According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Holocaust, was the systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II, between 1933-1945. Current research finds that numbers are estimated to be over 6 million. The Nazis were fixated on racial purity and on an imagined threat that Jews posed to the German nation. One of their core aims was to eliminate Jews from European society. The word Holocaust (Greek) is defined as a complete destruction by fire.

Explore the blue information panels before you and engage with testimonies from Holocaust survivors who made Canada their home. Reflect on what can be learned from this history and survivor stories.