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Milngavie Herald, UK
Feb 14 2015
Pupils create a poignant reminder on wall
Senior pupils at Boclair Academy in Bearsden, who visited Auschwitz
last year, spoke about their experience at the camp and Krakow
cemeteries at a special assembly recently.
They also led a commemorative ceremony and planted a symbolic tree
within the school grounds and pupils created a commemorative wall of
remembrance (above).
S3 pupils learned about "the first holocaust" or "the Kaiser's
Holocaust", in which 60,000 Africans were killed in the deserts of
modern Namibia. They also researched the killing of 1.5 million
Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I - the Armenian Genocide.
Many pupils were particularly struck by a chilling quote from Adolf
Hitler in 1939: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of
the Armenians?" This year's Holocaust Memorial Day theme was 'Keep the
Memory Alive.' Pupils studied the WWII Holocaust (11 million killed)
and watched a 'Nazi Atrocities' documentary film before looking at the
1994 Rwandan Genocide.
http://www.milngavieherald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/pupils-create-a-poignant-reminder-on-wall-1-3688901
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Feb 14 2015
Pupils create a poignant reminder on wall
Senior pupils at Boclair Academy in Bearsden, who visited Auschwitz
last year, spoke about their experience at the camp and Krakow
cemeteries at a special assembly recently.
They also led a commemorative ceremony and planted a symbolic tree
within the school grounds and pupils created a commemorative wall of
remembrance (above).
S3 pupils learned about "the first holocaust" or "the Kaiser's
Holocaust", in which 60,000 Africans were killed in the deserts of
modern Namibia. They also researched the killing of 1.5 million
Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I - the Armenian Genocide.
Many pupils were particularly struck by a chilling quote from Adolf
Hitler in 1939: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of
the Armenians?" This year's Holocaust Memorial Day theme was 'Keep the
Memory Alive.' Pupils studied the WWII Holocaust (11 million killed)
and watched a 'Nazi Atrocities' documentary film before looking at the
1994 Rwandan Genocide.
http://www.milngavieherald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/pupils-create-a-poignant-reminder-on-wall-1-3688901
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress