The human rights education bus will make its first stop in Alberta and visit schools in the Calgary area

Calgary-area high school students learned about human rights and Canadian history on Wednesday in a specially modified tour bus that acts as an accessible mobile classroom.

Courtesy of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC). The Canadian experience Covers the MS St. Louis schools that brought Jewish women and children fleeing the Nazis in 1939 and the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II.

Sessions will address cyberbullying, hate crimes and intolerance.

FSWC lecturer Simon Busse said: “We can look at the mistakes made in the past, we can change the way we are now and hopefully move forward in the future.”

“Whether it's in the Holocaust or in Canada's human rights history, hate and discrimination and intolerance are things that continue to this day.”

The bus is part of FSWC A tour for humanity An educational program about the Holocaust, genocide and Canadian human rights history.

The program began in 2013, visiting 1,200 schools from Saskatchewan to the Seas, but is now expanding to Alberta and B.C.