INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE
“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
From January to March 2014, the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre partnered with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to deliver a series of introductory level workshops on the Holocaust to students at LINC schools across Toronto.
The Canadian High Commission in Singapore hosted an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event on 21 February.
The "Keeping The Memory Alive" Poster Design Competition is a joint project supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) between Yad Vashem (coordinators), in cooperation with the London Jewish Cultural Centre, United Kingdom, the European Shoah Legacy Institute, Czech Republic, the 2014 Canadian IHRA Chairmanship, and the Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Programme.
In the fall of 2013, the Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta partnered with the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust to promote Holocaust remembrance and education.
The CIC-NFB virtual classroom on Holocaust education, a Canadian initiative focusing on innovative approaches to teaching about the Holocaust, is now live.
Concordia University in Montreal is hosting a conference on the targeting of culture during mass atrocities on 6-7 November 2013.
Holocaust Education Week 2013 in Toronto, Canada explores different national, generational and cultural narratives of the Holocaust and its aftermath: the historical narratives of countries and regions where the Shoah occurred, the personal and collective narratives of individual survivors and communities who rebuilt themselves elsewhere in the world, and the next generations who will perpetuate their legacies.
The Canadian government has invited six teams that were chosen as finalists in a design competition to create concepts for the future National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa.
The academic conference hosted by the University of Toronto will take place on 6-7 October, prior to the IHRA Plenary meetings in Canada.
The conference “Judaism and Education: Institutions, Curriculum, and Innovative Practices” will take place in Montreal, Canada from 2-4 October 2013.