Today, the Tour for Humanity started off the week in Sudbury. Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) Educator Elena visited an all-girls school in the Sudbury Catholic District School Board. Elena taught 6 workshops to students from Grades 7 through 10, all on the Canadian Experience. The school was extremely excited to have Tour for Humanity visit and were very enthusiastic about the program once they experienced it. Two teachers in particular were raving about it. 

The students from the day were a pleasure to work with. The first workshop was a group of Grade 7s. Elena took a moment to explain that today we understand that people who have different ways of thinking are often very intelligent and have a lot to offer but that the Nazis were blinded to that fact by their sad view of human life and hatred for anything different. Elena also had several interesting questions and she was thankful that even the high school students were open to discussion. One student shared that her great-grandfather had been Mussolini's bodyguard. Elena thought that was fascinating and gave the group a little background on Mussolini as dictator in Italy. One of the more comical questions of the day was, "Why did Hitler have that stupid moustache?" Elena explained that his moustache is probably the most notorious moustache in history, but he didn't actually invent the style. It had been a fashion in the late 19th century called a "toothbrush moustache" and Hitler started wearing it like that during World War I.