INDIFFERENCE and the Fragility of Civilization

LGen The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret) and Father Patrick Desbois in Dialogue

Thursday, May 2, 7:30 PM * Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, NE corner Academy at Wellington Cres.

LGen The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret) served with the Canadian Armed Forces for over 35 years. His book and Emmy award winning feature film, Shake Hands With The Devil, explores his experience as the Force Commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda, which exposed the international community’s failure to stop the worst genocide of the late 20th century. As a champion of human rights, his activities include speaking engagements related to human rights and genocide, participation in the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention, and leadership in a project to eliminate the use of child soldiers.

Father Patrick Desbois is the president of the Yahad–In Unum Association and has devoted his life to confronting antisemitism and furthering Catholic-Jewish understanding. For over 10 years he has worked with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum staff in his journey to locate the mass graves of Jews who were killed in the Ukraine during the Holocaust. He is also recording testimonies from eyewitnesses and locating artifacts to help the historical preservation of the Ukraine’s former Jewish Community. These will become part of the Holocaust Museum’s permanent collection.

Naomi Azrieli, Moderator has been the Chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation since 2002, a charitable organization that supports a number of philanthropic projects which includes publishing the memoirs of Holocaust Survivors. She has also been active in academe, writing and lecturing in the past on the international political economy, European diplomacy in the 19th and 20th centuries, Soviet foreign policy during and just following World War II, and the origins of the Cold War.

Register 204 452 3711 | info@shaareyzedek.mb.ca | Walk-ins Welcome | Free

Sponsored by the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada Inc., The University of Winnipeg Global College and Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

- Submitted by Nancy