In the History Elective Class, "Holocaust, Genocide & Modern Humanity," students are learning about the “Stories Behind the Name," a virtual exhibit that is presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Students are exploring the website, observing photos, watching videos and learning the very personal stories of survivors, victims, bystanders and other witnesses of the Holocaust. As Holocaust Remembrance Day is Friday, January 27, which was the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, our students are creating class poems from the stories that they are reading and are reminding us to never forget what happened. Below is one of those poems created by the students during class this week.
We Must Remember
We must remember because if we don’t, hate wins,
because if we don’t remember, these stories of heroism and bravery will die,
because if we don’t remember when the whole world fought to stop evil, then evil laughs.
We must remember to honor the innocent lives lost due to such an awful human,
We must remember to know the warning signs,
We must remember because the people who were killed would want to know that their lives mattered,
We must remember so we can know what hate looks like so we can stop it in its tracks,
We must remember because behind millions of deaths, there are millions of stories to learn from,
We must remember because this might be happening again and we don't dare stand by and become the things we hate when we look away.
We will use our voices to tell their stories.
We will remember this horrible past to make a better future, for a better today, so we can be better people together.
We remember, on this day and everyday, we remember.
