learning from history

Marianne Hicks

Teacher - Humanities

During Term 3, the BSC Year 10 history classes travelled to the Jewish Holocaust Centre to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum and to participate in an educational program as part of their Depth Study on WWII. The students visit the museum where they see objects from Europe that were used in the extermination camps and ghettoes, and have the enormous privilege of hearing the story of a Holocaust survivor in person.  

Molly Sanders

Year 10

I think this excursion was really important and useful. It was very interesting to listen to John's story of being a holocaust survivor, and find out that not all people who ‘survived’ were under constant threat. It also surprised me to learn that some Germans were actually radically AGAINST the Nazis.

Andre Pagano

Year 10

At the Holocaust Memorial Museum, a survivor of the Holocaust, John  Jewish Holocaust Centre -  

Andre Pagano

John Chaskiel -  told us his story. I found it astonishing that he said he could never forgive the Nazis, but has no hate against the Germans. 

Sarah Terrett

Year 10

The trip to the Holocaust Museum made me more aware of the impacts of the Holocaust. Seeing actual things and items from the Holocaust made things  more real to me - especially after hearing stories from Holocaust survivors.