Allan Adel, National Chair, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada

Allan Adel, National Chair of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, is a member of the Quebec Bar and practicing attorney since 1980. He is an active member of B’nai Brith’s Board of Governors, National Board, and Executive Committee. A leading community and human rights activist, he is a frequent media contributor on a range of pressing human rights issues and has also lectured at Concordia University.


Michael Brown, Professor, Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, ON

Michael Brown, an ordained rabbi, is professor emeritus of Jewish Studies, Humanities, History, and Hebrew Language at York University, where he also served as director of the Centre for Jewish Studies.  His publications include The Israeli-American Connection: 1914-1945, as well as scholarly and popular articles related to Israel, Zionism, and Hebrew literature.


Paula J. Draper, Holocaust Historian

Dr. Paula Draper is a Holocaust historian who specializes in memory history. In 1986 she created and oversaw the Holocaust Documentation Project of the Toronto Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre.  She has lectured at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and served as Vice-President of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies. Dr. Draper has been involved in a multitude of Holocaust-related projects, including the Royal Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, and as Lead International Trainer for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.  Dr. Draper has published widely on the topic of Canada and the Holocaust, and is now researching the post-war experiences of Canadian Holocaust survivors. She is author of The Accidental Immigrants: Canada and the Interned Refugees, co-author of Nouvelles perspectives sur le Canada, La Shoah et ses survivants and co-editor of A Nation of Immigrants.

 
Hilary Earl, Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON

Hilary Earl is Assistant Professor of History at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. Professor Earl teaches courses on the History of the Holocaust, Comparative Genocide, German History, and European Fascism. Her research focuses on the role and motivation of the SS in the Final Solution on the Eastern Front during the Second World War and on the Nuremberg war crimes trial. She has also researched the Armenian genocide and issues in comparative genocide and the law. She has received fellowships from the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Leonard and Kathleen O’Brien Humanitarian Trust. She has published her research widely, including in Lessons and Legacies (2004) and Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust (2006). Her book, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. Her most recent project, The Genocide Paradox, is an historical examination of the legal outcomes of war crimes trials from Nuremberg to The Hague.


Yude M. Henteleff, Chair, Contents Advisory Committee, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg

Yude M. Henteleff, C.M., Q.C., LL.D. is a founding partner and senior counsel of the legal firm of Pitblado LLP, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Over the past 40 years he has acted as a human rights advocate in Canada and in many countries on behalf of vulnerable people, including persons with mental and physical disabilities and special needs children. He has been a presenter, adjudicator, writer and workshop facilitator on many aspects of human rights in Canada and in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Thailand, South Africa, Kyrgyzstan and Israel. He is Chair of the Human Rights Content Advisory Committee of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and a member of its Cabinet Committee. His honourary awards include the 2008 Human Rights Commitment Award of Manitoba and the 2002 Commemorative Medal for Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, He was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada in 1998.


Andrea Knight, Managing Editor, Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Publishing Program, Azrieli Foundation, Toronto, ON

Andrea Knight is the Managing Editor of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, published by the Azrieli Foundation. Before joining the Azrieli Foundation in 2008, she worked for more than ten years for a number of different Canadian publishers such as Malcolm Lester, Knopf Canada, University of Toronto Press, Key Porter Books, Dundurn Group, and McArthur & Company. She has an M.A. in history from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto


Albert Lo, Chairman, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Richmond, BC

Mr. Albert Lo is Chairman of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a federal Crown Corporation established under the Canadian Race Relations Foundation Act as a result of the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement.  He is also a Member of the British Columbia Provincial Committee on Diversity and Policing.  In addition to his diverse experience as a businessman and senior executive in television broadcasting, real estate and other businesses, he has played a leadership role in a number of organizations to promote respect for human dignity, social harmony, and cross-cultural cross-religious dialogue.  He has a wealth of experience in the areas of diversity management, employment equity, inclusive policy development and ethno-cultural workshops and seminars.

Melissa Mikel, Director of Education, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, Toronto, ON

Melissa Mikel is the Director of Education at the Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. She has designed and implemented programs that deal with sensitive issues, most notably teaching Holocaust to younger-aged students, from Kindergarten through Grade 8. Through these programs she has observed firsthand the manner in which studying these issues encourages students to develop increased levels of empathy and a willingness to stand up for what is right. She is actively involved in designing and presenting programs to high school students on topics of the Holocaust, genocide, and racism.


Moïse Moghrabi, Quebec Regional Chair, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada

Moïse Moghrabi is a Montreal-based lawyer. He is Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada, a member of its executive committee in Quebec, and the Quebec Chair of the organization’s League for Human Rights. He has made numerous presentations to Quebec’s National Assembly on a wide range of human rights issues, including an address before the Quebec Parliamentary Committee on Culture, which held hearings on combating racism and antisemitism. He also sits on the Quebec Bar Association’s Committee on Cultural Communities, whose mandate it is to advise the Bar on questions of equality in order to ensure that the justice system reflects the diversity of the community. In this capacity he is actively involved in the implementation of strategies to eliminate discrimination from the legal profession and the legal system.


Joan O’Callaghan, Instructor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Joan O’Callaghan has been on faculty at OISE at the University of Toronto since 1996, training high school English teachers. Joan has been the recipient of the Golden Apple Award from Queen’s University for excellence in teaching; she has been named Professor of the Year by the OISE Students’ Council as well as Most Inspirational Instructor. She is the author of three books, and has published articles in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun and the Jerusalem Post.  She currently chairs the League for Human Rights Student Human Rights Award and is Educational Chair of B’nai Brith’s Operation Thank You. In 2006, she presented at a Yad Vashem conference in Jerusalem, “Teaching the Holocaust to Future Generations.”


Mark Webber, Professor, Centre for German and European Studies, York University

Mark Webber was educated at Harvard College (B.A.) and Yale University (M.Phil., Ph.D.) and is associate professor of German Studies and Humanities at York University. He teaches and publishes in the fields of metaphor theory, nineteenth and twentieth century German literature, interculturality, and the Holocaust. He is the past Director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University and of the Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Student Exchange Program.

Together with Professor Michael Brown, he initiated and administers the Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education at York University. In 1993, the Federal Republic of Germany presented him with the Officer’s Cross of the Federal Order of Merit in recognition of his contributions to German-Canadian and Christian-Jewish understanding.