By Marion Silver and Phil Emberley The Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) was established in 2015 as a community-based volunteer organization to address the growing need for Holocaust Education, given the rise of antisemitism within Ottawa and around … Continued
November 13th – 14th, 2023, 2 sessions each day at 8:15am and12:30pm The workshop will provide education resources required for the new Grade 6 Social Studies Holocaust Curriculum. It will be presented in cooperation with the Azrieli Foundation, Yad Vashem … Continued
(Front row, L to R): Kenra Mroz, Marilyn Sinclair, Sedda Antekelian, Mina Cohn, and Lesly Culp (Back row, L to R): Artur Wilczynski and Ellen Bertrand As mentioned in Words from the Chair, Mina Cohn and Marilyn Sinclair, founder of … Continued
With the start of the 2023-2024 school year comes the implementation in Ontario classrooms of the Grade 6 curriculum changes discussed above. Among the resources CHES is developing to assist teachers in their classrooms is a webpage full of educational … Continued
Avi Posen By Minda Chaikin Concerned about antisemitism rising in Ontario schools, the provincial government is taking action to combat its spread. CHES is proud to be a part of this action and, at the invitation of Ontario’s Ministry of … Continued
By Mary Jane Farrish It was my deep honour to have joined nine colleagues from southern Ontario on a Holocaust Education in Germany study trip in Berlin during the first week of July. I am indebted to Mina Cohn and … Continued
By Marilyn Sinclair In 2021, Liberation75 was invited by the USC Shoah Foundation to pursue an important mission: Find 150 Canadian Holocaust survivors and record their testimonies. We are proud to announce that we have achieved this goal thanks to … Continued
Speakers at the Through Their Eyes Back to School event were (L to R): Phil Emberley, Artur Wilczynski, Kenra Mroz, and Mina Cohn. By Kara Goodwin Educational and inspiring are the best words to describe the second meeting of the … Continued
CHES Through Their Eyes Program By Phil Emberley and Marion Silver Antisemitism is a pervasive force locally, nationally, and internationally; it is manifested by hateful speech and acts of animosity with increasing frequency. At the same time, there is an … Continued
October 6th, 2023, 9:00 am November 15th, 2023, 8:00 am and 11:00 am Avi Posen will join the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) again this year, but this time in person. His new educational initiative is based on … Continued