Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 30
What story do you want to leave behind for the people you love? Join playwright Ronit Rubinstein for a storytelling workshop at the Chutzpah! Festival, open to all. Friday, November 6, 2026, 9:30 AM at the @JCCVancouver. Snacks provided! Tickets are $10: buff.ly/0FehIQZ
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 29
A story that captivated Toronto audiences is coming to Vancouver: the West Coast premiere of Things My Dad Kept by Ronit Rubinstein at the Chutzpah! Festival. Wed, Nov 4, 2026, 7:30 PM, Rothstein Theatre at the @JCCVancouver. Pay what you will. Tickets: buff.ly/bvcAHh1
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 28
We honour all who served, including Jewish Canadians. Join us with Hillel BC, @JMA_BC, @JewishFedBC, and JSABC for a Bagel Lunch & Ceremony with Captain Adam D. Braverman.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:15 PM
Free. Register: buff.ly/RT7H6vc
#RemembranceDay
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 27
Join us on Monday, November 9, 2026 at 7 PM as we remember Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass." Keynote speaker: Dr. @HeidiTworek (UBC). Presented with Congregation Beth Israel. Free, all welcome.

RSVP: buff.ly/OZKnJoc

#Kristallnacht #HolocaustRemembrance
Archival photograph of a storefront with shattered display windows, overlaid with the text “Kristallnacht Commemoration, Monday, November 9” and the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre logo.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 26
Congratulations to Ryan Holly (École Kelowna Secondary School) and Hofit Sabi (Vancouver Talmud Torah), recipients of the 2026 Kron Sigal Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education celebrated at our AGM.

Read more: buff.ly/lhRvqMs

#HolocuastEducation #VHEC
Our Director of Education, Lise Kirchner, and Hofit Sabi smile as they hold a framed certificate for the Meyer & Gita Kron and Ruth Kron Sigal Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education.Ryan Holly appears on a large screen during our Annual General Meeting, captioned “Ryan Holly, École Kelowna Secondary,” while Lise Kirchner stands at the podium and audience members look on
Black and white photograph of Ruth Kron Sigal.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 23
What can football teach us about confronting racism and exclusion? October 27, 2026: Holocaust Education in the Modern Stadium with Daniel Lörcher (@BVB) and José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez. Introduction by Jennifer Scott, @WhitecapsFC Vice President of Community and Social Impact.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 23
B.C. is one year into mandatory Holocaust education in Grade 10. Our Director of Education, Lise Kirchner, spoke with @TheCJN:

“With the loss of eyewitnesses, the danger, of course, is that it fades into the background.”

Read: buff.ly/0QkQaKW
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 21
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our AGM on October 14, 2026! It was a wonderful evening to reconnect, reflect on the past year, and celebrate all we've accomplished, including an insightful talk from Director of Education Lise Kirchner.

Photos: Johann Wall

#VHEC
A full room of attendees seated in rows at the VHEC’s Annual General Meeting. Executive Director Hannah Marazzi speaking at a podium during the Annual General Meeting.
Attendees raise their hands to vote during the Annual General Meeting as Board President Al Szajman speaks at the podium. Director of Education Lise Kirchner presenting “Teaching the Holocaust in a Digital Age” beside a slide on screen.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 20
Tonight, October 20, 2026: join us for Wendy Oberlander’s films Nothing to be written here and Still (Stille), followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. 7 PM, @DunbarTheatre. Register: buff.ly/yfARSDl
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 20
Catch up on our football series: watch The Dual Role of Football During the Holocaust buff.ly/9uRPFUk and our Q&A with Simon Kuper buff.ly/LTUxK5f. Then join us for our free final event on October 27, 2026, at 6 PM. Register: buff.ly/Ktrgjz2
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 19
This 1939 Berlin passport, stamped with a red "J," belonged to Wendy Oberlander's great-grandmother. The family's story is told in her film Still (Stille). Join us Oct 20. 2026, at 7 PM at the Dunbar Theatre. Thanks to @jewishfedbc.

