The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada

The Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada was founded in May 1968. We operated for over 30 years, functioning as the standing committee on history, research and archives of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Our objectives were to gather, record, preserve and present the history and the religious and cultural heritage of the Jewish People of Western Canada. To that end, the Society conducted a continuous program of acquiring documents, photographs and memorabilia; and engaged in an extensive oral history program. In January 1999, the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada amalgamated with the Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada and the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre to become the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada. The Jewish Heritage Centre is now performing all the functions of the Museum, Holocaust Centre, and Historical Society combined, to continue to preserve the Heritage of the Jewish people of Western Canada. The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada has an extensive archival collection that was started in the 1967 and was maintained and added to during the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada's 30 year existence. The Jewish Heritage Centre now preserves and made these materials available for research. 

For more information, see [here](https://www.jhcwc.org/research/archival-genealogical-fees/). 

Among others contains restitution- and/or compensation-related materials. The Centre has over 700 case files from the now-closed Winnipeg office of URO. They are only open to claimants or their immediate family.