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Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide

MONDAY, JULY 4 

1 – 5 pm EST (10 am – 2 pm PST)

Location: Virtual
Audience: Teachers of grades 5–12
Cost: Free of charge

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre will be moderating a panel for the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s FREE virtual seminar: Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide. If you are a teacher who wants to deepen your knowledge of the Holocaust and genocide broadly, learn how to tackle sensitive subjects in class, and expand your educational resources, then this is for you!

The seminar is comprised of:

1. Welcome and acknowledgements

2. Keynote speaker: Dr. Doris Bergen

3. Panel discussions: Teaching about the Holocaust and sensitive topics

4. Testimony from a Holocaust Survivor

5. Concluding remarks

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Rediscovering History: Collecting & Researching the Jewish Garment Industries of Germany & Austria

A presentation by Claus Jahnke, Fashion Historian and Collector

Vancouver-based fashion historian and collector Claus Jahnke is the owner of one of the most significant collections of German and Austrian historical clothing outside of Europe. Pieces from his collection have been exhibited in Vancouver, Toronto, New York and Vienna. Jahnke began collecting as a young man, often finding treasures at auctions and in thrift stores, or, in exceptional cases, from the descendants of emigrants in North America. In the 1990s, Jahnke discovered a pair of shoes at the Salvation Army in New Westminster. Manufactured by Gallus Shoes in Göttingen, Germany—a factory belonging to the Hahn family—the shoes are intrinsically linked to the VHEC’s current exhibition, Treasured Belongings: The Hahn Family & the Search for a Stolen Legacy.

Claus Jahnke regularly consults for historians and other researchers. In 1999, he acted as co-curator for the VHEC-produced exhibition  Broken Threads: The Destruction of Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria, which examined the methodical destruction of Jewish involvement in the European fashion industry in the 1930s and 1940s.

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