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Remembering
the Holocaust
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Many of our Freshmen have just
finished reading “Night” by Eli Wiesel. In this book
Wiesel recounts his early years with his father in a
Nazi concentration camp. To help the Freshmen
understand how real this story is, Ms. Shelley,
their teacher, invited a Holocaust survivor, Rabbi
Jungreis, to speak to her students about his
experiences during World War II.
One hundred Freshmen welcomed Rabbi Jungreis on
November 29th and listened to him speak about the
horrors of his childhood. Rabbi Jungreis spoke about
how the Jews were treated In Europe in the 1930's.
He also recounted his own experiences as a child
walking to school having other children yell at him,
“Swine.” He spoke about the six million Jews who
were killed by the Nazis, how the world ignored what
was going on and how he himself had been saved when
a Jewish foundation paid a ransom of five million
dollars to have eighteen hundred Jews released from
a camp in Hungary. At the end of the talk the
students were able to ask questions. |
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