Tell us about your local Holocaust commemoration. How will you remember?
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NameSpringfield class 5-32009-05-29 11:51 AM |
LocationSouth CarolinaMessageWe just watched the documentary "Paperclips." As a class we want to be better world citizens by understanding the Holocaust. We don't want to be racist or prejudice. Everyone is the same on the inside but different on the outside. We want to help everybody out no matter what race or religion. We are going out into the community and help spread this feeling by doing anything we can to help. (Our teacher didnt write this. We, the students wrote this.) |
NameTyler2009-05-29 11:16 AM |
LocationS.CMessageI think it was wrong to kill people for their religion and their beliefs. You would wanted to be treated just like them. |
NameMargie2009-05-11 01:49 PM |
LocationNew JerseyMessageMy most vivid memory of learning about the Holocaust was going to the Museum in D.C. in 1994 when I was a freshman in college. It was the most thought-provoking, heart-wrenching yer inspiring visit of my life. Since then I'm against anti-Semitism towards any Jew. I plan to make a donation to your museum and plan to visit again very soon. God bless America!! |
NameROXY2009-05-06 12:11 PM |
LocationMOTHER EARTHMessagei have just finished this amazing book in my class called the devil's arithmetic and it is one of the most amazing books that i have ever read. i had never understood how horrible the holochoust was until i got deeper into it with this amazing book.it was about this 13 year old girl who gets transported back in time and has to live in the holochoust.she didnt understand how imortant it was to be jewish back then and learned a great lesson that i thought was amazing. this book has helped me to understand how strong these people were and how greatfull we should be now for the freedom that we have. |
NameJanice Fialka2009-05-05 10:23 AM |
MessageI have been studying the "forgotten victims" of the Holocaust, the disabled who were sterilized and murdered under what was called the T4 so called euthanasia operation. Thousands of people with disabilites were killed using many different methods including gas showers which were the prototype of the gas chambers used the concentration camps. I am saddened and outraged that so little attention is paid to the disabled, including over 5,000 children with disabilities who were killed under the Third Reich. I am saddened that the President who I deeply respect did not mention disability in his speech at the Holocaust commemoration. We must continue to speak out for ALL. As Dan Wilkins says, "A community that excludes even one member is not a community at all." Next year, may all people be noted in the speeches. Thank you for listening. |
NameHaley2009-05-05 12:22 AM |
LocationArizonaMessageIn class we made masks representing things about tolerance towards others. Everything you put on your mask had to resemble something having to do with tolerance. Tolerance is the acceptance of others no matter what their differences are from yourself! |
NameSherry2009-05-02 07:08 PM |
LocationNYMessageWe held a memorial Yom HaShoah service complete w/Jewish War Veteran's Color Guard. The Childrens choir performed and the teens recited passages of the victims( children) who perished in Holocaust. A survivor spoke and the victims and surviivors present in our synagogue lit the symbolic 6 yahrzeit candles in memory of the six million. Three other Rabbis participated and it was an overflowing crowd that assembled. We hold a similar service every year for the victims and survivors. |
Nameaustin h2009-04-29 08:42 PM |
MessageI learned a lot about tolerance and the holocaust lately. One of the main things I have learned is that tolerance is so important and it is very hard to be tolerant always. I hope that nothing like the holocaust will ever happen again. I will always do my best and try to stop anything bad that happens. I will never forget about it and will always remember the Jews. |
NameBrooke Wolf2009-04-29 01:15 PM |
LocationArizonMessageI am a 8th grader at Cocopah Middle School. We have been recently participating in a project called the FACE TOLERANCE project. It is a project in which you open your heart to tolerance through art. In the project we constructed masks by placing vasiline on our faces and had our partner plaster our face. When the plaster dried we slowly pulled the masks off. The masks were then decorated having to do with tolerance. The masks constructed by artist and scuplter Jennifer Forman Weinstein may be placed in the Holocaust Memorial Museum of the survivors and there families of the Holocaust. |
Namearanna2009-04-29 03:59 AM |
LocationazMessageIn my 8th grade class , we have had the privilege to make masks referring to the Holocaust and tolerance.i have learned a lot about what tolerance really means. I think that middle school through high school students should be able to do this project to learn more about the Holocaust and what tolerance is all about. |