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  • Episode 453: Holocaust Education Series - Bonus Episode - Stories We DIdn't Tell

    Episode 453: Holocaust Education Series - Bonus Episode - Stories We DIdn't Tell
    Dec 11 2025
    Bonus Episode: Stories We Didn't Tell This episode was produced by Mr Maillet - High School History and Psychology Teacher. He apologizes for any misspronounced names and locations. The Holocaust is so vast that no series can cover every story. This bonus episode introduces important topics we didn't have time to explore in our main series and invites you to continue learning. Discover the Kindertransport, which saved nearly 10,000 Jewish children (including 669 rescued by Nicholas Winton). Learn about Protestant churches in Budapest that hid Jewish children during Hungary's darkest days. Explore the Danish rescue that saved 95% of Denmark's Jews, uprisings in death camps, hidden children who survived in silence, and the Righteous Among Nations who risked everything. We also discuss how Holocaust education is taught in classrooms today, the challenges educators face, age-appropriate approaches, and why this history remains essential for students. Consider this your reading list, your museum guide, your invitation to dig deeper into the stories of rescue, resistance, and resilience that deserve to be remembered.
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    26 min
  • Episode 452: Holocaust Education Series Part 3: Defiance, Justice, and Legacy

    Episode 452: Holocaust Education Series Part 3: Defiance, Justice, and Legacy
    Dec 6 2025
    The powerful conclusion to our Holocaust Education Month series focuses on resistance, justice, and lessons for today. This episode was produced and recorded by Mr Maillet, High School History and Psychology Teacher. He apologizes for any mispronunciation of German, Belarusian or Polish names. In part 3, we explore the remarkable stories of courage: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, revolts in Sobibor and Auschwitz, the Bielski partisan brothers who saved over 1,200 Jews in the Belarusian forests, and Żegota; the only state-sponsored underground rescue organization in occupied Europe. We follow liberation, the Cyprus detention camps where 52,000 Holocaust survivors were imprisoned by Britain (1946-1949), and witness the Nuremberg Trials. We learn how Raphael Lemkin coined the word "genocide" and how the 1948 UN Convention made it a crime under international law, but shockingly few Nazis were ever prosecuted. We meet several of the 27,000 Righteous Among the Nations members including Chiune Sugihara, who wrote visas by hand for 29 days saving thousands of Jews, and Arie Van Mansum, who rescued hundreds in the Netherlands before emigrating to Ottawa. We confront the painful truth: "Never Again" has failed; genocide has occurred in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. We examine what the Allies knew and failed to do, rising contemporary antisemitism, and ask ourselves: what lessons must we carry forward? Music track: A Sweet Story by Guillermo Guareschi Source: freetouse.com/music Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe)
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    1 h et 12 min
  • Episode 451: The Machinery of Death- Holocaust Education Series Part 2

    Episode 451: The Machinery of Death- Holocaust Education Series Part 2
    Dec 4 2025
    Episode 2: The Machinery of Death - This episode was produced and recorded by Mr Maillet, High School History Teacher. He apologizes for any mispronunciation of German or Polish terms and names. In this second episode of our Holocaust Education Month series, we confront the Holocaust itself - the systematic, industrialized murder of six million Jews. We begin with Nazi-occupied Poland (1939-1941), examining how Jews were marked with white armbands, stripped of rights, and confined to ghettos. We hear Janusz Korczak's heartbreaking choice to die with his orphans. We follow the Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads and witness the Babyn Yar massacre. We sit at the Wannsee Conference where fifteen Nazi officials spent ninety minutes coordinating the murder of eleven million people. We examine the six death camps—Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz—where murder became industrial. We walk through Auschwitz-Birkenau in detail: the selections, the deception, the gas chambers, the daily existence of prisoners. Finally, we witness Hungary 1944, when 437,000 Jews were murdered in less than two months—proving the Nazis prioritized genocide even while losing the war. Content Warning: Contains detailed descriptions of genocide and mass murder
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    1 h et 8 min
  • Episode 450: The Seeds of Hatred - Holocaust Education Series Part 1

