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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 · Fonds · 1981-2019

Fonds consists of records generated by staff and volunteers of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre in the planning and administration of exhibitions, school programs, commemorative events, symposia, communications as well as a resource centre. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Exhibition records, Newsletters, Event programming records.

Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance
Event programming records
CA VHEC RA000-03 · Series · 1981–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Records in this series document the four main event programming areas of the VHEC. These are: commemorative programs, educational programs, cultural programs and tributes. Event programming is planned and organized by VHEC staff and advised by volunteer members of various committees, including the Outreach Committee and the VHCS Program Committee and its predecessors, the Kristallnacht Committee, the Cemetery Service Committee, the Yom HaShoah Committee, the Teachers’ Advisory Committee and the High School Symposium Committee.

Records in series are generated as a result of the organization of events produced or co-produced by the VHEC or the VHCS and include promotional materials, publicity, correspondence, meeting minutes, budgets, notes, video documentation and other related records. Series is divided into six sub-series based on event type: Commemorative programming, Symposia and school programming; Conference programming; Workshops, lectures and forums; Cultural programming and Tributes.

CA VHEC RA000-03-01-03 · File · 1988–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-sub-series is comprised of records created and kept by the VHCS and later, the VHEC, as a result of the organization of and participation in commemorative events held at the site of BC’s Holocaust Memorial, built by the VHCS’s Holocaust Memorial Committee and unveiled in 1987 at the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery in New Westminster. The memorial was intended to give members of the Jewish community a physical space to remember loved ones lost during the Holocaust, and to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten. The VHCS’s Cemetery Service Committee, and later, staff of the VHEC programmed an annual ceremony on the Sunday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the High Holidays), a Sunday traditionally observed as a time of the year to remember those who have passed away. Some programs are presented with the Schara Tzedeck congregation and the Jewish War Veterans.
Records in sub-sub-series include promotional material, correspondence, notes and planning documents.

Yom HaShoah
CA VHEC RA000-03-01-02 · File · 1987–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-sub series consists of records generated and accumulated as a result of the VHEC’s participation in and organization of events marking Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), observed in April or May each year on or around the 27th day of Nisan in order to mourn the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and to pay tribute to the Jewish resistance during that period. Yom HaShoah was first observed in Israel in 1951; it was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959 and is observed by Jewish communities internationally. The VHEC’s annual program brings together Holocaust survivors, successive generations and the wider public for candle-lighting, music and speakers. Programs were planned by volunteer members of the Warsaw Ghetto Committee, the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Yom HaShoah committee of the VHCS. After 2014 Yom HaShoah commemorative events have been organized by staff of the VHEC.

Records in sub-sub series include promotional materials, press releases, newspaper clippings, correspondence, notes, budgets and other documents created and/or kept by VHEC staff.

Survivor Outreach Program
CA VHEC RA000-03-02-02 · File · 1986–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Records in this sub-sub-series are created and kept by members of the Outreach Committee and by staff of the VHEC and pertain to educational outreach programming on the subject of the Holocaust in BC. At the time of the opening of the VHEC, the Outreach Committee’s mandate was to provide knowledge of the events of the Holocaust to BC students, educators and special interest groups through eyewitness testimony. Committee members trained and scheduled docents and speakers to share their memories of the Holocaust, including experiences of discrimination, segregation, separation from and loss of family, as well as life in hiding, the ghettos, concentration camps, liberation and immigration to Canada. Survivor outreach speakers visit schools and other locations to tell their personal stories, promote anti-racism and challenge youth to become committed and responsible global citizens, alert to bullying, discrimination, racism and genocide.

Sub-sub-series consists of textual records and photographs generated as a result of survivor outreach programming by the members of the Outreach Committee and by staff of the VHEC. Records in sub-series include minutes, notes, reports, letters from students and program lists. Records documenting district symposia are included in sub-sub-series.

CA VHEC RA000-03-03-05 · File · 2012, 2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-sub-series is conference program for the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants, held in Vancouver in 2019 in association with the VHEC and documents and audio recordings pertaining to the VHEC’s support of an exhibition of artworks by Malka Pischanitskaya organized as part of the conference.

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.

CA VHEC RA000-03-01-04 · File · 2006–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-sub-series is comprised of records generated and accumulated as a result of the VHEC’s participation in and organization of events marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on or around January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7. It honours the memory of victims of the Holocaust and rejects Holocaust denial and condemns religious intolerance and persecution.
Records in this sub-sub-series include programs, flyers, correspondence, budgets, notes and other documents related to the VHEC’s annual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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.

CA VHEC RA000-03-03-04 · File · 1999–2019
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-sub-series is comprised of records generated as a result of the VHEC’s organization of a bi-annual professional development conference aimed at educators teaching the Holocaust in elementary, high school and university settings. Conference programming is aimed at investigating strategies and rationale for teaching the Holocaust within the provincial curriculum. The Educators’ Conference was first programmed in 1999 under the guidance of the Teachers’ Advisory Committee and with financial assistance from the Shafran Endowment fund of the VHCS. It was renamed the Shafran Teachers’ Conference in 2003.

Records in sub-sub-series include conference programs, opening remarks, Teachers’ Advisory Committee meeting minutes, participant feedback, teacher packets and related materials.

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.

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.

Kristallnacht
CA VHEC RA000-03-01-01 · File · 1989–2018
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-sub-series consists of records generated and accumulated as a result of the VHEC’s organization of the Kristallnacht commemorative event in Vancouver, held annually in early November. Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” was a state-sponsored pogrom the night of November 9th, 1938; hundreds of synagogues in Germany and Austria were burned, Jewish-owned businesses were destroyed, nearly 100 Jews were killed and 30,000 men were sent to concentration camps. The mandate of the Kristallnacht Commemorative Program Committee was: to produce an informative, educational lecture that helps the community gain a deeper understanding of the events of the Holocaust, its implication for society and on the community, to bring in leading scholars, writers, researchers and thinkers who would not otherwise be heard in the community, and to foster dialogue by informing the community about the history of the Holocaust.

Records in sub-series were generated by volunteer members of the Kristallnacht Commemorative Program Committee and by VHEC staff. They include promotional materials, participant lists, press releases, instructions to candle-lighters, newspaper clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, budgets, transcripts of speeches and notes.

CA VHEC RA000--01--29 · Subseries · 1990-2017
Part of Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence, photocopied book excerpts, newspaper clippings, CDs, teacher's guide, copyedited panel texts and image captions and other records to do with the Janusz Korczak and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto exhibition, which ran from October 20, 2002, to January 3, 2003.