Wings of Love Mirror Lake Elementary Never Forgets

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Wings of Love – MIRROR LAKE ELEMENTARY NEVER FORGETS

Mirror Lake Elementary recently honored the memory of the lives lost in the Holocaust during “Holocaust Education Week”. The remembrance is held annually the second week of November which coincides with the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Also known as“Night of Broken Glass”, the major turning point in the persecution of European Jews by the Nazi regime occurred November 9-10, 1938.

The Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education sent a variety of resources to assist K-12 educators in structuring their Holocaust Education Week lessons. In addition to providing these resources to educate students about the Holocaust, Principal Mrs. Marlen Veliz, set up a display in the teacher workroom to show her gratitude to their commitment to not only educate about historical facts but to teach students how to treat and care for each other. She gave all her teachers and staff butterfly heart bookmarks as another token of appreciation.

By Beverly Perkins

“We have bookmarks in the workroom with a butterfly inside a heart to represent the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust and to thank you for your commitment to educating our children about tolerance, acceptance, and love for each other,” expressed Principal Veliz.

She also asked teachers to have their students create butterflies and read the poem ‘The Butterfly’ by Pavel Friedman. The beautifully written poem gives a voice to those that perished in the Holocaust.

“…That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don’t live here in the ghetto.”

Besides the poem, a sample of butterfly artwork from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was posted in the hallway outside the guidance counselor’s office. The artwork on display was created by 1st and 2nd graders from a Jewish school in Vienna, Austria before the teacher, Gertrude Winter, and nearly all her students were deported and killed in the Holocaust. Winter saved these drawings, and they were preserved and replicated on cards to preserve the spirit and memory of these children who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

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