What I learned is that even though the Holocaust happened so long ago, there are still so many ways that the memories are living on. For example, in the article that I read this week, I learned about a Holocaust museum in LA that connects survivors of the Holocaust to high school students. The survivors tell their stories, and the students create art projects to express their thoughts. The program started because the teachers believe that students can express themselves more with art than with a conversation. The museum hangs their artwork up, so the memory of the Holocaust lives on.
Another thing that I learned is the Nicholas Winton, who saved 670 Jewish children during the Holocaust, died recently at 106 years old. The rescue mission that he started became known as the Czech Kindertransport. He put these children, who were in the Czech Republic, on a boat, and then onto a train into London. He then used his resources to find foster homes for these children. There were 250 more children that were supposed to go to London, but unfortunately, their train got stopped on the way. Nicholas was a Nobel Prize nominee and was even knighted by the Queen in 2003.
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