The VHEC is Western Canada’s leading Holocaust teaching museum and reaches more than 25,000 students each year. We promote human rights, social justice and genocide awareness through education and commemoration of the Holocaust.
The VHEC produces thematic exhibitions, school programs, teaching materials, online exhibitions and has assembled and stewards Western Canada’s largest Holocaust-related museum collection, archives, survivor testimony project, library, rare books and special collections, and resource centre.
Through teaching exhibitions, docent-led visits to the Centre, student symposia on the Holocaust and in-class resources, we provide educators with tools, strategies and opportunities to explore the complicated history of the Holocaust. Our educational programs and resources foster an increased understanding of the Holocaust and its present-day relevance, and promote intercultural sensitivity and engaged citizenship among students and community members.