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Andover Students Educate
Classmates About Holocaust

Keri Guten Cohen
Story Development Editor

T

he 14 or so students in Mary
Blair's History of the Holocaust
class at Bloomfield Hills
Andover High School took action last
week to ensure that other students
know about the Holocaust.
"We received a brochure about
Holocaust Remembrance Week from
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills; as students lucky
enough to take the class, we felt we had
the responsibility to educate all in the
school so something like the Holocaust
could never happen again," said sopho-
more Blake Perlman.
The students — Jewish and of other
faiths — divvied up responsibilities
and went to work. They designed post-

ers to hang in the hallways, created a
T-shirt that sold for $12, with $2 from
each sale going to the HMC. And they
scheduled three local Holocaust sur-
vivors to speak to students, with their
talks also open to the public.
"It's the first time a full 'Days of
Remembrance Week' has been done at
Andover," Perlman said.
Holocaust survivors who spoke were
Jack Gun and Dr. Jack Wayne, grand-
fathers of Andover students who have
spoken to students in previous years,
and Martin Lowenberg.
"There are many reasons why I
believe it's important to come speak to
you:' Gun told students. "The main rea-
son is because it's a lot easier for kids
to understand from someone who lived
it other than from a textbook. Another
reason is because you kids are the last

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Members of Andover's History of the
Holocaust class coordinated "Days of
Remembrance Week."

generation to hear a survivor speak and
it's important that you pass the teach-
ings on to your children to understand
and know it existed."
Blair said, "This is such an important
event for a variety of reasons. First, it is
critical to remember the horrors of the
past so that we, as the future genera-
tion, can learn to be ethically responsi-
ble global citizens. Secondly, the theme
this year celebrates the rescuers, those
that chose to do what was right no mat-
ter what the cost. This lesson is critical
to teach to the youth of this country,
that their actions do matter. Hopefully,
altruism will be a guiding ideology
throughout their lives.
"Finally, this week has taught my
students the value of working together
to accomplish a goal. It has taught them
life experiences that they will never
forget. It has bonded them and drawn
them closer to one another. It has been
inspiring as an educator to see the
students working so passionately to
educate their peers while simultane-
ously honoring the victims, survivors,
rescuers and liberators:' she said.
"I believe my participation in
Andover's Days of Remembrance
Week is far more meaningful than any
other in-school event or activity I've
been a part of' said senior Kimberly
Bradley, one of Blair's students. "My
choice to remember those who endured
such monumental, unimaginable
circumstances allows me to not only
appreciate my own, but also to have
compassion for those in the world who
continue to suffer." ❑

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