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Temple Emanu-El presents a family second-night Seder Community Day students hear from Holocaust survivor

uring the summer of 2019, historical view provided by Canadian cluding St. Martha Catholic School, not only to serve as an anchor point for

Hershorin Schiff Commu- Howard Chandler, a survivor of the Cardinal Mooney and Community studies on civil rights and genocide,
Dnity Day School’s chair of its dark time. Day School. He told his story: of life but also to drive home the lesson that
middle school social studies program, Ruben says Chandler’s commen- in his village, how his family was tak- students must be ready to resist injus-
Leslie Ruben, participated in “Poland tary really drove home the lessons of en by the Nazis, how he never again tice at its inception.
Personally,” a program of Classrooms the Holocaust for the Poland Person- saw his mother and younger brother “A society doesn’t just jump to
Without Borders (sponsored by The ally participants, most of whom were after their “selection day,” and his concentration camps – it starts small,”
Jewish Federation of Sarasota- not Jewish. story of survival of the Auschwitz con- said Ruben. “It’s important to show
Manatee). Ruben traveled with a In February, Chandler was brought centration camp. Then the students students that how people treat each
group of educators to Poland to learn to our community to speak to students – in grades 6-8 – peppered him with other, when civil rights are violated,
about the Holocaust, with a firsthand at several area private schools, in- questions. and when a society starts stoking a fear

Ruben says the firsthand account of ‘the other,’ that this can be linked to

of the horrors of the Holocaust helps genocides such as the Holocaust.”

Community Day School students listen intently to Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler’s presentation
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Community Day School teacher Snait Ben-Herut chats with special guest Howard Chandler

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