FEATURE: "Will You Remember?" (Holocaust) {Event offers youngsters lessons from the Holocaust} Robert King

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Event offers youngsters lessons from the Holocaust

Remembrance is called 'imperative' as a way to preserve history, values

Apr 30, 2011  |  

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Written by

Robert King 
robert.king@indystar.com

• FILED UNDER
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• Faith & Values

If you go

» What: "Never Again: A Walk for Respect and Understanding," a Holocaust remembrance event.

» When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.

» Where: Arthur M. Glick JCC, 6701 Hoover Road.

» Cost: Free.

» Info: www.jccindy.org (under special events).

Curious George, the beloved character of children's books, might seem to be an unlikely feature of an event that aims to remember 11 million people, including six million Jews, who perished during the Holocaust at the hands of Nazi Germany.

But the story of how an early manuscript of the book helped its Jewish authors escape the Nazis is one of the ways local Jewish organizations hope to make a connection with local children with regard to one of the darkest periods in human history.

"Never Again: A Walk for Respect and Understanding," a Holocaust remembrance event Sunday at the Arthur M. Glick JCC, aims to teach lessons about this difficult story to children ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade.

There will be anti-bullying messages and dramatic portrayals of death camp survivor and author Elie Wiesel and a Danish child telling the story of how his grandfather ferried fleeing Jews to safety

Also planned is a visit to the JCC Holocaust memorial, where visitors will be take part in the Jewish tradition of putting a rock on the memorial as a symbol of remembrance. It is a walk in the sense that the event will take place in various stations around the JCC's grounds.

The event, sponsored by several local Jewish organizations, precedes by a few hours the start at sundown of Yom Hashoah, the one-day international remembrance of the Holocaust.

Bringing the Holocaust home to children is a challenge, says Marcia Goldstein, director of lifelong learning for the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, one of the sponsoring organizations. But finding ways to remember, she said, is "imperative" for those victims with no living survivors and as an antidote to future genocides.

"When you take the Holocaust and boil it down, it happened because people stopped looking at the humanity of the other person," Goldstein said. "We are trying to instill in the kids the importance of the other person and how we can make a difference in the world."

Call Star reporter Robert King at (317) 444-6089.

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