Lawrence Woodmere Academy remembers the Holocaust

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Lawrence Woodmere Academy held a Holocaust Remembrance Day assembly on May 10 that commemorated the victims and survivors of the systematic killing of 6 million European Jews as well as 7 million other people under the Nazi Germany regime of the 1930s and ’40s.

At the assembly, students, parents and faculty contributed to the program of music, dance and testimony to express the losses endured during the Holocaust.
Colette B. Marzouk, who designs the assembly each year, structured the program around the lighting of six candles dedicated to the testimonies of different families. The seventh candle, a candle for hope, stood to communicate the individual responsibility placed on people to help today’s refugees and survivors never to lose hope. 

The assembly incorporated the tragedies of contemporary times and stressed the importance of being involved to bring about a better future.