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Kingdom of Reflections | Royaume des réflexions

Kingdom of Reflections | Royaume des réflexions

Written by: Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) & St. Peter Catholic High School
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 This bilingual podcast channel is an on-the-ground look from inside the classroom linked to the outside world. It is the daily explorations of our students on how learning takes place, heard from their voices. These podcasts are unscripted and represents authentic students' reflections. It is produced by St. Peter Catholic High School in Orléans, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. **All comments are moderated and read. Inappropriate comments will be removed. Formely ASH Reflections.** _________________________________

Cette chaîne bilingue de balados offre un regard unique et expérientiel du processus d’apprentissage se déroulant à l'intérieur de la salle de classe tout en étant tourné et ouvert vers le monde extérieur. Ces balados ne sont pas scénarisés et représentent les réflexions authentiques des élèves. Cette chaîne est produite par l’école secondaire catholique St. Peter à Orléans, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. **Tous les commentaires sont gérés et lus. Les commentaires inappropriés seront supprimés. Anciennement ASH Réflexions.**Copyright Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) & St. Peter Catholic High School Spirituality
Episodes
  • 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 mins
  • 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 hr and 12 mins
  • 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 hr and 8 mins
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