This educators’ resource was written by educators for educators. It draws on current classroom practices, pedagogy, and curriculum, but is designed for flexible implementation by teachers in a variety of classrooms.
The Survivor Centred Visual Narratives and Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education projects brings together researchers, visual artists, survivors of genocide, librarians, and students in order to create educational resources. Artists work directly with survivors to co-create graphic narratives based on their personal experiences before, during, and after genocide with the help of historians and students. This resource bridges the two projects – highlighting the narratives of two Canadian survivors of the Holocaust.
We are grateful the University of British Columbia Teacher Education Program Community Field Experience which connects teachers to “expand their concept of potential learning sites and how they might get involved, either as a career option or as a classroom teacher with an understanding of educational community connections.”
Our primary goals are to:
- Provide open educational materials online and in print through graphic narratives;
- Develop pedagogical tools for educators around the world teaching the Holocaust;
- Encourage further research by creating audio-visual interviews to enrich the archival collections of partner institutions.
While the resources may be useful to educators on their own, they are meant to accompany But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2024) by (artists) Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin (edited by Charlotte Schallié), and Two Roses (2026) by (artist) Miriam Libicki (edited by Charlotte Schallié) both from the University of Toronto Press.
For more educational materials to accompany But I Live and Survivor Centred Visual Narratives Resources, including our educational approach, please visit our other sites: But I Live Educators’ Resource and Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Resources.
These resources were supported by Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program, National Holocaust Remembrance Program from the Government of Canada. Our international collaboration was made possible by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Development Grant and Partnership Grant, and is based at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