Register: buff.ly/yfARSDl
The front cover of a German passport belonging to Johanna Anna Sara Jastrow, printed with “Deutsches Reich Reisepass” and the Nazi eagle emblem, with a large red “J” stamped on it marking her as Jewish. The first page of Johanna Anna Sara Jastrow’s German passport, with her full name, including “geb. Seligmann” (née Seligmann), handwritten above the passport title. The page is stamped with a red “J” marking her as Jewish, along with other official stamps and handwritten notes.
The inside pages of Johanna Anna Sara Jastrow’s 1939 passport, showing her identification photograph, signatures, and official stamps. Promotional graphic for a double feature screening, showing the covers of Wendy Oberlander’s films Nothing to be written here and Still (Stille) side by side, with a circle in the centre reading “Double Feature.”
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 17
Our Education & Engagement Manager joined @southsiders and @WhitecapsFC fans at Dublin Calling to share our free October 27, 2026 event, Holocaust Education in the Modern Stadium. All fans welcome!

Free Tickets: buff.ly/3Kmy75e
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 15
This $2 receipt (2019.048.069) is a trace of H. Peter Oberlander's life in a Canadian internment camp in 1941.

His story is explored in "Nothing to be written here." Join us for a double feature October 20, 2026 7 PM, at @DunbarTheatre.

Register: buff.ly/yfARSDl
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 15
Tonight, October 14, 2026, at 7 PM! Join us for our AGM, featuring Lise Kirchner’s talk “Teaching the Holocaust in a Digital Age,” on teaching the Holocaust to a generation shaped by digital media. There’s still time to register.

RSVP: buff.ly/ktRYKl8
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 13
Meet José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez, human rights lawyer and Academic Director of Mexico City's @MuseoMyT.

Join us October 27, 2026, for Holocaust Education in the Modern Stadium, with an intro from @WhitecapsFC.

RSVP: buff.ly/3Kmy75e
Headshot of José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 10
In 1936, Berlin hosted the Olympic football tournament. In 1938, Hugo Seemann, an Austrian Jew, was photographed in Shanghai with the first Jewish emigrant football team there. Holocaust Education in the Modern Stadium: October 27, 2026, 6 PM. Free. RSVP: buff.ly/3Kmy75e
Black-and-white photo taken through the goal net, showing players from Italy and Austria crowded in front of Italy’s goal during the 1936 Olympic football final in Berlin, with a packed stadium behind them. The German caption reads: “A snapshot through the net captures this lively scene in front of Italy’s goal in the football final, Italy versus Austria.”Black-and-white group photo of a football team in Shanghai, 1938. Players in striped jerseys stand and sit in three rows with a ball at their feet, alongside two men in street clothes. Hugo Seemann is pictured with the first Jewish emigrant football team in Shanghai.
Worn cover of the German album “Olympia 1936,” showing the opening ceremony in a crowded Berlin stadium, with a Nazi eagle and swastika emblem above the Olympic rings.Event poster for Holocaust Education in the Modern Stadium, showing a black-and-white photo of a football player kicking a red ball on a green pitch. Includes the date Tuesday, October 27, 6 PM, with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre logo and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC logo.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 9
Meet Daniel Lörcher, Vice President of @BVB and co-founder of what matters. He has spent years using football to confront antisemitism.

Join us October 27, 2026, for Holocaust Education in the Modern Stadium, with an intro from @WhitecapsFC.

RSVP: buff.ly/3Kmy75e
Headshot of Daniel Lörcher.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 8
Join us Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 7 PM for our AGM. After a first year of mandatory Holocaust education in BC, Lise Kirchner, Director of Education, will reflect on teaching the Holocaust to a digital generation. All are welcome.

RSVP: buff.ly/cSz0Cq9
Poster for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre's 2026 Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 7 PM.Lise Kirchner, Director of Education, speaking at a podium.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 7
Week 10: Righteous Among the Nations Medal
Yad Vashem awarded this medal to Jacob and Jeltje Oversloot, who hid Leo and Emmy Krell in the Netherlands. In translation: "Whosoever saves one life saves the universe entire."
View this artefact: buff.ly/8HU0pAc
Righteous Among the Nations medal featuring the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, with Hebrew and French inscriptions, housed in a rectangular wooden case lined with blue velvet fabric. Reverse of the medal depicting two hands clutching barbed wire rescue line wrapped around the globe, with Hebrew text inscribed around the image.
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Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre@theVHEC
Oct 7
Replying to @theVHEC
Loaned to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by Jacob Oversloot. L2015.012.001
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