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The memoirs program has two hats,

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and both hats are equally important.

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We are a publisher of memoirs written by survivors who came

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to Canada after the war.

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Survivors chose to publish with us.

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We promise to give their book an audience, and so we do.

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But once the book has been published, we educate,

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we train teachers on how to bring that one story

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of a first person account into the classroom

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to really connect it to Canadian history.

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Almost every province is changing

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and adding a Holocaust mandate

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to their provincial curriculum.

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Um, and we're there for that. We're there to help teachers.

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We realized that the teachers needed guidance in terms of

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how to bring the topic

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of the Holocaust into the classroom in a way

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that was both respectful to the history,

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but also mindful of the students

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that we have in our classrooms.

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It was very important to train teachers so

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that we could give them that support

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and help them feel confident in how to do

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that in a way that works for them.

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The goal is that in every classroom, uh, one

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of our survivor memoirs, if not all over 120 stories, um,

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are there in their voices are part of the conversation.