:

Dr. Valerie Hébert will discuss Canada's response to the Jewish refugee crisis in the prewar and wartime years, setting it in context of domestic concerns and priorities, as well as other nations' actions.


Short bio: 

Valerie Hébert is associate professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Lakehead University Orillia where she teaches on modern European history, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and the photography of human rights violations and international conflict. She has won fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Hebrew University, and the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has published on the Nuremberg Trials, Rwanda’s Gacaca Tribunals, the German resistance figure Kurt Gerstein, and Holocaust Photography. In 2020, she was awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for the book project: Five Shots from Sdolbunow: Photographs of the Holocaust by Bullets, 1942. 

Thank you to the members of the planning committee who volunteered their time and knowledge in preparing this event.  

  • Dr. Charles Levkoe
  • Dr. Deb Scharf
  • Mitch Goldenberg

A special thank you to the leadership and members of the Shaarey Shomayim Synagogue for their support of the Thunder Bay Museum.  

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