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