The course at New Milford covers the Armenian genocide, the Aramaean persecution during the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and human behavior and genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur.
Each year Tambuscio travels with students to Europe as part of a Holocaust study tour. This school year's trip in April will visit Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, where the students will meet Holocaust survivors; when they return to the U.S., they will create outreach programs. In May, a group of students from Nahariya will visit New Milford.
"The students come back with a sense of responsibility for telling the stories," said New Milford Superintendent Michael Polizzi. "They understand that every year there are fewer and fewer survivors, and they pick up on that … that resonates with them."
The course is a model program at the high school.
Rosenberg's presentation offered students an idea of how their counterpart students dress, study and test for college. His insight and information will tie into a global leadership program to be introduced into the New Milford curriculum, Polizzi said.
Meredith McCann, a senior who traveled to Europe with Tambuscio last year, called Rosenberg's talk invaluable.
"Having him speak and having them here is something you really can't get anywhere else," said McCann, 17. "A lot of questions about Israel have been cleared up. He's opening our eyes so much to information that we never really knew before. The questions [about Israel and the Holocaust] aren't really coming to him from us yet because we're absorbing so much of what he said today. We've studied the warning signs to genocide and the Armenian genocide and are now in the beginning of studying the Holocaust, so the timing [of their visit] is perfect."
Technology such as Skype and social networking sites are an advantage now that the students have met all the educators, McCann said.
"The more connections we make, the more connections we'll be able to have when w
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