Tour for Humanity spent the day at a Markham high school with 5 workshops for some of their Grade 10 History classes.

This school has bee involved with Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) for many years and has started integrating Tour for Humanity visits into each semester’s curriculum. The school organizer - a Guidance Counsellor - began this tradition back in early 2015 and FSWC has been returning with the bus each semester ever since.

Today’s groups participated in the Global Perspectives workshop as they were just beginning to cover the Holocaust in class so everything fit in very well. As is often the case with high school students, the classes were generally pretty quiet but there were at least a few students in each class who answered questions. There were also some interesting questions asked, including one student who wanted to know “which genocide was the worst” - so FSWC Educator Daniella explained that there isn't a hierarchy of suffering and that all genocides are bad; however, the Holocaust was unique because of how systematic the persecution and murder was.