By Mariana Sanchez n/a [email protected] - Immaculate Conception School
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Immaculate Conception eighth-graders walk among stone plaques bearing the names of each of the Holocaust death camps.
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Immaculate Conception students get a close up look at the Sculpture of Love and Anguish in the Holocaust Memorial. The towering arm rises from the center to anchor the entire work. The arm bears more than 100 intertwined figures, each portraying its own testimony. It is encircled by other freestanding victims.
HIALEAH | Eighth graders from Immaculate Conception School recently visited the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach. The students have been studying World War II and the Holocaust in their social studies class and the field trip to the museum was the culmination of their studies.
The students started their tour viewing a sculpture inscribed with the following quote from Anne Frank: “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Student Brandon Arnold said seeing this in person instead of in a book made him “understand and look at everything differently.”
Later the students saw photographs with captions depicting the history of the Holocaust. They ended the tour at the “Dome of Contemplation” where an eternal flame bears an inscription from Psalm 23.
Eighth grader Diana Cao said the most fascinating part of the visit was listening to a Holocaust survivor tell the story of when he was seven years old and had to watch his father being taken away to a concentration camp.
As a result of this experience, many of the students came away with renewed appreciation for the importance of treating people equally and fairly, regardless of their beliefs.
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Eighth graders from Immaculate Conception School pose in the Garden of Meditation at the Holocaust Memorial. Rising behind them is the Sculpture of Love and Anguish that honors the victims by depicting their stories.
