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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Events Hosted by the Office of the Dean of Students and Community Partners

Sunday, January 25, 2026 17:00toTuesday, January 27, 2026 18:30
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free and $10

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). The date marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi’s largest concentration and extermination camp.

IHRD helps keep vital lessons from history alive in public memory and can help strengthen our abilities recognize and resist dehumanization and the subtle, mundane means by which atrocities sometimes occur.

Below are two local Holocaust Remembrance Day events that will bring the history to life:

January 25th, 5:00 PM:Ìý ForÌýInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, join the Montreal Holocaust Museum for the Montreal premiere of the documentary film “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire.â€ÌýThe screening will be followed by a discussion with his son,ÌýElisha Wiesel, who continues to uphold his father’s humanitarian legacy through his work as Chairman of the Board at the Elie Wiesel Foundation.ÌýEighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behind Elie Wiesel’s searing and widely read memoir Night. Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire penetrates to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)—his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and employing hand-painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher, public figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Tickets are $10, and

January 27, 2026, 5:00-6:30 PM: Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorative LectureÌý(organized by the Office of the Dean of Students) Professor Aliza Luft, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor Luft will share her research on the Holocaust in France in a lecture titled “Between God and Vichy: Religion, Race, and the Holocaust in France." Professor Luft's research examines the fluctuating relationships between social identity, ideology, and interpersonal, socio-political action in contexts marked by war and violence. Her book, Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press in Fall 2026. Location:ÌýThomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish.

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