Lauren Fenech
Though they haven’t entered high school yet, Lauren Fenech is making sure her students understand the steps that can lead to genocide.
In her eighth grade language arts class at Inverness Middle School in Florida earlier this week, Fenech led her students in USC Shoah Foundation’s Pyramid of Hate activity. The activity integrates first-person testimonies from the Institute's Visual History Archive with the Pyramid of Hate, a curricular tool developed by the Anti-Defamation League for its A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute.
USC Shoah Foundation Records Testimonies About Current Anti-Semitism in Copenhagen
Unfortunately it is becoming an all too familiar scene: A man with a gun opened fire at a bat mitzvah celebration, killing a security guard and injuring two police officers.
Leaders of USC Shoah Foundation and its board of councilors were appalled by the act of violence in Copenhagen. They recognized that anti-Semitism was once again on the rise in Europe, and Jews were being targeted.
Lauren Fenech's Class, Inverness Middle School: Pyramid of Hate
Photo courtesy Lauren Fenech