Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026

Toronto Holocaust Museum Programs

Film Screening: The Future Awaits
Sunday, January 18, 4:00 pm at Cineplex Yonge-Eglinton.
A powerful new film about 13-year-old Tauba and her parents.

Proof of Life: A Documentary in Progress with Jennifer Podemski
Sunday, January 25, 2:00 pm at the Leah Posluns Theatre.
Jennifer situates her grandfather Joseph Podemski’s story within the larger context of the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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Remembering Together: A Survivor’s Story and Legacy
Tuesday, January 27 at 7:30 pm
A special virtual program in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 
screening of Part Two of our Legacy Portrait Project, followed by an intergenerational conversation with Holocaust survivor Sol Nayman and his grandchildren.
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Gathering at Congregation Darchei Noam
Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 pm at 864 Sheppard Avenue W.
We gather as people of faith and goodwill to remember the six million Jews who were murdered in the Shoah, along with the countless others whose lives were destroyed by hatred and indifference. Together, we honour the survivors who have carried memory through courage and testimony, and we reaffirm our shared responsibility to stand against antisemitism, racism, and all forms of intolerance.
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Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a journalist in France before immigrating to America. Over the course of his life, Wiesel fought the “sin of indifference” by writing, teaching, speaking truth to power and championing for human rights.
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