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Address: Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 2639 6660
Fax: +49 30 2639 6649
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Website: https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Kathrin Meyer, Executive Secretary; Lennart Aldick, Deputy Executive Secretary
Principal Staff Members:
Laura Robertson, Communication Officer
Rosvita Krajinovic, Program Officer
Julana Bredtmann, Program Officer

Year Established: 1998
Staff: Salaried - 5

Type of Organization or Mission: The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance unites governments and experts to strengthen, advance, and promote Holocaust education, remembrance, and research worldwide and to uphold the commitments of the 2000 Stockholm Declaration.

Services: The IHRA funds multi-lateral, sustainable projects, influences public-policy making, develops research focusing on lesser known aspects of the Holocaust, and shares best practices across its member countries, observer countries and beyond.  The IHRA website offers individual country web-pages, with regular updates on Holocaust-related issues in all 33 member states. The website also provides resources, hosts an online directory of Holocaust organizations, as well as information on IHRA-funded projects, and news items related to the IHRA.

Address: International Center on Nazi Persecution
Grosse Allee 5-9
Bad Arolsen 34454
Germany
Phone: +49 5691 629-0
Fax: +49 5691 629-501
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Website: https://arolsen-archives.org/en/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Floriane Azoulay, Director

Year Established: The ITS’ predecessors were established in 1943 (UNRRA); On July 1, 1947, the IRO (International Refugee Organization) took over the Central Tracing Bureau, giving it the new name “International Tracing Service” (ITS) on January 1, 1948. The ICRC management since 1955, withdrew at the end of 2012.

Type of Organization or Mission: To assist victim’s families and survivors and their families. To preserve its documents. To carry out and support research and education, take up the legacy of those persecuted and the survivors of the Holocaust, forced labor and persecution. To promote values such as human rights and to combat antisemitism and racism.

Media: Contact the Communications Department, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Address: 114, boulevard de Magenta
Paris 75010
France 
Phone: +33 1 42 88 04 39
Fax: + 33 1 42 88 17 63
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Website: https://www.yiu.ngo/en
Facebook: www.facebook.com/yahadinunum

Director/Person-in-Charge: Patrick Desbois, President
Principal Staff Members:
Marco Gonzales, Director
Patrice Bensimon, Director of Research Center
Emmanuel Cortey, Deputy Director

Year Established: 2004

Type of Organization or Mission: An organization established by Father Patrick Desbois dedicated to systematically identifying and documenting the sites of Jewish mass executions by Nazi mobile-killing units in Eastern Europe during world war II. The objective of this work is to: 1) substantiate a “Holocaust by Bullets,” in addition to those Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps, 2) provide evidence of such mass executions to answer Holocaust deniers, 3) give proper respect to the victims’ burial places and enable their preservation, and 4) disseminate and help apply the universal lessons about genocide derived from the work of YIU.

Services: Resource center; Video testimonies (available for consultation at Yahad’s Research Center and online upon request; Photographs of execution sites of Jewish and roam victims, Soviet POWs and other victims killed by the Nazis and their allies in Eastern Europe; photographs of former ghettos, camps of Jewish prisoners, camps of Soviet POEs; Archives (Soviet, German, Romanian, Polish…) about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; Development of tool kits to teach the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; Seminars and public lectures; National and international conferences; Teacher training workshops; Exhibitions of photography and video recorded testimonies documenting the process and results of Yahad’s research trips in Eastern Europe.

Media: https://www.yahadmap.org/#map/ (Interactive map of execution sites of Jewish victims)

Address: Principova alej 304
411 55 Terezin
Czech Republic
Phone: +420-416-78225
Fax: +420 416 782 245
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Website: https://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TerezinMemorial

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Jan Roubinek

Year Established: 1947

Type of Organization or Mission: Memorial museum

Services: Guided tours; Permanent and temporary exhibits; Archives and library services; Educational activities; Research

Publications: Periodicals: annual report, newsletter, Terezin Pages

Address: #50-950 West 41st Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 2N7
Canada
Phone: 604-264-0499
Fax: 604-264-0497
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Website: https://www.vhec.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theVHEC/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theVHEC

Director/Person-in-Charge: Nina Krieger, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Lise Kirchner, Director of Education
Caitlin Donaldson, Associate Director of Collections & Exhibitions
Chase Nelson, Archivist
Jill Pineau, Librarian
Hannah Marazzi, Director of Communications and Special Projects
Abby Wener Herlin, Associate Director of Programs
Talia Mastai, Associate Managing Director
Ellie Lawson, Education Coordinator 

Year Established: 1983 (Education Centre opened in 1994)
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 75

Type of Organization or Mission:  Through education and remembrance, the VHEC engages students, educators and the broader public in British Columbia and beyond with the history of the Holocaust — the Shoah — and its ongoing relevance. The Centre stewards Western Canada’s largest collection of Holocaust-related artefacts, Holocaust testimonies and archival documents. It also holds a comprehensive library of books, films, educational resources, as well as rare books and special collections

Services: Thematic and online Exhibitions; Holocaust survivor speakers; Collections – including audio-visual testimony, library and archives; Educational programs and workshops; Curriculum development; Teachers’ conferences and resources; District high school symposia; Docent led tours; Publishing; Survivors’ services; Survivor, child survivor and second-generation groups; Community-wide commemorative events.

