• Holocaust education teaches
    important lessons from the past

  • & inspires students to stand up
    for human rights & social justice.

  • The VHEC

    commemorates the past

  • and educates for the future.

    School ProgramsCurrent Exhibitions
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The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) is an acclaimed teaching museum devoted to Holocaust based anti-racism education.

The Centre, a leader in Holocaust education, engages 25,000 students and teachers annually and promotes human rights, social justice and genocide awareness through education and commemoration of the Holocaust.

Holocaust-based
anti-racism education

Through the following programs, Holocaust education assists students and visitors in developing an understanding of the causes, signs and consequences of prejudice, racism, antisemitism and stereotyping in any society.

4,000+

Items in the
Collections

25,000+

Students engaged
each year

2,300+

Event Attendees
each year

WHAT WE DO
FIND OUT WHY

TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST & ANTI-RACISM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.

CURRENT MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Faces of Survival
Photographs by Marissa Roth

June 2018 – Fall 2019

This VHEC exhibition is a commissioned series of portraits of Holocaust survivors by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Marissa Roth.

The 40 portraits depict the survivors – volunteer VHEC board members and Holocaust survivor speakers – both past and present – in a unique and powerful way.

Details

In Focus:
The Holocaust through the VHEC Collection

June 2018 – June 2019

In Focus: The Holocaust Through the VHEC Collection displays more than 80 distinctive artefacts donated by local Holocaust survivors offering a narrative of the Holocaust through historical themes.

Details

VISIT THE MUSEUM

SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Powerful and timely
anti-racism education programs

BRING A PROGRAM
TO YOUR SCHOOL

WHAT STUDENTS SAY

“We are the leaders of tomorrow and it is less likely for us to make the same mistakes as the leaders of the past”

Grade 8 StudentSurrey, BC

“I never really clued in on how bad war could really be… Please continue speaking about your life. You really made a difference and I will never forget you.”

Grade 10 StudentAbbotsford, BC

“It’s important to study historical injustices so we can understand what people have went through, and so we never repeat them.”

Grade 9 StudentBurnaby, BC

“On the day you spoke, it was my 16th birthday. I received many presents. It wasn’t until I was sleeping that I realized that the knowledge of the effects of hatred and importance of love was the greatest present of all and for this I want to thank you…”

Grade 10 StudentLangley, BC
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