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Schools: Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories to Student
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| Students listen as a survivor tells his tale |
May 23, 2007
Last week, eighth-grade students at Cornwall middle school got a unique opportunity to connect with history when survivors of the Nazi Holocaust came to the middle school to share their experiences from that dark period in 20th-century history.
The survivors came from the Holocaust Museum and Study Center in Rockland county to tell their harrowing tales of imprisonment, escape, lives on the run, loss, and, ultimately, of triumph.
Most of the aging survivors were young when the Nazis began to round up Jewish populations in Germany and throughout eastern Europe. Their stories resonated with the eighth-grade students today who were often the same age as the survivors when their lives were torn asunder by the Holocaust.
In addition to hearing the stories during the day-long program, students also listened to audiocasts that recreated what it was like to be hiding and on the run from the approaching Nazi troops. They were also presented with ethical dilemmas that many citizens faced during the war, asked to choose between handing over Jewish citizens and facing death themselves.
Parent Joann Parker worked with the middle school PTO to bring the program to the school for the second year in a row. She started the program, she says, after her son read the Diary of Anne Frank in eighth grade and was left with the impression that Frank’s experience was an isolated event. In an effort to show the students the widespread devastation caused by the Holocaust, Parker invited the Museum and Study Center to Cornwall Middle School for this impressive presentation.
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Thank you CCMS for bringing this experience to our children. My 8th grader, who doesn't come home and tell me ANYTHING about school, was very moved by this. We talked at great length about this horrible reality that happened not that long ago. To hear these stories..... and see these people...... much more effective than a textbook! Thank you.
posted by skooter on 05/28/07 at 12:00 AM
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This type of program, should be a required part of our curriculum. The Holocost is a part of our history, one that touched the lives of American families, too. Millions of lives were lost, and families across this country too, lost relatives and friends in this horrific event. If our children are not made aware of the hatred that led to this devastating event, we are falling short as parents. We need to educate our children about bigotry and hatred, and teach acceptance and understanding, so that the past does not repeat itself.
posted by coop1 on 08/28/07 at 12:00 AM
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This type of program, should be a required part of our curriculum. The Holocaust is a part of our history, one that touched the lives of American families, too. Millions of lives were lost, and families across this country too, lost relatives and friends in this horrific event. If our children are not made aware of the hatred that led to this devastating event, we are falling short as parents. We need to educate our children about bigotry and hatred, and teach acceptance and understanding, so that the past does not repeat itself.
posted by coop1 on 08/28/07 at 12:00 AM
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