Sensitizing Students in the Public Education System to the Holocaust and Acts of Antisemitism
Purpose
The main purpose is to ensure that students, mainly from non-Jewish areas of the city, have a better understanding and appreciation about the Holocaust and the dangers of antisemitism. Our team of spiritual and community animators will take a lead role.
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What we are doing
The English Montreal School Board is pleased to be facilitating a Holocaust Education Program.
For the 2022-23 academic year, this project was funded via a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal.
Activities focused on sensitizing students and staff to the history of the Holocaust and acts of Antisemitism via special guests, lectures and visits to the Montreal Holocaust Museum and different exhibits and programming in the community.
The EMSB looks forward to working with the following organizations: The Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the Foundation for Genocide Education, B’nai Brith Canada and our team of teachers and spiritual and community animators.
ABOUT US
What we are doing
The English Montreal School Board is pleased to share the news that we have received a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal, to be used for the 2022-23 academic year.
Plans call for us to sensitize students and staff to the history of the Holocaust and acts of Antisemitism via special guests, lectures and visits to the Montreal Holocaust Museum and different exhibits and programming in the community.
The EMSB looks forward to working with the following organizations: The Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the Foundation for Genocide Education, B’nai Brith Canada and our team of teachers and spiritual and community animators.
PURPOSE
How Will It Create Positive Change?
We can see through programming done in the past the kind of impact something organized and with the proper funding can achieve. When our students move on to CEGEP and university and there is a campaign coordinated by the many antisemitic groups on campus, these students will be among our ambassadors for tolerance and understanding.
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