Education

We help you teach the Holocaust. Whether you’ve been teaching the subject for years or are incorporating it into your lessons for the first time, we provide the tools and support you need.

We believe in the power of engaging directly with the voices of Holocaust survivors. Not only do we distribute our memoirs free of charge to teachers and students, we also provide expertly designed classroom activities that foster deep learning experiences. Our digital resource and in-school presentations by survivor authors offer students new ways to connect with the stories of Holocaust survivors and understand this complex topic.

The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program staff is available to work with educators across the country who are interested in using survivor memoirs to teach their students about the Holocaust. Our educational resources and programming are free of charge and are available in both French and English.

Order Memoirs

See a complete listing of our titles and order books. Books, including ebooks and PDFs, are free of charge for Canadian students, school and university libraries, educators, post-secondary instructors and academic researchers.

Order our memoirs

Educators’ Catalogue

View our Educators’ Catalogue to learn more about our resources.

View our catalogue

Re:Collection

Delve deeper into the lives of survivors through rare interview footage, memoir excerpts, photographs, artifacts and an interactive timeline and map on our digital resource.

Experience Re:Collection

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

Download Education Programs and activities based on our survivors’ stories.

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EDUCATOR TOOLS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Find the resources you need to teach students about the Holocaust.

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SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS

Upon completion of an Education Program or activity, engage students through a virtual school presentation with a Holocaust survivor author.

Schedule a school presentation

Academic Conferences

Learn more about our academic conferences for post-secondary students and professors.

Learn more

Short Films

Our short films offer portraits of our authors and the unique nature of their stories.

View our films

Educational Philosophy

Our approach to Holocaust education emphasizes the importance of the individual story and is based on a few key principles.

Miss our webinar?

Join Jody Spiegel from the Azrieli’s Holocaust Survivor Memoir Program and incoming Chair of IHRA’s Education Working Group, Facing History and Ourselves’ Leora Schaefer, and Neuberger’s Dr. Carson Phillips for a special behind-the-scenes “shop-talk”. With an introduction from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jennifer Ciardelli who chaired the IHRA committee that developed the IHRA recommendations. Moderated by Dara Solomon from the Neuberger.

Watch it here