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đź“Ł Calling all classroom teachers!Join us this summer to explore exciting PD opportunities and expand your learning for t...
05/29/2026

đź“Ł Calling all classroom teachers!

Join us this summer to explore exciting PD opportunities and expand your learning for the 2026–2027 school year. ✨

To learn more and register, visit this link đź”— https://torontoholocaustmuseum.org/events.

05/26/2026

Online misinformation is designed to hook you — to keep you angry, engaged and coming back. So just like other addictive products, we’re labelling it. Social media gets the warning labels it needs: .

Hate Tags intercepts hate and misinformation before you see it, giving you the chance to pause and think critically.

Learn more at www.hatetags.com .

🏛️ What History Teaches📅 June 8🕰️ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 🔗 Link belowJoin us for a live webinar, in partnership with the Ala...
05/25/2026

🏛️ What History Teaches
đź“… June 8
🕰️ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
đź”— Link below

Join us for a live webinar, in partnership with the Alabama Holocaust Education Center, as part of their “What History Teaches” series.

In this webinar, Professor Marci Shore, an historian of totalitarianism and expert in the intellectual history of twentieth-and twenty-first-century Central and Eastern Europe, will examine Eastern Europe as a crucial site of atrocity, complicity, and resistance during the Second World War.

Register here and tune in to this FREE program at this link đź”— https://torontoholocaustmuseum.org/events/what-history-teaches-webinar

Check out “Shared Memory: The Holocaust in Popular Art” - a thought-provoking panel discussion co-presented by TJFF and ...
05/21/2026

Check out “Shared Memory: The Holocaust in Popular Art” - a thought-provoking panel discussion co-presented by TJFF and the THM as part of this year’s festival line-up.

Join us for this panel conversation with TJFF 2026 Artist-in-Residence, Michel Kichka, author of the graphic novel, “Second Generation: The Things I Didn’t Tell My Father”; Michal Kosakowski, director of “Holofiction” and Bernice Eisenstein, author of “I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors,” and explore how the Holocaust is conveyed through popular visual art forms, and how this contributes to the way Holocaust memory is communicated today.

Get your tickets at this link đź”— torontoholocaustmuseum.org/shared-memory-the-holocaust-in-popular-art

There’s something especially powerful about what can happen when communities come together with a shared purpose. The TH...
05/21/2026

There’s something especially powerful about what can happen when communities come together with a shared purpose. The THM is thrilled to shine a light on these partnerships and highlight a long-lasting one with the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation (TJFF).

This June, we’re proud to partner with TJFF to present three incredible films at this year’s Toronto Jewish Film Festival, in which we will explore Holocaust memory, storytelling, and representation through film, art, and conversation. These films invite audiences to reflect on how Holocaust history continues to be remembered, interpreted, and shared across generations and mediums.

We are deeply grateful to TJFF for this meaningful partnership and for helping bring important conversations and diverse voices to our community through their programming.

Scroll through and learn more about this year’s THM x TJFF partner screenings and get your tickets now at this link 🔗 https://tjff.com/

With the exciting growth of our social media community, we want to reaffirm the values that shape our space. Our social ...
05/20/2026

With the exciting growth of our social media community, we want to reaffirm the values that shape our space. Our social media channels are an extension of the Toronto Holocaust Museum’s (THM) educational mission, and we want to outline the principles that guide engagement in our space.

The THM supports and encourages respectful, thoughtful dialogue about the history of the Holocaust, its ongoing relevance, and its legacy today.

As an educational institution, we are committed to fostering conversations that deepen understanding, encourage critical reflection, and strengthen civil society.

We believe museums have an important role to play in promoting empathy, countering hate and bigotry, and creating space for meaningful learning — even when engaging with difficult histories and challenging topics.

We are a safe space for all those who wish to learn about and better understand this vital history and its relevance today.

We do not support dialogue that is offensive, hateful, discriminatory, unrelated to our work, or disrespectful toward any people, place, or culture.

Our social media channels — including comments and direct messages — are extensions of our educational space, and we ask all who engage with us to do so in a spirit of respect and constructive dialogue.

If you value learning, understanding, and respectful engagement, you are welcome here.

05/20/2026

Holocaust survivor Susan Greening had a dream. "Let kindness and compassion be your way of life. Ethics and morals will be peoples' personal laws, we won't need any laws."

Will you help make Susan's dreams a reality?

Yesterday was International Museum Day. Museums help us make sense of history—and each other. This year’s theme, “Museum...
05/19/2026

Yesterday was International Museum Day.

Museums help us make sense of history—and each other. This year’s theme, “Museums: Uniting a Divided World,” speaks directly to that responsibility.

In a time shaped by misinformation, our work is more important than ever. At the Toronto Holocaust Museum, this work lives through education and interactive testimony stations that invite visitors into deeper engagement with history and its meaning today.

At its core, museums are about connection: memory and dialogue, past and present, individuals and communities.

At the THM, we remain committed to being a trusted space for these histories—and the voices that carry them forward.

On May 13, 1939, the MS St. Louis left Hamburg carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing N**i persecution, hoping t...
05/13/2026

On May 13, 1939, the MS St. Louis left Hamburg carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing N**i persecution, hoping to reach safety in Cuba, and through there immigrate to the United States.

Denied entry into Havana and refused by the United States, the MS St. Louis was forced to turn back toward Europe after failing to find a country willing to accept its passengers. In line with its restrictive immigration policies at the time, Canada also refused entry to the ship and those aboard. Several countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom, later accepted some of the passengers. Many of those who returned to Europe were later murdered in the Holocaust.

The voyage of the MS St. Louis is a powerful reminder of how difficult it was for Jewish refugees to find safety—and the tragic consequences of those who were forced to return to Europe.

Explore more about the story of the MS St. Louis in the THM’s Persecution gallery, on our “Meanwhile in Canada” panel.

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