The horror of the Holocaust remains with the survivors who keep the memory alive for the future.
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For the past 24 years, Mount Royal College has conducted symposia for grade 12 students in Calgary about the Nazi Holocaust. A word of caution: some of the images in this report might be disturbing to some viewers.
We've all heard about the Holocaust... the attempted genocide by Nazi Germany against European Jews. But for most, if not all high school students, the events of World War II, nearly seventy years ago, probably seem like dim history.
Until they hear about the Holocaust, first hand.
These Grade 12 students were part of the 24th Mount Royal College symposium on the destruction of European Jews. And holocaust survivor Robbie Waisman (pronounced weiss-man) told them how his older brother, his entire family, save one sister, were killed.
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