Tomorrow morning (January 14th) at 10:00am PST, the Ninandotoo Society will be livestreaming a virtual program for Black Excellence Day, in partnership with the Burnaby School District. More than 10,000 people from school communities throughout BC are coming together virtually for the first-ever Black Excellence Day, and the VHEC’s very own Lillian Boraks-Nemetz will be …
Lillian is one of 40 survivors of the Shoah in British Columbia to feature in a new exhibit at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. Faces of Survival, by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Marissa Roth, will be shown at the VHEC (50 – 950 W 41st Ave, Vancouver) from now until June 2019.
Lillian was the keynote speaker in Abbotsford before to 700 students on May 15 as part of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre’s 6th Annual Symposium on the Holocaust. She was also on a panel following the talk with historian Sebastian Huebel. The audience of young people was very engaged and asked intelligent questions. Special thanks to Cathy …