The RE Department was successful in its bid to get the trees from the Woodland Trust which have been planted as living memorials to the victims.

 

The collection of trees, including elders, dog roses, crab apples and blackthorns, will not only act and a remembrance but enhance the college leafy grounds for years to come and provide food and shelter for wildlife.

 

“Loreto College is committed to providing its students with opportunities to reflect on human experiences past and present,” said Religious Education teacher Ms Baron.

 

“We devoted Religious Education lessons during the week of Holocaust Memorial Day in January, to reflecting on the Holocaust and its legacy,” she said.

 

“Students were encouraged to reflect on how the Holocaust and recent genocides have impacted on future generations, and still continue.”

 

Six million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during World World II. Between 1975 and 1979 1.7 million people were killed in Cambodia out of a population of 8 million. From April to June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed, most of the dead were Tutsis and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. More recently between 2003 and 2010 at least 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur, Western Sudan.