Students who traveled to Poland last summer to learn about the Holocaust firsthand with Classrooms Without Borders have a mandate from Zipora Gur, the founder of the group: share your inspiration.
That’s why teens from Shady Side Academy, the Ellis School, and Winchester Thurston School presented a $1,040 check to students of the Urban Pathways Charter School, Wednesday, Dec. 5, during an evening of art, music and poetry called “Seeing Through: Reflections on the Holocaust.”
The check is the first of three installments of a $2,000 total gift, which will help pay for the Urban Pathways students to travel to Washington, D.C., in April for a visit to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Read more: The Jewish Chronicle