Publications: Newsletter Zachor, Teachers’ guides; Audio-visual testimonies; Monographs and memoirs

Address: 4588 Bathurst St.
Toronto, Ontario, M2R 1W6
Canada
Phone: 416-631-5689
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Website: https://torontoholocaustmuseum.org/

Director/Persons-in-Charge:
Dara Solomon, Executive Director 
Toby Abramsky, Chair

Principal Staff Members:
Rachel Libman, Chief Curator
Michelle Fishman, Director of Marketing and Communications
Carrie Swartz, Director of Museum Experience

Year Established: New museum opened in 2023; originally founded in 1985

Type of Organization or Mission: The Toronto Holocaust Museum inspires visitors to think deeply about the tragedies of the Holocaust and make connections between this history, world events, and contemporary Canadian life.

Services: Public programs; Exhibitions; Film lecture series; Survivor speakers; Holocaust Education Week; Commemorations; Teacher training and resources; Holocaust education courses; Museum tours; Survivor programs; and Interfaith dialogue.

Address: 5151 Cote Ste. Catherine Road
Montreal, Quebec, H3W 1M6
Canada
Phone: 514-345-2605
Fax: 514-344-2651
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Website: https://museeholocauste.ca/en/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mus%C3A9e-de-lHolocauste-Montr%C3A9al-78382729139
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuseeHolocauste
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/museeholocauste/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Daniel Amar, Executive Director

Year Established: 1979                  
Staff: Salaried - 12; Volunteer - 175

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://museeholocauste.ca/en/general-information/

Type of Organization: Educational resource center and museum

Mission: The Montreal Holocaust Museum educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitising the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference. Through its Museum, its commemorative programs and educational initiatives, the Montreal Holocaust Museum promotes respect for diversity and the sanctity of human life.

Services: Guided tours and survivor testimonies (on request); Collection of 13,146 artifacts and documents and 838 digitized video testimonies. Commemorative services and events. Speakers' bureau. Development of educational tools for use in schools or as pre- and post-museum visit activities on Holocaust history and Human rights issues, in English and French. Teacher training on Holocaust and human rights education. Public education events. Research and partnership with universities. Outreach and partnership with nonprofit organizations working on human rights issues. Virtual and travelling exhibitions.

Online Exhibits: Building New Lives: http://refairesavie.museeholocauste.ca/eng; United Against Genocide: Understand, Question, Prevent: http://genocide.mhmc.ca/en/; Holocaust Life Stories: http://holocaustlifestories.ca/

Address: 4600 Bathurst St., Suite 220
Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V3
Canada
Phone: 416-398-6931
Fax: 416-636-9897
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Website: https://www.marchofthelivingcanada.org/; http://www.marchofremembranceandhope.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Eli Rubenstein
Principal Staff Members:
Michael Soberman
Sherri Ettedgui
Alana Saxe

Year Established: 1988 and 2001
Staff: Salaried - 4; Volunteer  3

Type of Organization or Mission:
March of the Living: National organization dedicated to teaching Canadian Jewish youth the Jewish and universal lessons of the Holocaust through a trip to Poland and Israel with Holocaust survivors. Other goals relate to preservation of Holocaust survivor testimony, strengthening of Jewish identity, heightening connection to Israel, learning about other genocides, combatting racism, antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

March of Remembrance and Hope: National organization dedicated to teaching Canadian university students the universal lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides through a trip to Germany and Poland with Holocaust survivors.

Services: Overseas programs for survivors, students, adults and young adults; Videotaping of programs and survivor testimony on location; Publication of selected student impressions; Speaker’s bureau

Publications: For You Who Died I Must Live On; Education curricula; Reflections on the March of the Living; Voice of Hope

Media: Songs for the March of the Living (CD); Holocaust survivor testimonies; YouTube segments on various themes related to Holocaust survivors

Address: 22 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 202
Toronto, Ontario M4T 2S3
Canada
Phone: 416-322-5928
Fax: 416-322-5930
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Website:https://azrielifoundation.org/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AzrieliMemoirs 
Twitter: twitter.com/AzrieliMemoirs 

Director/Person-in-Charge: Naomi Azrieli, Chair and CEO
Principal Staff Members: 
Jody Spiegel, Director, Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Arielle Berger, Managing Editor

Year Established: The Azrilei Foundation 1989; Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program 2005
Staff: Salaried - 8

Type of Organization or Mission: The Holocaust Survivor Memoir Program was established by the Azrieli Foundation to collect, preserve and share the memoirs and diaries written by survivors of the twentieth-century Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe who later made their way to Canada. The program is guided by the conviction that such stories play an important role in education about tolerance and diversity.

Services: Collecting, archiving, publishing and distributing memoirs and diaries; Teaching workshops

Publications: The Azrieli Series Holocaust Survivor Memoirs

Address: Pfeilgasse 8/15
1080 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 4090 971
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Website: https://www.centropa.org/en; https://www.centropa.org/hu

Director/Person-in-Charge: Edward Serotta, Director
Principal Staff Members:
Eszter Andor and Dora Sardi, Co-Directors of historical projects (based in Budapest)
Anka Grupinska, Director, Polish (based in Warsaw)
Ildiko Molnar, Director, Romanian Projects
Michael Miller, Historical Advisor (Central Europe University in Budapest)

Year Established: 2000

Type of Organization or Mission: The signature project is Witness to a Jewish Century. Approximately 1200 elderly Jews still living in Central and Eastern Europe are being interviewed (560 already completed.) The methodology is to get a 10-12 hour audio taped interview, which is then transcribed, edited and translated resulting in an autobiography for each individual. The project is also collecting thousands of family photographs with the respondents’ narratives about them. The result of the process will be books, films, exhibitions and educational materials telling the story of Jewish
life in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. 

Services: Holocaust and historical museums, archivists, historians and libraries are welcome to use the material (biographies in both English or original language, as well as photos) either directly from the website of by contacting the offices in Vienna or Budapest. Centro will also assist Holocaust organizations by sending teams to specific towns and cities to conduct interviews on their behalf.