Sunday, April 6 - Monday, April 7
McKenna Hall

Sunday, April 6
3:00 pm
Opening Remarks
Juan Mendez, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide

4 p.m.
Witnesses of Genocide
Aaron Elster, Holocaust Survivor
Ibrahim Musa Adam, Darfur Survivor

7:00 p.m.
Film: Beyond the Gates
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
Introduction by Daniel Kimmel, Film Critic
Location: Debartolo Performing Arts Center

Monday, April 7
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
The Media Looks at Genocide
Ellen Barry, Journalist
Elizabeth Becker, Journalist
Daniel Kimmel, Film Critic
Thane Rosenbaum, Writer, Law Professor, Human Rights Advocate
Summary:
Bridget Conley-Zilkic, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

10:45 - 11:30 a.m.
Reconciliation
Egide Karuranga, Rwandan Survivor, Hotel Des Miles Collines
Fr. Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, Director of Center UBUNTU, Bujumbura, Burundi

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Menachem Rosensaft, Founding Chairman, International Network of
Children of Jewish Survivors

7:45 - 9 p.m.
After Auschwitz and the Twin Towers: Trauma and Memory
Thane Rosenbaum, Liss Lecturer

Sponsors of this event include:
University of Notre Dame Theology Department
Notre Dame Holocaust Project
The Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Center for Social Concerns
Center for Civil & Human Rights
College of Arts & Letters
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Institute for Scholarship in Liberal Arts

For more information, please contact:
Betty Signer, Coordinator
Notre Dame Holocaust Project
130 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574.631.7635 phone
574.631.8209 fax
bsigner@nd.edu

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