Events are listed in chronological order in vertical columns. Federation events are listed in the right hand column. 

CHES: Holocaust Education Month Launch Event

Topic: "Holocaust Education in a World of Turmoil: What We Need to Learn and What We Need to Relearn."
Date: Monday, November 10, 2025

Time: 7 pm

Location: will be shared upon registration

CHES is pleased to announce that renowned historian and professor of Holocaust Education, Michael Berenbaum, will return to Ottawa as the keynote speaker. Professor Berenbaum is an American scholar, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker.  Registration required
 

Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University
Author Jan Grabowsky book launch
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Time: 7 pm
Location: In person and on Zoom. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St. W.
"Whitewash: Poland and the Jews" with author Jan Grabowski
Registration required

CHES and the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society​: 

Title: "A Holocaust Testimonial: My Father’s Story"

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Time: 7 pm

Location: Zoom

Join us for an evening in which 2ndG descendant Phil Emberley will virtually present his father’s story of surviving Kristallnacht and then his evacuation on the Kindertransport. 

Registration required

CHES
Title: How a Forgotten Archive Led to a Discovered Family History

Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025

Time: 2 - 4 pm

Location: will be shared upon registration

Join us and Prof. Timothy Taylor, best-selling and award-winning Canadian author, to discuss his journey of remembrance and commemoration. Timothy will share his family’s experiences of persecution, death, exile, and survival under the Nazis, giving voice to the silence and making sure his mother and grandparents are properly commemorated. Open only to Holocaust descendants. Registration required
 

Jewish Federation of Ottawa
Exhibit: "A Thousand Kisses: Stories of the Kindertransport" 
Date: November 23 to 26 during regular hours 
Location: Soloway JCC, 21 Nadolny Sachs Pvt. 
This 10-panel traveling exhibit explores the experiences of children rescued through the Kindertransport, who fled Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1940. During this time, the British government admitted 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children as refugees from escalating Nazi persecution. The exhibit highlights the efforts of communal organizations and individuals who provided foster homes and support. It also explores the difficulties faced by the children’s parents, who struggled to gain admission and the post-war effort by Kindertransport survivors to locate their families, many of whom were murdered by the Nazis.  
Created by the Wiener Holocaust Library, London and printed with support of the British High Commission Ottawa. No registration.
For more information please contact Amos Bitzan at [email protected]

Shul members can also see the exhibit:

Machzikei Hadas: Monday, November 3 to Thursday, November 6
Beit Tikvah: Monday, November 10 to Thursday, November 13
Ottawa Torah Centre: Monday, November 17 to Thursday, November 20

ONGOING VIRTUAL EXHIBITS

Witnessess to History, Keepers of Memory: Portraits of Montreal’s Holocaust Survivors 
To celebrate the exceptional contribution of these witnesses to history and keepers of memory, a photography project was launched in 2019. The Museum’s Commemoration and Oral History Coordinator, Eszter Andor, and Photographer Stéphanie Cousineau were given the mission to meet with thirty survivors in the privacy of their own homes.
Host: Montreal Holocaust Museum
https://witnessestohistory.museeholocauste.ca/

Ports of Exile, Home Harbours: Elbeuf, Marseille, Montreal 
Jewish Fates During the Second World War
Host: Montreal Holocaust Museum
Access: https://destinees-juives.expositionsvirtuelles.fr/en/

New Lives
After the Holocaust, Canada became home to over 35,000 Jewish refugees. What challenges did survivors face when they arrived? Where in Canada did they settle, and who helped them find a new home, work and education? Learn about this unique history through a collection of video testimonies recorded by archives and Holocaust education organizations throughout the country. Through personal accounts, itineraries, and photographs, explore key dates of immigration, before, during and after the Second World War.
Host: Montreal Holocaust Museum
Access: http://refairesavie.museeholocauste.ca/eng

Ottawa Holocaust Survivors Testimonials
Recorded testimonials of Ottawa Holocaust Survivors
Host: Centre for Holocaust Education (CHES)
Access: https://chesatottawa.ca/ottawa-holocaust-survivors-testimonials-full-length/

Topography of Violence: Antisemitic Violence in Germany 1930-1938
Jews, Jewish institutions, and Jewish-owned firms and stores in the German Reich were subjected to increasing violence long before 9 November 1938. The visualization on this website presents information about the dates and locations of many different acts of violence that took place between 1930 and 1938.
Host: Judisches Museum Berlin
Access: https://www.jmberlin.de/topographie-gewalt/#/en/vis