By: Olivia Kogan
On May 5th, students taking Global Human Rights and some students from the World Cultures class had the opportunity to visit the 38th Annual Teen Symposium on the Holocaust at the Hilton in Scranton.
The Teen Symposium on the Holocaust is a full day program from 8:30 to 1:30, that explained causes and effects of the Holocaust, along with giving students the opportunity to meet with survivors of the Holocaust. Additonally, students got the chance to hear Alan Moskin, an American GI in the 66th Infantry of General George Patton’s 3rd Army, who liberated Gunskirchen concentration camp (a subcamp of Mauthausen). “Meetings with these witnesses bring insights and understanding that only such “living history” can bring to those who hear firsthand testimony. Sessions with survivors are the core of the day.” (Jewish Federation of NEPA)
Students heard the story of Mark Schonwetter, a young Jewish boy in Poland, who survived the Holocaust with his mother and sister, by hiding in forests and in homes of Polish families, where they where able to ask a multitude of questions.
