One of Canada's leading teachers of Second World War Holocaust lessons will be in The Exploration Place spotlight next week.
Cornlia Strickler, the education coordinator for the Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM), is the next VIP at the podium for the Adult Speaker Series event on Monday night at the city's museum and science centre. Strickler will demonstrate some of the highlights in her facility's enormous trove of artifacts, information and programs to demonstrate the destructive power of a dictatorship in modern times.
Strickler is also the co-author of the textbook entitled Stories Of Holocaust Survivors As An Educational Tool. The other writers were Sabrina Moisan and Eszter Andor who both, like Strickler, work at the MHM.
"Over nine million Jews lived in Europe before the Second World War. From 1933 to 1945, they were persecuted and six million of them were systematically murdered," said Amanda Smedley, deputy director at The Exploration Place. "The destruction of Europe's Jewish communities created an unprecedented shock whose consequences were felt even in Canada. Our September edition of the Adult Speaker Series will explore this series of events including testimony videos drawn from the Montreal Holocaust Museum's exceptional collection. This presentation along with the video testimonials will allow participants to grasp the magnitude of impact that Nazi measure had on the Jews, while also discovering the courageous acts of resistance through the fascinating personal experiences of survivors."
Strickler holds a master's degree in history and has held different various positions at the MHM since 2009, from conducting guided tours to curator curating the museum's oral history collection and developing digital resources such as online exhibits on the holocaust and other genocides.
She is currently responsible for creating pedagogical activities, in close partnership with teachers, which are based on the museum's collections.
She's taken part in several national and international conferences on oral history and Holocaust education.
Strickler's free presentation is called The Holocaust In Six Dates, and happens on Monday at 7 p.m.
