Elementary Students Celebrate Holocaust Remembrance With Projects

With Help of College Students, Fifth Graders Research WWII

Today is “Holocaust Remembrance Day,” and some elementary students in Superior have used the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to learn big lessons about the Second World War.

Fifth graders at Northern Lights School researched topics about the history of Europe before World War II.

With the help of college students, they made projects about various topics relating to the war, and the events leading up to the Holocaust.

“They’ve done things like a timeline of the events that led up to the Holocaust, they looked at pre-war Europe and the geography, they learned about what antisemitism is, where that whole idea comes from and how that all came about,” said fifth grade teacher Carrie Thompson.

Teachers hope this type of research can help teach important life lessons to the children.

“We use this is as a great lesson to talk to the kids about diversity, and respecting diversity, understanding that everyone is different, and we celebrate those differences,” Thompson said.

Some of the students also performed a short play about the events happening in Wisconsin during World War II.