Tours of the permanent exhibition

Visite de l'exposition permanente du Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal

Guided Tour | 90 min.

10 to 48 participants, or more if a second program is booked for the same group

The guided tour offers participants the opportunity to discover the history of the Holocaust through in-depth explanations from our guides. The knowledge and the anecdotes they share allow participants to learn more about the objects and testimonies presented in our permanent exhibition and to humanize the victims of the Holocaust.

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Self-Guided Tour | 60 min. or more

10 to 60 participants, or more if a second program is booked for the same group

The self-guided tour allows participants to discover the Museum’s permanent exhibition on their own (without a guide). After a brief introduction by one of our front desk agents, participants can explore, at their own pace, the history of Jewish communities before, during and after the Holocaust. For groups who are interested, an activity sheet provides historical context and focuses the visit on certain objects in the exhibition.

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Learn more about our permanent exhibition.

Themes covered in the permanent exhibit:

  • 1st Section (early 20th century): Jewish communities in Europe and North Africa, Jewish traditions and holidays.
  • 2nd Section (1919-1939): Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic, Hitler’s accession to power, persecution of the Jews, propaganda, the reaction of German Jews, the pogrom of the Night of Broken Glass, the reaction of Canada and the world.
  • 3rd Section (1939-1950): The invasion of Poland, non-Jewish victims, the ghettos, deportation, concentration camps, armed and spiritual resistance, the Righteous Among the Nations, the collaborators
  • 4th Section (1945-1955): Liberation, displaced persons’ camps, immigration of survivors to Canada.

Max Eisen’s interactive biography |60 min.

10 to 60 participants or more if a second program is booked for the same group

KEY THEMES : TESTIMONY, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AUSCHWITZ

Dimensions in Testimony, a technology developed by the USC Shoah Foundation, enables participants to interact with Max Eisen’s pre-recorded testimony, and discover his personal experience as a Holocaust survivor.
Accompanied by a mediator, participants are invited to converse with Max Eisen, asking him numerous questions about his experience before, during and after the Holocaust. The answers to their questions are selected from pre-recorded responses given by Max.

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Resistance during the Holocaust workshop: the Feigenbaum family story | 60 min.

10 to 48 participants at the Museum, or more if a second program is booked for the same group

KEY TOPICS : STAGES OF GENOCIDE – RESISTANCE

In this workshop, participants will discover the story of Avrum Feigenbaum and his family during the Holocaust. The Feigenbaum family lived in Lodz, Poland, before the war. After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the family was imprisoned in the ghetto where Avrum’s father died from starvation. The rest of the family was successively deported to Auschwitz. Out of seven family members, only Avrum and his brother, Hersh, survived.
Through analyzing primary sources (documents and testimonies), participants will better understand the different stages of genocide, as well as how Avrum and his family resisted at every stage.
This workshop was designed to complement the teacher’s guide Studying Genocide.

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Testimony with a Holocaust Survivor

Léon Celemencki, Holocaust survivor, meeting pupils from Buissionnière school. Montreal, 2016

Survivor testimony | 60 min.

10 to 60 participants at the museum or more if a second program is booked for the same group

A survivor testimony adds a personal dimension to the history of the Holocaust and the millions of victims. It puts students in direct personal contact with a complex and incomprehensible part of history.

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