More than 1,000 Jewish teenagers gathered last week to demonstrate the projects that they have been working on all year as part of a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) curriculum sponsored by a nonprofit organization.
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Stamford students become a voice for Holocaust survivors
S
iegmund Listwa had a lot to teach Julianne Katz and, admits Julianne, “I had a lot to learn.”
And learn she did recently, when the Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy Upper School junior participated in the school’s new Holocaust Fellowship program. Presented in conjunction with the Anachnu Holocaust Survivor program of the Schoke Jewish Family Service of Fairfield County, the Holocaust Fellowship program partners students at the Stamford school with survivors to record the survivors’ stories, followed by a school presentation.
“In March 2020, Schoke JFS and BCHA launched a program through which students were trained in Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed (PCTI) practices prior to interviewing survivors with whom they were partnered, with the goal of creating a live history theater,” explains Rebekah Kanefsky, Schoke JFS Director of Case Management and Family Life Education Coordina