New funding for Holocaust education

March 28, 2025

Miriam Libicki (centre), Rose Lipszyc (centre) and Mark Celinscak sit on the couch at Rose's Vancouver home. The coffee table is strewn with photographs. — Artist Miriam Libicki (right), Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc (centre), and research cluster co-lead Mark Celinscak meet at Rose's home in Toronto, Ontario in summer 2023 as part of the work on the forthcoming graphic novel, Two Roses (New Jewish Press, 2026). Credit: Chorong Kim.

Charlotte Schallié (SLLC, Germanic Studies) and her team have been awarded Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program National Holocaust Remembrance Program funding ($129,769) from Heritage Canada for their project, Developing Trauma-Informed Teaching Resources and Outreach Activities for Arts-Based Survivor Testimonies.

This project will develop open-access educational resources, learning activities, and an art exhibition to accompany two non-fiction graphic novels by award-winning artist Miriam Libicki: A Kind of Resistance (published in the anthology But I Live, New Jewish Press, 2022) and Two Roses (New Jewish Press, 2026).

*An excerpt from* Two Roses *(New Jewish Press, 2026), the story of Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, drawn by artist Miriam Libicki.*

The new funding from Heritage Canada will enable the project to create innovative, evidence-based educational tools to help Canadian high school teachers apply a human rights framework and integrate Holocaust education into the secondary school curriculum.

Partners include the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Toronto Holocaust Museum, Facing History and Ourselves, the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, the Azrieli Foundation, UBC, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Contact

Jennifer Sauter, Survivor Centred Visual Narratives Project Manager: pmvisual@uvic.ca

Charlotte Schallié, Survivor Centred Visual Narratives Project Lead & Co-Director: schallie@uvic.ca