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ADRIEN CHANDLER
Special to The Jewish News
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or Mark Lively's world history class,
Holocaust was hardly more than some
words printed on the pages of a text-
book. As part of the class unit on
World War I, the students studied the rise of
Nazism and the attempts to systematically
destroy an entire group of people.
This was a horrible story describing long-
ago atrocities so remote and unfathomable,
and so unlike their modern day experiences,
that it was easy for the teen-agers to be
detached.
But the students, from Summerfield High
School in Petersburg, 25 miles south of Ann
Arbor, aren't so detached anymore. They
recently spent the better part of a bright, sun-
ny morning touring the Holocaust Memorial
Center in West Bloomfield.
"The visual part of this tour is excellent,"
says Mr. Lively, who has now brought three of
his classes to the HMC. "And some of the
details they get are more than I could ever
give them in class. It's one thing to talk about
it, but it's another to actually see it and feel
it."
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Docent Donna Sklar speaks to students
of Roosevelt Middle School in Oak Park.
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