In conjunction with the exhibition the Melbourne Holocaust Museum is presenting a month-long public program including lectures, discussion panels and films involving academics, mental health practitioners, community-aid workers and leading members of the Jewish and wider communities. These events will cover a range of topics pertinent to the exhibition and current world events.
| Public Program |
| Thursday 26 July, 12.00pm: “The Rescuers: Picturing Moral Courage” by Leora Kahn (USA). |
| Sunday 29 July, 4.00pm: “Stories of rescues in Genocide in Bosnia, Cambodia and Rwanda” by Leora Kahn (USA). |
| Tuesday 31 July, 7.30pm: “Upstanders and Bystanders” by Leora Kahn (USA). |
Wednesday 1 August, 7.30pm: “When Good Breaks Out during Genocide:
Righteousness in the Face of Evil” by Prof Paul Bartrop. |
| Thursday 2 August, 7.00pm: MHM Film Club screening of “The Last Survivor” (2010). |
Sunday 5 August, 4.00pm: “Rescuing one’s own humanity in the Bosnian genocide: Srdjan Aleksic did it,
the UNPROFOR did not” by Dr Hariz Haililovich. |
| Tuesday 7 August, 7.30pm: “Genocide, Rescue and Reconciliation in Rwanda” by Sue Hampel. |
| Thursday 9 August, 7.30pm: “Standing Up Against Injustice” by Gary Samowitz. |
Sunday 12 August, 4.00pm: “Helping our youth to become rescuers: what are the necessary attitudes,
skills and considerations” by Zvi Civins. |
| Tuesday 14 August, 7.30pm: “Raphael Lemkin” by Dr Donna-Lee Frieze. CANCELLED |
Thursday 16 August, 7.30pm: “Rebuilding shattered lives – reflections on 25 years
working with refugees to Australia” by Paris Aristotle AM. |
| Sunday 19 August, 4.00pm: “Cambodia – a case of Autogenocide” by Prof Maurice Eisenbruch. |
| Tuesday 21 August, 7.00pm: MHM Film Club screening of “Army of Crime” (2009). |
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Proudly sponsored by:
George & Freda Castan Families Charitable Foundation
The Nordia Foundation
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