Monday, January 27 | 7:00-8:30pm.
This is a virtual event featuring Kasim Hafeez who will discuss indoctrination, looking at both the Holocaust and his personal experiences.
Upcoming Events
Monday, January 27 | 7:00-8:30pm.
This is a virtual event featuring Kasim Hafeez who will discuss indoctrination, looking at both the Holocaust and his personal experiences.
Education Programs and Services
Calgary Jewish Federation’s Holocaust and Human Rights: Remembrance and Education department offers a variety of education programs to schools in Calgary and surrounding area. With options for both in-person and virtual learning, we provide dynamic opportunities to increase student knowledge about Holocaust history and antisemitism today. We also empower teachers to identify and respond to antisemitism in schools. Many of the programs listed in this brochure can be modified to fit unique classroom needs. All programs, with the exception of those offered virtually from Yad Vashem, are free.
(Classroom / Boardroom Presentation)
Holocaust Series for Teens: Tour of Yad Vashem for Teens
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education. Explore the history of the Holocaust with one of Yad Vashem’s expert guides on a one-of-a-kind virtual tour of the Holocaust History Museum. Suitable for teens ages 15 to 18 years.
Holocaust Series for Teens: Last Letters
Virtual, interactive program to review the final letters sent from Holocaust victims to their loved ones. Each archival letter and postcard reveals the inner world and fate of Jews in the Holocaust. For many recipients, these were the last greetings from the home and people they left behind. Suitable for teens ages 15 to 18 years.
Holocaust Series for Teens: How was it Humanly Possible?
Human choice and human-made circumstances led to the murder of six million Jews and millions of others. This virtual interactive program looks at both the historical discipline and moral concern regarding the perpetrators and bystanders of the Holocaust. Suitable for ages 15 to 18 years.
The Auschwitz Album
Through photographs, actual letters from prisoners, to survivor testimony, this virtual presentation gives participants an important piece of visual documentation of the workings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Participants will have the unique opportunity to explore Auschwitz, depicting the arrival and selection, and what it really meant to be a prisoner inside the camp. This program also includes a pre-recorded tour of Auschwitz Block 27 (the Jewish block).
Calgary Jewish Federation has access to a number of full and partial video testimony from survivors in and connected to our community. In 2022, we also produced a series of videos: Through Their Eyes in partnership with the government of Alberta, featuring testimony from survivors and their descendants. Access the database and submit video requests.
Study of the Holocaust underlines that genocide is a process which can be challenged or perhaps stopped rather than a spontaneous or inevitable event. The Holocaust demonstrated how a nation can utilize its bureaucratic structures, processes, and technical expertise while enlisting multiple segments of society to implement policies over time ranging from exclusion and discrimination to genocide. For those interested in award-winning, easy-to-follow curriculum and lesson plans on the Holocaust, we invite you to visit Echos and Reflections.
For our recommended Holocaust Books Reading List, click here.