Commemorative programming

Identifier: RA000-03-01
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Sub-series
Source: EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

36.5 cm of textual records7 photographs : prints3 DVD-Rs2 .mp4 files2 audio cassettes1 videocassette1 poster

Scope and Content

Sub-series is comprised of records documenting the programming of commemorative events organized annually by the VHEC. It is divided into four sub-sub-series by commemorative program: Kristallnacht, Yom HaShoah, High Holidays and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sub-series includes records from past commemorative programming activities organized by members of the VHCS.

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1. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (4)

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Kristallnacht
- Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
- RA000-03-01-01
- English
- 16 cm of textual records5 photographs : prints2 .mp4 files1 videocassette1 audio cassette
- Updated 5 years ago
Sub-sub-series consists of records generated and accumulated as a result of the VHEC’s organization of the Kristallnacht commemorative event in Vancouver, held annually in early November. Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” was a state-sponsored pogrom the night of November 9th, 1938; hundreds of synagogues in Germany and Austria were burned, Jewish-owned businesses were destroyed, nearly 100 Jews were killed and 30,000 men were sent to concentration camps. The mandate of the Kristallnacht Commemorative Program Committee was: to produce an informative, educational lecture that he...
Yom HaShoah
- Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
- RA000-03-01-02
- English
- 16 cm of textual records3 DVD-Rs2 photographs1 audio cassette1 poster
- Updated 5 years ago
Sub-sub series consists of records generated and accumulated as a result of the VHEC’s participation in and organization of events marking Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), observed in April or May each year on or around the 27th day of Nisan in order to mourn the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and to pay tribute to the Jewish resistance during that period. Yom HaShoah was first observed in Israel in 1951; it was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959 and is observed by Jewish commu...
High Holidays memorial service
- Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
- RA000-03-01-03
- English
- 3.5 cm of textual records
- Updated 5 years ago
Sub-sub-series is comprised of records created and kept by the VHCS and later, the VHEC, as a result of the organization of and participation in commemorative events held at the site of BC’s Holocaust Memorial, built by the VHCS’s Holocaust Memorial Committee and unveiled in 1987 at the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery in New Westminster. The memorial was intended to give members of the Jewish community a physical space to remember loved ones lost during the Holocaust, and to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten. The VHCS’s Cemetery Service Committee, and later, staff of the VHEC programmed an an...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
- RA000-03-01-04
- English
- 1 cm of textual records
- Updated 5 years ago
Sub-sub-series is comprised of records generated and accumulated as a result of the VHEC’s participation in and organization of events marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on or around January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7. It honours the memory of victims of the Holocaust and rejects Holocaust denial and condemns religious intolerance and persecution.Records in this sub-sub-series include programs, flyers, correspo...

Commemorative programming

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Kristallnacht

Yom HaShoah

High Holidays memorial service

International Holocaust Remembrance Day