Faces of Loss: Remembering Those Who Perished is an online memorial exhibition on the victims of the Holocaust, whose families later immigrated to Canada and lived in Vancouver. Families touched by the Holocaust loaned their precious few pre-war photographs of family members. In many cases, no photographs remain of those who perished. This online exhibition serves to remember and mourn these victims, while restoring the human, personal element to what has become an abstraction of numbers.

Exhibition Curator (2005): Roberta Kremer
Website Development (2022): Sarah Ruediger

With support from Starbucks, L’Chaim Catering, Harvey Sandler, and the members of the community who lent photographs of their family.

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Following World War II, a group of young Jewish orphans immigrated to Canada from the devastation of Europe. Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project is an online and bilingual teaching exhibition that chronicles the lives of these orphans as they emerged from the events of the Holocaust into displaced person camps and eventually to new lives in Canada. This multimedia website uses the orphans’ own words and artefacts as well as documents and photographs to provide students with a powerful learning experience about the Holocaust and the broader history of Canadian immigration during the 20th Century.

The site provides extensive support for students and teachers in middle and secondary school, social studies and language arts classrooms. The teacher’s guide, web links, maps, biblio-videographies and pop-up glossary terms can be browsed online or downloaded as printable classroom materials.

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