The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada is an incorporated non-profit multi-faceted organization involved in preserving, documenting, interpreting and sharing Jewish heritage.
Headquartered at the Asper Jewish Community Campus, the JHC includes a research library, an extensive archive collection, exhibitions of our history through artifacts and displays as well as visiting and seasonal exhibits, and a Holocaust resource and education centre.
Our mission is to be dedicated to advancing and promoting knowledge, understanding and preservation of the cultural and religious life of our people. We also serve as an advocate for tolerance and anti-racism.
We do so through our top-quality museum exhibits, research facilities, educational programs, cultural programs, and special events that our small hardworking staff and many enthusiastic volunteers design, direct, and produce.
The JHC also serves the public as a storehouse of information about the history of the Jewish people in Western Canada. We provide a place where this history can be preserved for the future, viewed through exhibitions, discussed and remembered through our various programs and speakers, and made available through our research room and our extensive archives. Our archivist on staff is available to assist you.
