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Today T4H spent the day at a high school in Brampton. There were 4 workshops of the Global Perspectives workshop. This workshop begins with a screening of a three-part documentary series produced by FSWC entitled The Holocaust, Universal Genocide and Real World Heroes. The Ten Stages of Genocide are then discussed in relation to the Holocaust and other world genocides, including Rwanda, Cambodia and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine and throughout Eastern Europe under Joseph Stalin’s reign. The students interacted with FSWC Educator Daniella quite well. 

The last group of the day had a lot of questions surrounding the Nuremberg Race Chart and how the Nazis classified who was Jewish and who was German. Daniella spent considerable time going over the meaning of "mischling" and how the Nazis knew which families were Jewish. Being a Catholic school, the same class was also quite taken aback by the use of the yellow star. In order to explain the pain and emotions that people felt, Daniella asked the class to imagine having to wear the cross in a very negative way that would make them targets on the street. They all agreed that it would be very difficult. The first group of the day was a Grade 12 social justice class, where the teacher and some students had traveled to Cambodia last year to see the Killing Fields so the students were very interested in the topic of genocide. Daniella could see the class look horrified and shocked that the Rwandan genocide had happened only 20 years ago.