The Benjamin School brings the cattle car to school to remind students of the same message the survivors share. Each generation must be educated on the atrocities of the last in order for history not to repeat itself.
The Hate Ends Now cattle car brings an immersive Holocaust learning experience to students across the nation. As they enter the car, projections of two Holocaust survivors appear on each wall. They share how they came to end up on a cattle car, to which concentration camp they went, and how their fates changed their lives. Though chilling to hear, their stories impact students in more ways than one.
Freshman Sarah Acevedo said, “After I went it felt so much more real. Even in there with just classmates felt cramped up, and I can’t image how the actual people must have felt.”