Resources for the Classroom
Resources for the Classroom
EXHIBITS
Available in French
The Sustaining Memories Project online exhibition highlights the diverse experiences of ninety-five survivors through excerpts of their partner-written memoirs. Sustaining Memories was created to give interested survivors of the Holocaust the opportunity to “write” their memoirs alongside a writing partner and was created in 2011 in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University (then Ryerson University). The online exhibition brings these incredible stories to the public for the first time. Available in English only.
Education Disrupted explores the role of education in the lives of those who experienced the Holocaust as children and youth. It looks at the school life of Jewish students, the significance of being denied an education, and how Jews resisted persecution and pursued an education during the Holocaust. The exhibit also highlights the value of education and the role it played for survivors who were rebuilding their lives after the war.
Four Stories from the Warsaw Ghetto shows how four survivors — Pinchas Gutter, Arthur Ney, Amek Adler and Elsa Thon — endured death and destruction in the largest Nazi ghetto. Although it is impossible to completely convey the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, with so many thousands of stories that will never be told, this exhibit explores the daily struggle to stay alive and the different types of resistance taking place, while also commemorating the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were murdered.
Liberating Our Stories presents first-hand accounts of the moment of liberation for five sur- vivors. For many, freedom from the Nazi occupation did not mean being free from suffering and antisemitism. Survivors often had difficulty leaving their painful pasts behind, and some remained silent about what they had experienced. Yet their moments of liberation were the beginning of another story. As they restarted their lives after the war, these five survivors gained a new sense of freedom through opening up about what they had experienced.
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