Holocaust Resource Center Executive Director Adara Goldberg, Ph.D., Named to Canadian Advisory Panel

Adara Goldberg, Ph.D., executive director of the Holocaust Resource Center and Human Rights Institute of Kean University, has been named to an advisory panel created to review Canada’s national Holocaust monument. 

The panel, which includes educators and members of key stakeholder groups in the U.S. and Canada, will guide reviewing and renewing the interpretive exhibit and descriptive texts at Canada’s National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa.

A historian and educator specializing in Holocaust, genocide studies and human rights education, Goldberg is the author of Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955. The book received the Marsid Foundation Prize by the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards for best book in the Holocaust category. 

"Holocaust education and remembrance are paramount to combating Holocaust denial, revisionism and antisemitism in Canada, the United States and around the world,” Goldberg said. “Canadian Heritage's commitment to ensuring that the National Monument in Ottawa remains current and meets the needs of future generations of North Americans speaks volumes. As a historian of the Holocaust, and specifically the resettlement and adaptation of Holocaust survivors in early postwar Canada, it is an honor and privilege to contribute to this important work." 

In a recent announcement, Canadian Heritage Minister the Hon. Pascale St-Onge, said the panel’s work will increase Canadians’ awareness of the Holocaust and “the need to combat hate in all its forms.” 

“The memory of the Holocaust must be preserved to ensure that the lessons of the past are never forgotten,” St-Onge said.