Please visit the “Multimedia Selection,” “Yom Ha'Shoah 2008” and listen to Mrs. Anita Sarna and her son Ari (’08). Both spoke about their personal experiences with the Polish Pienkevich family. Zula Pienkevich risked her life and the lives of her family in order to hide and ultimately rescue Anita’s mother from the Nazis. Yad Vashem recognizes Zula Pienkevich as a Righteous Gentile...  

The program also included Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, who presented the case of Ms. Dina Babbitt. Ms. Babbitt is an artist who, while in Auschwitz, was commissioned by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele to paint portraits of gypsies. By doing as she was ordered, she saved her mother’s life. Today, Ms. Babbitt is making every effort to claim her portraits from the Polish government, which refuses to release them. Our seniors, who were in Poland, presented a petition to the Auschwitz Museum with 300 student signatures on behalf of Ms. Babbitt.

Watch the powerful film that tells her story and also listen to our choir’s beautiful rendition of “Kayli, Kayli.”