Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship
2A49 Patterson Hall, 1125 Colonel By Drive K1S5B6 Ottawa, ON, Canada

Robert Rinder traces unimaginabl trauma of Holocaust survivors for BBC new series.

80 years ago, #OnThisDay 16 November 1940, the Warsaw ghetto was sealed with 380,000 Jews trapped inside. Surrounded by walls that they built with their own ha...nds under strict and violent guard, the Jews of Warsaw were now cut off from the outside world. The living conditions were unbearable, and the ghetto was extremely overcrowded. On average, between 6-7 people lived in one room and the daily food rations were the equivalent of one-tenth of the required minimum daily calorie intake. After the ghetto was sealed, masses of Jewish refugees were continuously transported to Warsaw bringing the ghetto population up to 450,000. Over 80,000 Jews died as a result of the appalling conditions, overcrowding and starvation. Additionally, over 250,000 Jews were deported to the Treblinka death camp from the Warsaw ghetto. Nonetheless, the walls of the ghetto could not silence the cultural activity of its inhabitants. Despite the appalling living conditions in the ghetto, artists and intellectuals continued their creative endeavors. Learn more about the Warsaw ghetto and its history on our "About the Holocaust" section online, including photos, artifacts, documents, and survivor testimony from the ghetto https://bit.ly/3kBZUMq

November 18, 7:00pm Relations, Resistance, Resilience: A workshop presentation of rare books and Holocaust-era artifacts from 3 centuries of Christian-Jewish relations.... To attend, email [email protected] to get the Zoom link and passcode. Join the Montreal Holocaust Museum and the Jewish Public Library for a presentation of rare books and objects from their collections. These historic artifacts chronicle over 350 years of the complex connections and disconnections between the Jewish and Christian communities of Europe.

Do not miss our webinar on Sunday November 15th at 1:00 pm. Join us for the launch of the virtual Museum with 24 artifacts submitted by local survivors and their families. An interesting program about the Importance of Artifacts to the research of the Holocaut with guest speakers Shara Shor from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and Dr Robert Ehrenreich from the USHMM. Registration required in advance for this webinar:... https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zf5ak1g5S9i66frjyXf2Lg See more