Remember_the_Children_Day

by Nancy Rebore
 * Remember the Children Day

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 * This year, our 10th grade students in Global Studies learned about civil wars, genocides, and human rights abuses around the world. Using information garnered in Global Studies classes as a springboard, the library developed an interdisciplinary project: Global Connections, Teen to Teen: Imprints On Our Souls. In 10th grade English classes, students read memoirs written by young people who had endured war and turmoil during their childhood and teenage years. In art classes, students designed book covers and created paintings inspired by passages taken from the memoirs. The culminating event of our year-long project was “Remember the Children Day” on April 29th. Our featured speakers, a genocide survivor team, shared their experiences, using themes of tolerance, respect, compassion, and acceptance, themes which we in Uniondale also embrace. **
 * Jacqueline Murekatete is a 23-year-old survivor of the Rwandan Genocide, a horrific experience she endured at the age of nine in which her entire family was wiped out. David Gerwitzman, 79, was only 11 years old in Poland in 1939 when Nazis began to exterminate Jewish residents. **
 * Three 10th grade students, who were at the presentations, Alaina, George, and Patrick, have shared their thoughts and ideas on the [|Library Knight Light podcast] in response to the following questions: **
 * 1) ** How would you compare reading a book written by a genocide survivor or watching a movie like Shindler’s List or Hotel Rwanda to listening to the speakers on Remember the Children Day? **
 * 1) ** How have the books that you’ve read for “Global Connections, Teen to Teen: Imprints On Our Souls” and the words of our presenters at UHS on Remember the Children Day forged imprints on your souls? **
 * 1) **  How does someone like Adolf Hitler get so many people to abandon fundamental moral principals to carry out these unspeakable crimes on humanity? **
 * 1) ** Was there a time when you almost gave up? What gave you the strength to go on? **
 * 5. “Never Again” is a phrase that has been used around the world since the Holocaust. Dr. Samantha Power, Pulitzer- winning author of books on human rights and genocides, is currently writing a book titled, “Again and Again”, dealing with American responses to genocides since the Holocaust. How can we stop genocides that are happening today and prevent others? **