On November 25th, The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, posted an article about a project being done by seventh-grade students at Horn Lake Middle School. The students are studying World War II and are focusing on the Holocaust.
The article reports that:
"On Monday, students were on the receiving end of a speech from an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor.
""Lovely lady," Powell said. "Many of the children are the same age (12) that the survivor was when she was taken from her home. They would feel her pain if they were moved and their family members were killed. She knew immediately that her parents were sent to the concentration camp.""
The children in the seventh-grade class are collecting 1.5 million pennies, each penny to represent a child killed in the Holocaust. The pennies are to be used in an online museum.
Power Line shared this story today with the following note:
"The link sent along by Ms. Powell is to the Memphis Commercial Appeal article on her class project. A friend who forwards Ms. Powell's message comments: "Anything we can do... promoting their effort (and helping the kids get the pennies) would be a mitzvah." The school's address is: 6125 Hurt Road, Horn Lake, MS 38637-2399."
What an innovative way to make a horrible part of history real.
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