Recognizing and Addressing Antisemitism

Training Day in English

Recognizing and Addressing Antisemitism

In light of the rise in antisemitic incidents across Canada, are you looking for strategies to discuss this issue with your students and colleagues? Are you seeking classroom activities to help deconstruct antisemitic stereotypes?

Join us for a full-day training session offered in partnership with the Azrieli Foundation and Facing History and Ourselves:

• Tuesday, November 4, 2025
• 8:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
• Montreal Holocaust Museum : 5151 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road, Montreal, QC H3W 1M6
• The session will be held in English
• Advance registration is required

This training is completely free for teachers and education professionals.
Substitute teacher costs are covered up to $250 per participant (see procedures).
Breakfast and lunch are included.
Spots are limited — please confirm your registration as soon as possible by completing the registration form.

Program Schedule

• 8:45–9:00 a.m. – Welcome (Coffee/Tea & Pastries)
• 9:00–9:15 a.m. – Introduction to the training day
• 9:15–10:45 a.m. – Workshop: The Rise of Nazism: How Antisemitism Consumed a Modern Democracy (Azrieli Foundation)
• 10:45–11:15 a.m. – Session: Recognizing Contemporary Antisemitism (Montreal Holocaust Museum)
• 11:15–11:30 a.m. – Break
• 11:30–12:30 p.m. – Session: Exploring Jewish Diversity (Montreal Holocaust Museum & Facing History and Ourselves)
• 12:30–1:15 p.m. – Lunch break (Meal provided)
• 1:15–2:30 p.m. – Understanding Antisemitism Through the Voices of Holocaust Survivors’ Descendants (Montreal Holocaust Museum & Facing History and Ourselves)
• 2:30–3:45 p.m.
  • Guided tour of the Museum
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  • Workshop: Recognizing Antisemitism (Montreal Holocaust Museum)

• 3:45–4:00 p.m. – Conclusion

The Organizations

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 14,000 documents and artefacts come from donations made by survivors and their descendants. In addition, there is a remarkable collection of some 970 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.

The Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs 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.

Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization, founded by educators in 1976. The organization uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry and hate.