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More than just games: The 1936 Olympics were held in Nazi Germany at a critical juncture between the building of the racial state and the Holocaust. The world faced a decision about whether to participate in these controversial Games. Canadian athletes, particularly young Jewish athletes, were caught in a dilemma. Should they follow their dreams to the world’s greatest athletic competition or should they boycott the 1936 Olympics? Read more
Framing Bodies: FRAMING BODIES: Sport and Spectacle in Nazi Germany explores the relationship between athletics, politics and visual culture during the 1936 Games. |
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nuremberg: Over 60 years after the Allies established the International Military Tribunal to try Nazi leaders for their roles in the systematic murder of millions of people during the Holocaust and Second World War, the Nuremberg trials stand as a watershed moment in the ongoing pursuit of international justice. The United Nations’ declarations on genocide and human rights, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the International Criminal Court at the Hague all reflect principles established at Nuremberg. The Nuremberg exhibit traces the history of the trials, highlighting their accomplishments, controversies and legacies, and considers human rights issues that demand response and resolve from the international community today. Read moreExhibit specs & booking info |
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Vancouver's Schindler Jews Vancouver's Schindler Jews presents the story of Oskar Schindler who rescued over 1000 Jews during the Holocaust, through the unique perspective of four Schindlerjuden who later immigrated to Canada and found new lives in Vancouver. The exhibit is based on the personal narratives, documents, photographs and artefacts of the four Schindler survivors - Else Dunner, Bernard Goldberg and Esther and Leon Kaufman - ensuring that their unique voices will not be lost. |
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Janus Korczak and the Children Janusz Korczak was one of the world’s first advocates of children’s rights. On August 6, 1942 he became a heroic figure. On that day, this Polish-Jewish doctor, writer and educator was forced to gather together the two hundred orphans under his care in the Warsaw Ghetto and report for deportation. Refusing all offers for his own rescue, he led them with quiet dignity to the tram that would take them to the Treblinka extermination camp, where he perished with them. |
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Ravensbruck: The Ravensbrück women’s camp was located near Berlin. The only Nazi concentration camp built specifically for women, it was a centre for the economic exploitation of female prisoners – a profit making enterprise with the goals of re-education, work, and extermination. In the six years that Ravensbrück existed 132,000 women and children passed through its gates. 117,000 perished, the highest mortality rate of any concentration camp on German soil. |
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Life Unworthy of Life: Life Unworthy of Life tells the disturbing story of the Hadamar Institution, a Nazi ‘euthanasia’ killing centre in Germany. By 1941 more than 10,000 men, women and children were murdered at Hadamar as a direct result of Nazi racial policies. The primary victims of the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ and forced sterilization program were German children and adults who were blind, deaf, physically disabled or mentally handicapped, epileptics, orphans, juvenile delinquents and nonconformist youth. |
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Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust chronicles the little-known story of the thousands of Jews who sought and found refuge in wartime Shanghai. Based on the oral histories of Shanghai-landers now living in Vancouver, the exhibit tells their stories through the use of documents and photographs. Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust presents the compelling history of this special sanctuary and of those who survived through resolve, adaptability and resourcefulness. |
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Open Hearts Closed Doors Open Hearts – Closed Doors tells the story of the arrival, on Canadian soil between 1947-49, of 1123 Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust. The exhibit, produced by the VHEC, chronicles the lives of these children as they emerged from the Holocaust. |
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