A three day visit to the Holocaust Centre in Cape Town has forever changed the way a group of CPUT students view the world.
The Public Relations students were split into three groups and each group spent one day learning about the Holocaust and the horrific impact prejudice can have.
PR lecturer Ayesha Toyer says it was her class’s first visit to the centre but she planned on returning annually and also encouraged other lecturers to explore class visits.
“For many, it was their first experience with any content from the Holocaust and they were deeply moved by all the material they came into contact with,” she says.
The students also appreciated the generosity of the centre in hosting them and said they had grown their opinions on topics like propaganda and South Africa’s own apartheid legacy.
Some of the anonymous student comments shared after the visit included;The similar history that Jewish people share with black people is interesting and hopefully the two nations will come together as one.
It has given me a lot of knowledge about the mass murder that happened in WW2 and also the link between the Holocaust and apartheid. The most important point I learnt was the influence of propaganda on people’s minds.
