Study Tour to Far East
Outstanding Teachers Offered Study Tour to Far East
Edmonton-area teachers are being given the opportunity to study in Asia this next summer.
Organized by the Association for Learning & Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (ALPHA), a non-profit group with chapters in B.C., Alberta and Ontario, teachers will join a study tour of China and Korea during the first two weeks of July.
Participating educators will enhance their knowledge and understanding of atrocities committed during WWII in Asia. Such atrocities included sexual slavery, forced labour and human experimentation.
Learning activities include examination of historical facts, education about social justice, visits to museums, meetings with survivors, and dialogues with local historians, scholars, teachers and lawyers in China and Korea. Click here for full press release.
Teacher Testimonials
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Teachers settling down at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai to listen to Attorney Kang Jian and Prof. Guan Jian Qiang
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This was a residential house in Shanghai confiscated by the Japanese military and converted into a prison of women captured for sexual slavery
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Mass grave dug up during the expansion of Nanking Massacre Memorial Museum #1
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Mass grave dug up during the expansion of Nanking Massacre Memorial Museum #2
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This is the former Jinling Girls College, part of the International Safety Zone
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Teachers and volunteers gathered around the statue of Minnie Vautrin inside Jinling Girls College. She was one of the 28 foreigners staying behind to shelter the Chinese women.
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This was a former residence of John Rabe in Nanking, a German who spearheaded the International Safety Zone to shelter close to 200,000 Chinese from the massacre of Japanese military.
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Exhibit of some Japanese military collection inside the Private Nanking Massacre Memorial Exhibition Centre
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Unit 731 Museum in Harbin, China
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Tunnel of name plaques for victims killed inside Unit 731. This is only a partial list compiled from records that could be confirmed and identified
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