Center commémoratif de l'Holocauste in Montréal

The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center / Center commémoratif de l'Holocauste à Montréal is a museum in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1979 by a group of Holocaust survivors around Steve Cummings . The MHMC consists of the museum and the center.

The museum is dedicated to the Holocaust and awareness about the events during the Nazi era. People of all ages are to be informed about the genocide of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their allies between 1939 and 1945. The audience should also be made aware of the dangers of anti-Semitism, fanaticism and hatred, and respect for diversity and the inviolability of human dignity should be promoted.

The MHMC gives the survivors of the Holocaust the opportunity to pass on their experiences to future generations. Thanks to the Remembrance Committee, the contemporary witnesses also have a direct say in the decision-making structure of the center.

The MHMC, which opened in 1979, was completely redesigned and renovated when it reopened on June 30, 2003. It is the first notable Holocaust museum in Canada and also highlights Montréal's role as home to the world's third largest population of Holocaust survivors.

In the first year since opening, the new Holocaust Museum welcomed more than 15,000 visitors, 10,000 of them students, 65% of them schoolchildren and students.

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content

The museum includes 418 artifacts, 372 photographs and 18 video stations. The museum, which is bilingual in French and English, tries to do justice to the topic with a broad horizon.

exhibition

The museum's exhibition space now extends over two levels to around 10,000 m².

In addition to the Holocaust, chronological insights into Jewish life before the Holocaust are given, starting from the upper floor .

In the basement, the historical background and the reasons that led to the outbreak of World War II and the attempted complete systematic extermination of Judaism are explained .

The tour continues on the upper floor and leads thematically over the post-war period to the settlement of many European survivors of the Holocaust in Montréal . After the Second World War, Montréal had the largest survivor community after Israel and New York City .

deals

In addition to the museum, the center is responsible for a number of other initiatives. It thus acts as the patron of a number of Holocaust-related events and projects. In addition to the annual memorial event for the victims of the Holocaust " Yom Hashoah " and another event in memory of the Reichskristallnacht , called "Commémoration de Kristallnacht", the "Holocaust Education Series", a series of lectures and Holocaust-related work and a "Bar / Bat Mitzvah in remembrance" project organized. In addition, an extraordinary exhibition with pictures from the Theresienstadt concentration camp was organized this year .

On Yom Hashoah , the official day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, more than 2000 people accept the invitation to the memorial service organized by the MHMC. In 2004 the celebration took place on April 18, 2004 at the Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem Synagogue in Montréal.

Partner projects

The Montréal Holocaust Memorial Center works with the CMA (Canadian Museums Association), the CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network) and the Virtual Museum of Canada . It is an institution of the Federation CJA , a network of Canadian organizations that aim to support Jews in need.

The Austrian Memorial Service has been supporting the MHMC since 1998 by sending memorial servants.

Over the years, the memorial servants have developed a specific area of responsibility and have become an integral part of the MHMC team.

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