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Remembering,
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Student-run
program focuses
on Holocaust
education, hatred
any. tolerance.
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Staff Writer
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olemn-faced visitors were exit-
ing the Berkley High School
auditorium, some with tears in
their eyes.
They had just viewed a presentation
aimed at educating them about the hor-
rors of the Holocaust and the hatred
that still exists in the world. It happened
Feb. 7 during the school's fifth annual
Holocaust Education Curriculum pro-
gram.
The program included watching One
World, a documentary video including
interviews with Holocaust survivors pro-
duced by student Shira Stoorman, 15, of
Huntington Woods, with the assistance
of classmate Dayna Frenkel, 14, of Oak
Park.
With the program's dual-focus on
Holocaust education and world hatred,
the video served as a backdrop for stu-
dents presenting historical insights into
many tragedies. They spoke on the
Armenian, Bosnian and Native
American genocides and offered a pre-
sentation on World War II Japanese
relocation camps, the civil rights of
African Americans and the suffering of
the children of Iraq.
Presentations were interspersed with
student-performed music and ethnic
drum beats.
As the group viewed a Holocaust
museum set in the auditorium lobby,
they reacted to the photos and ongoing
documentaries and tapes of the
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Holocaust that were playing.
Curated by Emily Baker, 15, of
Huntington Woods, the museum also
included books, signs and posters, some
accumulated from the three previous
annual displays, and some on loan from
organizations or survivors and their fam-
ilies. Baker's own grandmother was
among them.
Clearly touched by the video presen-
tation, 15-year-old Laura Bayer toured
the museum with her father Jerry and
"The Sound Scul tors" musical group
with teacher Je Hartshorn, center,
perform an et nic drumbeat.
Top: Guitarist Ahmeed Ali presents a
musical number.
sister, Julia, 12. The Oak Park family
viewed a photo of shoes that remained
in a pile after their owners perished in a
concentration camp. Adjacent to it was
an actual heap of footwear assembled by
committee members to bring that reality
home.
Behind it, a sculpture created by stu-
dents of pottery teacher Jeff Hartshorn
was displayed. They included Lauris
brother, Jake Bayer, and Luke Koshkey,
Matt Konefke and John LaFranier.
Through bricks labeled with names of
concentration camps, lit candles and a
single rose, it was a poignant glimpse