UBC experts are available to comment on the Holocaust and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 1945.
Peter Klein
Director, Graduate School of Journalism
– child of Holocaust survivors who lost family members at Auschwitz
Tel: 604-822-6682
Email: peter.klein@ubc.ca
Richard Menkis
Dept. of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies & Department of History
– different perspectives of perpetrators, bystanders and rescuers
– Canadian Jewry
– Antisemitism in Canada
Tel: 604 822-1374
Email: menkis@mail.ubc.ca
Bozena Karwowska
Dept. of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
– leads a “Witnessing Auschwitz” research seminar in Poland that includes 11 days in Auschwitz
– prisoner art
– survival strategies
– regional ethnic tensions
Tel: 604-737 2529
Email: bozena@mail.ubc.ca
Peter Suedfeld
Dept. of Psychology
– psychology and resilience of Holocaust survivors
– life of Holocaust survivors after liberation
Tel: 604-822-5713
Email: psuedfeld@psych.ubc.ca
Students who participated in the May 7 to June 3, 2014, Witnessing Auschwitz seminar:
Audrey Tong
Tel: 604-961-9323
Email: audreytong93@gmail.com
Emily Winckler
Tel: 604-916-2948
Email: emilywinckler_1@hotmail.com
Carlos Halaburda
Tel: 604-346-9953
Email: gustavohalaburda@hotmail.com