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money is used for the program. Ask about donating fleet cars! Please
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Mary Smolter’s seventh and eighth graders welcome Holocaust survivor Irene
Skolnick.
SAINT ALEXIS PREPARES FOR TRIP TO
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
In preparation for their field trip to the Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C., the students in seventh and eighth
grade at Saint Alexis Catholic School in McCandless Township
incorporated several learning aspects into their curriculum.
Mary Smolter, Middle School Social Studies teacher, introduced
the Holocaust to her students through a course of class discussions,
historical videos and testimonies. To reinforce her classroom lessons,
Smolter hosted Irene Skolnick, a Holocaust survivor. Skolnick shared
her story during an evening presentation at Saint Alexis Catholic
Church. Her family’s only chance of survival was to obtain false
papers and pass themselves off as Catholic Poles. Skolnick’s family left
the ghetto in Poland in 1942.
Students also heard a presentation from Jim Lucot, Seneca Valley
High School Honors U.S. History teacher and father of eighth grader
Tara Lucot. He shared his experiences and photos of his recent visit to
Poland and to the sites of concentration camps.
An annual field trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum
culminates this learning experience. “When you take what you learn
in the classroom and see the actual artifacts, students can better
understand the importance of this historical event. It’s good to teach
students that this is another part of what happened in the history of
our world,” says Smolter. n
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