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 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.
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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 Collection (originating institution)
Faces of Survival: Photographs by Marissa Roth (originating institution)
Treasured Belongings: The Hahn Family & the Search for a Stolen Legacy (originating institution)