During Holocaust Remembrance Week, East Meadow High School’s EPIC (Encouraging Pride in Israeli Culture) Club held various activities, including an assembly on the Holocaust for ninth through twelfth-grade students in social studies and Holocaust Studies classes.
The students, with the assistance of EPIC Club advisor Sherry Lombardo and club president Andrew Hochler, compiled a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation filled with sobering facts and scenes to heighten students’ awareness of this harrowing event in history.
In addition, members of the National Art Honor Society created a display to hang in the school’s lobby, entitled “The Art of the Holocaust.” EPIC students also created Holocaust displays, and Holocaust Studies students put together and presented a mini-museum exhibit depicting art of the Holocaust.
Senior student and cellist Aya Terki opened the assembly by performing the traditional “Kol Nidrei” (“Oh! Day of God”), accompanied on piano by chorale director Gloria Elliott.
The assembly was held in remembrance of not only the six million Jewish victims, but the five million non-Jewish victims as well.
Following the presentation, Holocaust survivor Irving (Yitzchak) Wargon, who was introduced by his son Morris (Moshe), gave an account of his experiences during the Holocaust, having been a prisoner for five years, eight months, and eight days. Russian soldiers rescued Mr. Wargon in Czechoslovakia on May 8, 1945. He concluded by stating, “It is my mission to tell the next generation about the Holocaust. Keep this memory alive. Tell them what you saw and what you heard.”
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