For over 37 years, local Holocaust Survivors and 2nd Generation Voices have shared their stories with tens of thousands of high school students at Calgary Jewish Federation’s annual Holocaust Education Symposium in cooperation with Mount Royal University. Despite the difficulty in sharing their painful memories, brave Survivors have been recounting their unspeakable and complicated experiences while consistently leaving students with a message of hope for the future. Started in the mid-80’s as a response to Holocaust denial spread by an Alberta teacher, these stories are gifts that help us spread the concepts of acceptance, understanding and peace and stand as memorials to those who were silenced by the Holocaust. Symposium generally takes place during the 1st or 2nd week of May over the course of 3 days and is for students in grades 11 & 12, touching the lives of over 3,000 students and teachers per year. There is no cost associated with the program, although we do encourage attendees to complete a short survey to help us make our program better and to ensure that this program is of value to the community.