On Monday April 28th, the students the Elementary and Junior High School will 
participate in the observance of Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Memorial Day. Candle lighting memorial assemblies will take place for students in grades 2-4 and 5-8. General studies teachers of grades 2 -5 will conduct class discussions appropriate for the grade level and sensitivities of their students.
In addition to the ceremony, students in the Junior High School will hear a first person account from Professor Suzanne Vromen
who was a "hidden child" during the war. She will relate her wartime experiences in Belgian convents and her escape to the Belgian Congo. Dr. Vromen has been a Holocaust scholar for the past forty years.
On Tuesday morning April 29th, a guest speaker from Yad Vashem will present to students in grades 4-8.
Our Yom Hashoah observance at BPY this year will also mark the launch of the Ida Wider Maintaining a Caring Community Holocaust Studies Program at BPY. Through this program, BPY students will explore lessons of the Holocaust through a variety of lenses integrated into age-appropriate curricula beginning in grade 4. Units will include understanding differences, anti-Semitism, propaganda, stereotypes, friendship, and social pressures. We are grateful to the Gurevich family for dedicating this program in memory of their beloved aunt, Ida Wider z"l, who was herself a survivor of the Shoah.
