Dr. Aileen Friesen and Dr. Hans Werner, of the University of Winnpeg present their research on Jews and Mennonites during the Holocaust. Dr. Friesent is Executive Director of the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation Inc.  As such she also serves as co-director of the new Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg, and works closely with the Mennonite Heritage Archives. Dr, Werner, Associate Professor, Mennonite Studies served as co-director of Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies and is the former Executive Directorof the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, Inc. Both presented last year at a groundbreaking conference at Bethel College in Nebraska, entitled "Mennonites and the Holocaust:" "The history of Mennonites as victims of violence in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly on the territory of the Soviet Union, and as relief workers during and after the Second World War has been studied by historians and preserved by many family histories. This commemorative and celebratory history, however, hardly captures the full extent of Mennonite views and actions related to nationalism, race, war, and survival. It also ignores extensive Mennonite pockets of sympathy for Nazi ideals of racial purity and among some in the diaspora an exuberant identification with Germany that have also long been noted. Now in the last decade an emerging body of research has documented Mennonite involvement as perpetrators in the Holocaust in ways that have not been widely known or discussed." Join the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada as we present Dr. Friesen and Dr. Werner on this important piece of history..