Today the Tour for Humanity was in Woodstock at a high school where Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) Educator Elena taught 6 workshops throughout the day, five on the Canadian Experience and one Global Experience.

The students were interested in the material - along with the bus itself! After one jam-packed workshop of 45 students after lunchtime, we had a much smaller group of applied level history students. As is always good to see, there was one very knowledgeable World War II buff who specifically asked about how the Nazis treated resistance movements in countries the Nazis had control of including France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Elena didn’t talk about it for long but she mentioned that anything that looked like organized resistance was the ultimate crime in the eyes of the Nazi regime, particularly work to help Jews or try to liberate the country from German control. Elena gave the example of Sophie Scholl, a German student who was executed for treason by the Nazis because she was found distributing anti-war leaflets at Munich University.