Current Collections
Holocaust and World War II Memory Collection
Founded by Jason Michaud, Helga Thorson, and Andrea van Noord after the inaugural I-witness Field School in 2011, this collection is a community-oriented initiative that documents local and global memories of the Holocaust and WWII in a variety of forms. [ See Collection ]
Remembering the Holocaust in Victoria, Oral Histories
Who has commemorated the Shoah in Victoria, and why? In this collection you’ll find oral histories of key figures in Holocaust commemoration and education in Victoria BC, conducted by Jordan Stanger-Ross for the SSHRC funded Defying Hatred Project. [ See Collection ]
Servitengasse, 1938-1945
A digital mapping project, undertaken collaboratively between the “Servitengasse 1938” working group in Vienna and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria (Canada), which maps the Jewish residents and business owners of one street: Who were the Jewish residents living and working in the Servitengasse in 1938 and what happened to them in the years following the German annexation of Austria? [See Collection]
Stories of the Holocaust
An exhibit the result of a community collaboration between students in a combined undergraduate and graduate seminar on Holocaust and Memory Studies at UVic; members of the local community in Victoria, Vancouver, and Saltspring Island in Western British Columbia; and the University of Victoria Libraries. [See Collection]
Victor Reinstein Digital Collection
Browse the papers of Victor Reinstein, Rabbi of Victoria’s Congregation Emanu-El from 1982-1998. Rabbi Reinstein led the first commemorations of the Holocaust in Victoria. [See Collection]
Future Projects
The Shoah Project Digital Archives: Since 2014, the Shoah Project has led the two major annual commemorative events in Victoria, Yom Hashoah and Kristallnacht. Visit the records of those events here. [Coming soon]