Creating a tribute to Holocaust victims

In honor of Holocaust victims, Sruli Fruchter, a junior at Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere, and several other students produced “In Living Memory,” a journal that included articles recounting the stories of relatives and other tales.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, the students also heard from Shimon Felder, the grandfather of DRS junior Jesse Felder. Shimon, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, delivered an account of how he survived through the horrors he experience. School officials called it “a beautiful and powerful message” of trust in God.

Fruchter presented the journal after Shimon spoke, and explained why he wanted to put it together. “I wanted to offer students the chance to honor those they knew who suffered this tragic, inhumane time,” Fruchter said. “Some victims of the Holocaust had to watch as their families were torn before their eyes, their loved-ones taken, never to be seen again.”