Wellington Heights Secondary School

This week is Holocaust Education Week.  Recognizing this week aligns with Wellington Heights’s commitment to teaching about historical and current experiences of systemic oppression and rising antisemitism.  From 1933-1945, the Nazi Germany regime was responsible for the state-sanctioned, persecution and killing of six million Jewish people and 5 million non-Jewish people. This was because they were classified by the regime as racially or biologically inferior. 

This included:

• Roma and Sinti people

• LGBTQIA+ people

• People with disabilities,

• Slavic peoples

• Afro-descendant people

Almost 80 million people would die in World War II, the global war that brought an end to the Nazi Regime in Germany.

Understanding historical harms provides the learning necessary for a future free of antisemitism and genocide. Holocaust Education Week is also a time to acknowledge the resiliency of Jewish Canadians and their contributions to Canadian culture.