'Adopt a Survivor' of the Holocaust
CCJU hosts the memorial exhibit at the Pitt Center
Laura Smith
Issue date: 9/18/08 Section: News
Are you wondering what's set up in the William H. Pitt Center lobby?
Well, if you stop and look, you'll see that it's an exhibit set up to showcase the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program.
Sacred Heart University's Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding has sponsored this showcase in hopes of spreading a greater learning of the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program.
According to information posted on the exhibit, Irving Roth, Director of the Holocaust Resource Center in Manhasset, N.Y. created this program in 1998.
Roth is a survivor of the Holocaust and felt that creating a program where Hebrew high school students adopt a survivor will help educate others.
Eight students from MAKOM Hebrew High School, in New Haven, were selected and then paired up with eight Holocaust survivors in the southern Conn. area.
According to United Jewish Communities of Metrowest New Jersey's Web site, the students meet with the survivor at least four times where they keep journals and eventually format a visual presentation about their adopted survivor.
The boards that are created are made of the survivors past and present photos, their families and experiences before, at and after the concentration camps.
For further information on the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program, visit the exhibit in the Pitt Center and learn more about these experiences.
Well, if you stop and look, you'll see that it's an exhibit set up to showcase the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program.
Sacred Heart University's Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding has sponsored this showcase in hopes of spreading a greater learning of the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program.
According to information posted on the exhibit, Irving Roth, Director of the Holocaust Resource Center in Manhasset, N.Y. created this program in 1998.
Roth is a survivor of the Holocaust and felt that creating a program where Hebrew high school students adopt a survivor will help educate others.
Eight students from MAKOM Hebrew High School, in New Haven, were selected and then paired up with eight Holocaust survivors in the southern Conn. area.
According to United Jewish Communities of Metrowest New Jersey's Web site, the students meet with the survivor at least four times where they keep journals and eventually format a visual presentation about their adopted survivor.
The boards that are created are made of the survivors past and present photos, their families and experiences before, at and after the concentration camps.
For further information on the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program, visit the exhibit in the Pitt Center and learn more about these experiences.
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