Empowering Educators
Comprehensive Resources to Combat Antisemitism
Resources
This resource hub was created to support educators in researching Jewish history, identity, the Holocaust, and the realities of antisemitism. The links below lead to trusted organizations and educational tools that can help you foster inclusive learning environments and meaningful classroom conversations.
Whether you’re addressing antisemitism, exploring Jewish culture, or introducing Holocaust education, these external resources have been carefully selected to reflect BCTAA’s values of accuracy, empathy, and allyship in education.
Education Resources from BC
IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
Put out by the Canadian government, this handbook explains how provides non-prescriptive guidance for how the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism can be practically used in the work of several fields – one of them being education.
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) is devoted to Holocaust-based anti-racism education and commemoration and has numerous resources and education programs.
Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association
The Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association (HAEA) is a dedicated group of B.C. teachers who came together with a shared commitment to ensure that the lessons of the history of the Holocaust are not forgotten, particularly in light of a resurgence of antisemitism worldwide.
Education Resources from Canada
Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
By sharing the first-person memoirs and diaries of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Canada, the Foundation ensures that current and future generations can learn about the Holocaust from the survivors who dared to write their stories.
Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation – CAEF
CAEF has provided Canadians with programs to bridge understanding across ethno-racial and faith communities, to see the humanity in all, and to confront discrimination, including racism and antisemitism.
Educators Against Antisemitism
Educators Against Antisemitism from Ontario Educators is a grassroots organization of stakeholders within the field of education committed to the eradication of racism, antisemitism and hatred in all its forms. They have multiple education resources available for teachers.
Unlearn Antisemitism
Unlearn It is a mixed-media resource hub consisting of case studies, video modules, learning resources, interactive discussion guides and extended learning opportunities designed to equip learners with the skills to take action against anti-Jewish bias and hatred.
Education Resources from around the world
Anti-Defamation League
ADL fights all forms of antisemitism and bias, using innovation and partnerships. Through educational programs and resources on antisemitism, the Holocaust and anti-bias learning, ADL helps equip teachers and students with the knowledge and skills to challenge bias and hate.
Camera Education Institute
CAMERA’s Education Institute was established to confront antisemitism and anti-Zionism in American education. CAMERA also provide materials for the classroom, including curricular information about the Arab-Israeli conflict and other topics related to the Jewish state.
Facing History
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry and hate. It offers compelling classroom resources and teaching methods to make a difference in the lives of students.
The Holocaust Center for Humanity
The Holocaust Center for Humanity of Seattle teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action. It has multiple materials and professional development opportunities for teachers.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance addresses contemporary challenges related to the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma. It fosters education, remembrance, and research about what happened in the past to build a world without genocide in the future.
Institute for Curriculum Services
Dedicated to improving the accuracy of K-12 instruction and instructional materials on Jews, Judaism, and Jewish history, ICS develops and shares standards-aligned curricula and a variety of resources and provides professional development for teachers.
StandWithUs
StandWithUs is an international, non-partisan education organization that fights antisemitism and provides materials to help empower and energize students and communities with leadership training and educational programs.
Unpacked
With so much antisemitism related to misrepresentations of what is happening in and around Israel, Unpacked is dedicated to providing information and short videos that explore big questions and untangle complex topics.
Stopping Antisemitism and Promoting Holocaust Education
Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver
The Community Toolkit provides multiple tools individuals can use to deal with antisemitism they face in the workplace, in public, in school, in their union, and in many other situations.
Centre of Israel and Jewish Affairs
CIJA is the advocacy agent of Jewish Federations of Canada-UIA, representing Jewish Federations across Canada. CIJA represents the diverse perspectives and concerns of Jewish community members from coast to coast.
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies carries out the work of the Wiesenthal Center in Canada by bringing attention to antisemitism, bigotry, racial hatred, and ethnic intolerance through social awareness and public education.
B’nai Brith Canada
Canada’s oldest Human Rights organization, B’nai Brith is a grassroots voice dedicated to eradicating racism, antisemitism and hatred in all its forms, championing the rights of the marginalized, while providing basic human needs for members of our community.