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VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE
SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION & REMEMBRANCE
7:30 PM • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
Dayson Board Room, Jewish Community Centre
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On the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport, the VHEC invites you to spend an evening in and read the graphic novel, Good-bye Marianne: A
Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany, by local Holocaust survivor and author, Irene Watts, with illustrations by Kathryn Shoemaker.
Please consider making a significant gift today. Your gift will support the VHEC's educational programs and outreach to more than 15,000 B.C. students and teachers. The first 25 supporters who donate $360 or more will receive an original signed illustration by Kathryn Shoemaker from this unique graphic novel!
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VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE
Through artefacts and eyewitness testimony, this exhibit explores a little-known chapter of Canadian history: the story of some 2,300 mostly Jewish refugees interned as “enemy aliens" in Canada during the Second World War. The internees’ journey – from fascist Europe to refuge in England, imprisonment by Britain and Canada and eventual release – is a bittersweet tale of survival during the Holocaust.
The material collected from former internees, their families and archival sources offers insight into the context and experiences of internment.
EXHIBIT EXTENDED through summer 2013.
Please call 604.264.0499 for more information.
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VHEC LAUNCHES "ENEMY ALIENS" WEBSITE ON VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF CANADA
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre is proud to announce the launch of a new teaching website, “Enemy Aliens”: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940 – 1943. Part of the Virtual Museum of Canada, the website has been developed to enrich and extend the reach of the “Enemy Aliens” exhibit created by and on view at the VHEC through June 2013.
The “Enemy Aliens” website joins the growing number of virtual exhibits produced by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. The direct link to the “Enemy Aliens” website is www.enemyaliens.ca
Funded by the Canadian Heritage Information Network and produced in partnership with 7th Floor Media at Simon Fraser University.
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Support the VHEC in promoting human rights, social justice and genocide awareness through education and remembrance of the Holocaust.
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