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On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Levine Fifth Grade students participated in a very special pilot program coordinated by Jewish Family Service and Dr. Yaffe Podbelewicz-Weinberg. The program, The Legacy Project, connects students with Holocaust survivors.
Dr. Yaffe introduced the students to the program by sharing a story about the legacy of one of her patients and Holocaust survivors, Leni. Dr. Yaffe presented a dazzling blanket that Leni crocheted over a year’s time. The blanket, comprised of ten different bands of color, represented the different phases of Leni’s story of survival. The 100 squares represented the weeks she and her husband lived in hiding. Our Levine students were the first to touch this labor of love.
Students were assigned a Holocaust survivor to connect through pen pal writing opportunities and Jewish holiday card exchanges. Our students will be able to learn first-hand the stories of Upstanders and will better understand the amazing resilience of our Holocaust survivors.
The first step will be to send our pen pals mishloah manot with a hand-written card.
Thank you to Michael Zimmermann for bringing this amazing expression of chesed, an act of loving kindness, to our students -- and thanks to Principal Lawlor, Mrs. Okowita, and Mr. Rodriguez for incorporating this meaningful service opportunity into our students’ learning.
