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Title:
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre’s Increasing Access to Holocaust Symposia and Events Project
Agreement Number:
1920-0888
Agreement Value:
$8,102.00
Agreement Date:
Apr 8, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
Description:
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) will facilitate access to archival holdings related to a 35-year history of organizing public events and educational symposia related to its mandate and to Holocaust commemoration. The VHEC has a mandate to collect, preserve and make accessible documentary heritage that supports the organization in its efforts to promote social justice, human rights and genocide awareness. The VHEC will process records related to its annual educational symposium, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah and Kristallnacht anniversary events, and the High Holidays cemetery service. These records include research and curatorial files, audio-video recordings, multi-media content, design files, plans, photographs, correspondence, and finance-related files. Specifically, the organization will arrange, describe and create a finding aid for event records, and then publish them online to make them accessible and searchable for educators, students, community members and researchers.
Organization:
Library and Archives Canada
Expected Results:

Results for this project include the creation of an event records series, including symposia, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kristallnacht Commemorative lecture, Yom HaShoah, High Holidays Cemetery services, Biennial Shafran Teacher’s Conference and other special events. In addition, the organization will process and catalogue all records within the series and identify sub-series; house records according to archival best practices; create a finding aid and publish it over multiple platforms; digitize selected records for increased access online and in-house; and digitally preserve selected born-digital records.

Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V5Z 2N7
Reference Number:
129-2019-2020-Q1-00045
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Program:
Documentary Heritage Communities Program
Program Purpose:

The Documentary Heritage Communities Program supports the development of Canada's local archival and library communities by increasing their capacity to preserve, provide access to and promote local documentary heritage.