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B’nai Brith Canada pleased to announce appointment of Prof. van Pelt of the University of Waterloo to Advisory Board of National Holocaust Task ForcePosted On 10/05/09
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
B’nai Brith Canada pleased to announce appointment of Prof. van Pelt of the University of Waterloo to Advisory Board of National Holocaust Task Force
TORONTO, October 5, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Robert Jan van Pelt, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Waterloo, to the Advisory Board of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.
Professor Robert Jan van Pelt has lectured at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture since 1987, and held appointments at many institutions of higher education across Europe, Asia and North America. He is the recipient of many academic honours, including the National Jewish Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published seven books and contributed chapters to more than 20 books. His most recent books are Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946, co-authored with Deborah Dwork (Norton, 2009), The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial (Indiana University Press, 2002), and Holocaust: A History, co-authored with Deborah Dwork (Norton, 2002). An internationally-recognized authority on the history of Auschwitz, van Pelt appeared in Errol Morris’s film Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. and contributed to the BBC/PBS series Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.
“Professor van Pelt in an internationally-renowned expert on the Holocaust,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “He will be an excellent addition to our National Task Force.”
The National Task Force on Holocaust Research, Remembrance and Education is a centralized body, operating under the auspices of B’nai Brith Canada, that will bring together scholars, legal experts and educators with Holocaust survivors and community stakeholders in an effort to share and enhance the important Holocaust research and educational work being done in Canada.
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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, Communications Officer:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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