Students learn about country’s troubled past, Tour for Humanity makes stop in Kitchener [Video]

Teaching the next generation about our past in hopes of a better future is the Tour for Humanity’s goal as it made a stop in Kitchener on Wednesday.

Grade 6 students at St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Elementary School had a much different classroom backdrop – the inside of a bus.

The mobile education centre, operated by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, takes students on a trip back in time – one of a troubled past.

“This essentially begins with an overview of the Holocaust through the story of our namesake, Simon Wiesenthal,” said Daniella Lurion, director of the Tour for Humanity.

Since its launch in 2013, the tour has visited more than 1,200 schools across the country with the hopes of teaching young students about the Holocaust and Canada’s human rights history.

“We begin with a history of slavery … residential schools, Indigenous Peoples … the …