Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Also known as: Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, VHEC
The VHEC is an acclaimed teaching museum with a mission to promote human rights, social justice and genocide awareness through education and remembrance of the Holocaust. The VHEC, a leader in Holocaust education, engages 25,000 students and teachers annually. The VHEC produces thematic exhibits, school programs, teaching materials, online exhibits and has a museum collection and archives, survivor testimony project, library and resource centre. The VHEC presents numerous public cultural and commemorative events and publishes a newsletter, Zachor, three times a year.Â
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"Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940–1943 (originating institution)
Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust (originating institution)
Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944–45 (originating institution)
In Defiance: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (originating institution)
Vancouver Dutch Survivors: Companion Exhibition to Anne Frank in the World, 1929–1945 (originating institution)
Visas for Life: The Story of Feng Shan Ho (originating institution)
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project (2016) (originating institution)
The Post War Photographs of Henry Ries: Rothschild Hospital and Exodus 1947 (originating institution)
Regenerations: A Twenty-year Retrospective of the Holocaust Work of Nomi Kaplan (originating institution)
We Were Children Then: Vancouver Child Survivors Remember (originating institution)
Forced Exit: A Student Art Exhibit (originating institution)
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (originating institution)
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project (originating institution)
Rhodes and the Holocaust: One Survivor's Story (originating institution)
Janusz Korczak and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto (originating institution)
Shoes of Memory: Holocaust Ceramic Work by Jenny Stolzenberg (originating institution)
Too Close to Home: Nazism and Anti-Semitism in Canada (originating institution)
Life Unworthy of Life: The Euthanasia Crimes of Hadamar (originating institution)
The Gesher Project (originating institution)
Fragments: Personal Artefacts of Local Holocaust Survivors (originating institution)
Ian Penn: Projections—A Monument to Personal Memory (originating institution)
Nuremberg: Justice in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (originating institution)
Building Bridges: Student Art Exhibit (originating institution)
May 31, 1944 (originating institution)
Ravensbrück: The Forgotten Women of the Holocaust (originating institution)
Faces of Loss: Remembering Those Who Perished (originating institution)
Vancouver’s Schindler Jews (originating institution)
More Than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics (originating institution)
Framing Bodies: Sport and Spectacle in Nazi Germany (originating institution)
Out of the Archive: Companion Exhibition to Anne Frank: A History for Today (originating institution)
The Holocaust in Hungary: Companion Exhibition to Carl Lutz and the Legendary Glass House in Budapest (originating institution)
In Focus: The Holocaust through the VHEC Collection — Digital Captions (originating institution)
In Focus: The Holocaust through the VHEC Collections (originating institution)