Charlotte Schallié and Ilona Shulman Spaar

Charlotte Schallié, PhD, is a professor of Germanic Studies at UVic. Her research interests include post-1945 German literature and film, memory studies, visual storytelling, Jewish identity in contemporary cultural discourse, teaching and learning about the Holocaust and human rights education. Together with Agnes Hirschi, Charlotte co-edited Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest (Ibidem, 2017; Kalligram, 2019; Limmat Verlag, 2020). // Ilona Shulman Spaar, PhD, is the Education Director and Curator of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC). She is in charge of the centre’s school programming, educational resources and professional development events for teachers. Ilona is the curator of the museums’ original exhibitions Treasured Belongings: The Hahn Family & the Search for a Stolen Legacy (2019), In Focus: The Holocaust Through the VHEC Collection (2018) and Faces of Survival: Photographs by Marissa Roth (2018).

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“Trust is not just something that you ‘organize’, it’s earned over time”: Approaches to Gathering Trust-based Testimony and Research Methodologies

Posted by Charlotte Schallié and Ilona Shulman Spaar on March 4, 2021

This is the 2nd blog in a 2 part series. Click here to read Part 1 which discusses the project and art as a critical tool of inquiry.

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Topics: Holocaust, Survivor Testimony, Museum Studies, Holocaust Education, Holocaust and Human Behaviour, Graphic novels

When Storytelling Intersects with Holocaust & Human Rights Education: An International Education Project Initiated in Canada

Posted by Charlotte Schallié and Ilona Shulman Spaar on February 25, 2021

This is the 1st blog in a 2 part series. Part 1 discusses the project and art as a critical tool of inquiry. Part 2 explores the process and approaches to putting together testimony and historian research methodologies for educators interested in teaching students what active historian work looks like.

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Topics: Holocaust, Museum Studies, Holocaust Education, Holocaust and Human Behaviour, Inquiry, Graphic novels

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