New Funding from the National Holocaust Remembrance Program
We are pleased to announce that our funding application to the National Holocaust Remembrance Program has been successful.
From left to right: Graphic artist Miriam Libicki, Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, and Research Cluster Co-lead Mark Celinscak meeting for interviews and the documentary film at Rose’s home in Toronto, Ontario in the summer 2023. Photo credit: Chorong Kim.
Charlotte Schallié and her team have been awarded the Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program (MARP)’s National Holocaust Remembrance Program funding from Heritage Canada for their project, Developing Trauma-Informed Teaching Resources and Outreach Activities for Arts-Based Survivor Testimonies. The application was developed by Drs. Charlotte Schallié, Andrea Webb, Mark Celinscak, and Project Manager Jennifer Sauter with support from the following partners: Toronto Holocaust Museum Azrieli Foundation, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Facing History and Ourselves.
The funding totals $129,769, and will be granted over a 5-year period. It will support the development of open-access educational resources, learning activities (in-person and online) and an art exhibition to accompany two non-fiction graphic novels by award-winning artist Miriam Libicki: A Kind of Resistance (published in the anthology But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, New Jewish Press, 2022) and Two Roses (New Jewish Press, 2025). Created in close partnership with David Schaffer (Vancouver) and Rose Lipszyc (Toronto), respectively, Libicki’s graphic narratives shed light on child survivors’ lived experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland, Germany, and Romania. The target audience for these books is students in Grades 9-12.
An excerpt from Two Roses (New Jewish Press, 2026), the story of Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, by Miriam Libicki.
These two graphic novels have been conceived and co-created as part of two SSHRC-funded projects: Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education (2019-2022; https://holocaustgraphicnovels.uvic.ca/) and our Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (2022-2029).
The funding from the National Holocaust Remembrance Program will allow us to deepen and expand our current teaching resources (which also include two open-access short documentaries). Our goal is to create innovative evidence-based educational tools to help Canadian high school teachers apply a human rights framework and integrate Holocaust education into the secondary school curriculum.
We would like to thank all the partners who supported our vision and helped make this application a success!