Forest Ridge Students Create Holocaust Museum

Each year Ann Gilbert's 8th grade students spend weeks studying the Holocaust and creating a museum for their fellow students, parents, and others to visit. For the past several years I have been invited to tour the museums. I am always so impressed with the students' creativity, knowledge, and passion for the subject. For the first time, this year's museum is set up throughout the campus - both outside and inside. The displays included timelines, video presentations, drawings, paintings, cutouts of life-sized figures, and a pile of shoes - all set in carefully crafted spaces.

Special thanks to Ann Gilbert and my two knowledgable and insightful docents yesterday.

Want to know more about this project? Ask Master Teacher Ann Gilbert - anngi@forestridge.org.

-Ilana Cone Kennedy, Director of Education

Welcome!

Welcome to the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center's new blog!

The Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, established in 1989. The Holocaust Center supports teachers in the public and private schools of Washington (and throughout the Pacific Northwest!) who want to introduce Holocaust studies into their curricula.

The Center provides educational materials, including resources that preserve local connections to the Holocaust for grades 5-12 through university levels.

It is through the study of the Holocaust that young people and adults learn about human behavior, social responsibility, moral courage, the importance of speaking out against intolerance, and the difference just one person can make.