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VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION & REMEMBRANCE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED
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VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE
Through artefacts and eyewitness testimony, this exhibit explores a little-known chapter of Canadian history: the story of some 2,300 mostly Jewish refugees interned as “enemy aliens" in Canada during the Second World War. The internees’ journey – from fascist Europe to refuge in England, imprisonment by Britain and Canada and eventual release – is a bittersweet tale of survival during the Holocaust.
The material collected from former internees, their families and archival sources offers insight into the context and experiences of internment.
The exhibit will be on view through June 2013.
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VHEC LAUNCHES "ENEMY ALIENS" WEBSITE ON VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF CANADA
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre is proud to announce the launch of a new teaching website, “Enemy Aliens”: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940 – 1943. Part of the Virtual Museum of Canada, the website has been developed to enrich and extend the reach of the “Enemy Aliens” exhibit created by and on view at the VHEC through June 2013.
The “Enemy Aliens” website joins the growing number of virtual exhibits produced by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. The direct link to the “Enemy Aliens” website is www.enemyaliens.ca
Funded by the Canadian Heritage Information Network and produced in partnership with 7th Floor Media at Simon Fraser University.
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SCHOOL PROGRAM
OCTOBER 3, 2012 – JUNE 14, 2013
“Enemy Aliens”: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943 explores the nation’s wartime internment of approximately 2,300 civilian refugees of Nazism, most of them Jewish. The school program, recommended for grades six to twelve, uses artefacts and testimony to engage students in a discussion about this little-known chapter of Canadian history.
The “Enemy Aliens” school program is supported by the Lutsky Mendelson Family Charitable Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Vancouver.
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Support the VHEC in promoting human rights, social justice and genocide awareness through education and remembrance of the Holocaust.
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