Open house showcasing the Azrieli Holocaust Collection

Held as part of Holocaust Education Week, Geoffrey Little, the collection's curator will provide free guided tours of the Azrieli Holocaust Collection.

Established in 1984 the collection is one of the most important and specialized in Canada for scholarly research and teaching on the Holocaust and the history of anti-Semitism.

The collection also documents the history Nazi Germany, the history of Jewish-Christian relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the immeasurable impact of the Holocaust on post-Holocaust life, thought, and culture with special emphasis on Canada and the United States.

It contains approximately 8,500 titles from almost every discipline and includes rare books and ephemera from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s; digitized primary sources; microfilm collections of government records and war crimes trials; documentaries and feature films; survivor memoirs and diaries; and secondary texts.

The collection was established by Montreal philanthropist and businessman David J. Azrieli, CM, CQ (1922-2014).