Are you a high school or CEGEP teacher? Are you wondering how to address the Holocaust with your students and integrate it into your curriculum? Would you like to discover new activities?
Register now for this professional training day organized by the Azrieli Foundation, Yad Vashem, and the Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Tuesday, November 5, 2024
- From 8:45 am to 3:30 pm
- At the Montreal Holocaust Museum
5151, Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road Montreal H3W 1M6
- Reservations required
- Training in English
The training day, which includes breakfast and lunch, is completely free for teachers and members of the education community. In addition, the costs associated with your substitution will be covered by the Azrieli Foundation.
Space is limited. We strongly recommend that you register as soon as possible by completing the application form or by contacting Marc-Olivier@azrielifoundation.org
The Program
- 8:45 am – 9:00 am : Welcome (coffee/tea and pastries)
- 9:00 – 9:30 am: Introduction to the training day
- 9:30 am – 11:00 am: Guided tour of the Montreal Holocaust Museum
- 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Flashes of Memory: Learning about the Holocaust through Photography Yad Vashem Workshop
This session, based on the Yad Vashem exhibition Flashes of Memory, will provide tools for critical use of historical photographs when learning about the Holocaust. This learning environment will support the students in a world where historical truth is repeatedly challenged, and will trigger reflection on the need for a more responsible use of historical imagery.
- 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Lunch break (meal provided)
- 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm: Seeking Refuge: Learning about Immigration to Canada before, during and after the Holocaust Azrieli Workshop
This session will explore the newest educational activity from the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program of the Azrieli Foundation. By exploring primary sources and first-hand accounts, this activity encourages students to learn about the range of experiences of survivors, both during and after the Holocaust. Students will develop a greater understanding of Canada’s role and response during the Holocaust, in addition to exploring one of a few ways that survivors made their way to Canada after the war.
- 2:15 pm – 3.15 pm: Finding Refuge in Canada: The Cahn Family’s story Montreal Holocaust Museum workshop
In this workshop, participants will discover how the anti-Jewish measures imposed by Nazi Germany had a direct impact on the Cahn family’s life. They will then understand how the family was able to find refuge in Canada through the help of a family friend, Mr. William Birks.
Participants will begin by analyzing primary sources which belonged to the Cahn family. They will then place these primary sources into context to better understand the Holocaust and how Canada responded to Nazi persecution.
- 3.15 pm – 3.30 pm: Feedbacks and conclusion
The Organisations
The Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoir Program
Since 2005, the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program has published the first-person memoirs and diaries of well over a hundred Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Canada. We stay true to the authors’ voices while producing exceptionally researched narratives that are historically accurate. Our educational resources, which accompany many of our memoirs, are welcomed by middle and high school educators across Canada. We help teachers bring the subject of the Holocaust into their classrooms, using first-person narratives as a way for their students to meaningfully connect with the history of the Holocaust through survivors’ experiences.
Established in 1953, Yad Vashem – the International Institute for the Remembrance of the Holocaust – has been entrusted with the commemoration, documentation, research and education about the Holocaust. Located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem has several museums, research and educational centres, and memorials. Yad Vashem’s International School of Holocaust Education offers a wide range of activities for students and teachers in Holocaust education. It develops innovative teaching methods, creative educational materials and customized multimedia tools for teachers around the world.
The Montreal Holocaust Museum was founded in 1979 by survivors who wished to promote Holocaust education, combat Holocaust denial, and create a place of remembrance for the 6 million Jews murdered during the genocide. The majority of the collection’s 13,000 documents and artefacts come from donations made by survivors and their descendants. In addition, there is a remarkable collection of some 900 recorded testimonies. Since its founding, the mission of the Montreal Holocaust Museum has been to inform and sensitize people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, as well as the dangers of antisemitism, racism, hatred and indifference.
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