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Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
The Toronto Holocaust Museum is proud to be the Education Partner on the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)’s exhibition, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
Type of Exhibition: Heritage
THM supports the ROM’S Auschwitz exhibition
The Toronto Holocaust Museum is proud to be the Education Partner on the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)’s upcoming exhibition, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away., on view at the ROM, January 10, 2025 – September 1, 2025. The THM’s support enables the ROM to provide exceptional learning experiences for thousands of school-aged students visiting the exhibition. Learn more about the exhibition.
Recommended for Adults, Teens & Youth
An unprecedented exhibition that examines the history and legacy of Auschwitz.
Created by Nazi Germany, the most significant site of the Holocaust, Auschwitz, was not a single entity. It gradually became a system of camps that combined two functions: a concentration camp and a killing centre in which some 1 million Jews — and tens of thousands of others, including Poles, Romani people, and Soviet POWs — were detained and murdered in a systematic and industrialized fashion. This powerful exhibition, which arrives in Toronto just ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 2025, explores the dual identity of the Auschwitz camp as a physical setting — the largest documented mass murder site in human history — and as a symbol of the borderless manifestation of hatred and human atrocity.
The internationally touring exhibition, created by Musealia, co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, and developed with an esteemed international panel of curators and historians, is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions ever presented on the subject, and ROM is the only Canadian stop on its international tour. Survivor testimonials, historical documentation, and first-hand accounts by emancipating forces create a powerful connection to the exhibition’s more than 500 original objects — many of which have never been seen before in Canada — on loan from the Auschwitz Memorial and more than 20 other major institutions and private collections around the world. Additionally, physical camp objects and archival records provide a contextual framework for the political and social landscape in Europe before the Auschwitz camp was created, the complex’s day-to-day environment, and its continued legacy, raising awareness of the intellectual ingredients and human machinations at work in realizing such systemic barbarism.
Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. underscores a critical need to understand the underlying conditions that allowed the Holocaust to happen. By reflecting on the past, visitors are invited to consider their role in creating a more inclusive and tolerant society.
Exhibition Patrons: Colliers International Group; Wendy & Elliott Eisen and Family; FirstService Corporation; Fogler, Rubinoff LLP; Freeman Family; Lillian & Norman Glowinsky and Family; Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin; Goldman Sachs Canada Inc.; Louis and Garry Greenbaum and their Families in memory of Morris and Helen Greenbaum z’l; Brown and Lindenberg Families; Metropia; Power Corporation of Canada; The Rechtsman & Silver Families; Rochelle Reichert & Henry Wolfond; The Edward and Suzanne Rogers Foundation; Shael Rosenbaum; The Schulich Foundation; The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation; Isadore and Rosalie Sharp; Larry and Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation; Temerty Foundation; Torys LLP; The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation; Ted and Annette Wine & Family; Anonymous (2).
Community Partners: Andrea and Michael Barrack; Judy Bronfman Bernick and Howard Bernick; Sari and David Binder; Rocco and Irene Pantalone, Penny Offman, Harry and Dora Kichler and Simon and Jan Zucker; Paul and Tanya Braun; Helen Burstyn; CIBC; Kiki and Ian Delaney; Susan, Perry, Taylor and Nicholas Dellelce; Focus Wealth Management and Hazelview Investments; George and Kitty Grossman; Cory Hawtin; Mark Hilson and Kathleen O’Keefe; Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation; Geoffrey S. Belsher; Gregory S.Belton C.M., C.V.O, LL.D; Wayne Squibb; Rosamond Ivey; Pamela Pastoll Jacobson, Ian Jacobson and Families; Khrom Capital; KingSett Capital; Northbridge Capital Inc.; Andrew Pastor and Nicholas Telemaque; RBC Foundation; Heather Regent Family Charitable Foundation; Jill Reitman and Joel Reitman, C.M.; Larry Rosen & Susan Jackson; Robert Rubinoff; The Shen Family Charitable Foundation; Ken Shi & Yvonne Lou; Elsa Stringer and Shephen Stark; Fran and Ed Sonshine; TorQuest Partners; The Venn-Mitchell Family; Honouring Gabriella Adler, Auschwitz survivor, born in 1926 – ; Anonymous.
Presented by:
A Kultura Collective Member
In partnership with
Education Partner: Toronto Holocaust Museum
Start Date:
January 10, 2025
End Date:
September 1, 2025
ROM opening hours – rom.on.ca/operating-hours
Downtown Toronto
Level 4, Roloff Beny Gallery, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto
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