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Tributes
CA VHEC RA000-03-06 · Subseries · 1990–2013
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Records in sub-series document the planning and organization of tribute events honouring individuals active in the Jewish community in BC, and significant figures in the history of the Holocaust. Records in sub-series include invitations, press releases, research materials and other documents.

Cultural programming
CA VHEC RA000-03-05 · Subseries · 1989–2009
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of records generated as a result of the cultural programming activity of the VHEC and/or the VHCS. Records in sub-series include promotional and educational materials, budgets, publicity, correspondence and guest lists related to events organized or sponsored by the VHEC or the VHCS. Sub-series is further divided into sub-sub-series based on cultural form: Film and video events (1992–[2003]), Book events (1992–2003), Art and photography events (1989–1998), Music, theatre and radio events (1994–2009) and Other cultural events (1991–2005).

CA VHEC RA000-03-04 · Subseries · 1995–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series is comprised of correspondence, promotional material and other records related to lectures, workshops and discussions programmed or co-presented by the VHEC. Events are programmed for audiences of adults, including teachers, members of the Jewish community, other cultural groups and the wider public.

Conference programming
CA VHEC RA000-03-03 · Subseries · 1985–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series is comprised of records pertaining to the organization of educational conferences programmed for adults, including teachers, the second generation of Holocaust survivors and other members of the Jewish community.

Conferences are arranged in chronological order. They are single events with the exception of the Shafran Teachers’ Conference, which is bi-annual. Sub-series is arranged into the following sub-sub-series: Primo Levi conference (1993–1999), The Past Hangs Over the Future conference (1992–1999), The Second Generation and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2001), the Shafran teachers’ conference (1999–2019) and the 31st annual SFJCSH&D conference (2019).

CA VHEC RA000-03-02 · Subseries · 1981–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series is comprised of records pertaining to educational programming geared primarily toward senior high school students. Main program areas are classroom outreach, district-wide symposia and an annual symposium on the Holocaust. Sub-series includes records documenting the organization of a symposia aimed at adults, Judgement on Nuremberg, programmed in 1996, and its accompanying school program, the Student Mock Trial of Julius Streicher.

Sub-series is divided into three sub-sub-series by program area: Annual symposium on the Holocaust records (1989–2019), Survivor Outreach Program records (1986–2019) and Judgement on Nuremberg program records (1996–1997, 2008). Most records are generated by VHEC staff. Some pre-date the opening of the centre and were created by volunteer members of the VHCS and its committees focused on educational programming.

Commemorative programming
CA VHEC RA000-03-01 · Subseries · 1987–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series is comprised of records documenting the programming of commemorative events organized annually by the VHEC. It is divided into four sub-sub-series by commemorative program: Kristallnacht, Yom HaShoah, High Holidays and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sub-series includes records from past commemorative programming activities organized by members of the VHCS.

VHCS Update
CA VHEC RA000-02-02-01 · Subseries · 1989–1994
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of issues of the VHCS Update, a newsletter printed by the Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society between 1989 and 1994 in order to provide information about the society’s activities and local, national and international events of interest to its members.

Faces of Survival
CA VHEC RA000--01-57 · Subseries · 2017–2018
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of administrative records, promotional materials, catalogues and black-and-white print photographs of Holocaust survivors related to the Faces of Survival exhibition, which ran from June 2018 to August 2019 at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.

CA VHEC RA000--01--55 · Subseries · 2016
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of School booking forms, scrapbooks, loose scrapbooks page, research materials, Oral History Project material, correspondence, publicity, teachers materials, guest books, exhibition texts, rental agreement, exhibition photographs and slides, Canadian Heritage Information Network records and other records to do with the Open Hearts - Closed Doors: The War orphans Project exhibition, which ran from March 1 to July 29, 2016.

CA VHEC RA000--01--43 · Subseries · 2004-2013
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of research materials, promotional materials, correspondence, project proposals, handwritten notes, printed webpages, copyright agreements, and other records to do with the More Than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics exhibition, which ran from October 15, 2009, to June 18, 2010. Some records related to companion exhibition, Framing Bodies: Sport and Spectacle in Nazi Germany.