    Episode 450: The Seeds of Hatred - Holocaust Education Series Part 1
    Nov 26 2025
    Holocaust Education Series Part 1: Seeds of Hatred In this first episode of our three-part Holocaust Education Month series, we examine the historical forces that made the Holocaust possible. Starting with shocking statistics about gaps in Canadian Holocaust knowledge, we trace antisemitism from medieval Europe through the Nazi rise to power in 1933. Learn how Hitler exploited democracy through violence and intimidation, how the SA (Stormtroopers) terrorized opponents, and how the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship. We examine Kristallnacht's violence and explore the tragic stories of the SS St. Louis and MV Struma—ships full of Jewish refugees turned away by Canada, the United States, and other nations. Understanding how the Holocaust began is essential to ensuring it never happens again. Runtime: 45-50 minutes | Content Warning: Discusses historical persecution and violence Each episode in this series was researched and produced by Mr Maillet, a High School History Teacher. He apologizes in advance for any mispronunciation of names and terms in foreign languages. Music track: A Sweet Story by Guillermo Guareschi Source: https://freetouse.com/music Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe)
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    43 min
  • Episode 449: The Legacy of the Ottoman Empire

    Episode 449: The Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
    Oct 28 2025
    This podcast was researched, produced and recorded by Maya and Maria in their CHY4U - World History class. In this episode, they discuss why the Ottoman Empire left a greater legacy on the world today than the Safavid and Mughal Empires. Are you ready? This episode is a BANG! Get it? The Ottomans are one of the original Gunpowder Empires. Works Cited Too many to include in the description! See this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDUQ7Q35h8jvdGbvZGj_2nb7dMGc7ihg6tOcbJYdWkc/edit?usp=sharing
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    13 min
  • Episode 448: Queen of the Hurricanes - Elsie MacGill

    Episode 448: Queen of the Hurricanes - Elsie MacGill
    Jul 21 2025
    Join Mr Maillet as he we explores the groundbreaking life of Elsie MacGill, Canada's pioneering "Queen of the Hurricanes." Born in Vancouver in 1905, MacGill shattered barriers to become the world's first female aircraft designer and aeronautical engineer. Despite being struck by polio during her university years, MacGill's determination never wavered. She went on to play a crucial role in Canada's World War II effort, overseeing the production of over 1,400 Hawker Hurricane fighter planes that helped turn the tide of the war. But MacGill's legacy extends far beyond aviation. As a founding member of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, she helped shape policies that advanced women's rights for generations. From breaking engineering barriers in the 1940s to championing equality in the 1960s, MacGill's story is one of resilience, innovation, and unwavering advocacy. Discover how a young woman from British Columbia rose to become one of Canada's most influential engineers and social advocates, leaving a lasting impact on both our skies and our society. This episode was made possible by the gracious support of the St. Peter High School Parent Council for their funding to receive a Maono Caaster Lite AU-AM200-S1 recording set up. Mr Maillet produced this episode to test the equipment on a Chromebook to better support students during the upcoming Academic Year.
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    20 min
  • Episode 447: History in 120 Seconds: The 1992 LA Riots

    Episode 447: History in 120 Seconds: The 1992 LA Riots
    Jun 20 2025
    In April 1992, Los Angeles erupted. When four LAPD officers were acquitted in the brutal beating of Rodney King, decades of simmering racial tension, inequality, and frustration boiled over. For six devastating days, the city became a battleground of protests, looting, and arson, leaving a lasting scar on its landscape and a profound question mark over justice in America. This 120-second snapshot by Grade 12 student Tyson O'Niel explores the flashpoint and the immediate aftermath of this pivotal moment in US history. Sources used were not submitted by the student.
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    3 min
  • Episode 446: CHY4U - RST - A Brief Look at the Vietnam War

    Episode 446: CHY4U - RST - A Brief Look at the Vietnam War
    Jun 20 2025
    Echoes of Vietnam: A War That Changed Everything The Vietnam War was a defining moment of the 20th century. In this short listen, we touch upon the major events, the challenging terrain, and the deep divisions it caused at home and abroad, leaving a lasting legacy on politics, society, and the way future conflicts were viewed. Join Grade 12 student Taiki Mossman as he walks us through this important conflict during the Cold War. No sources were submitted by the student for this episode.
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    8 min