Shulamith marks Yom Hashoah

Third and fourth graders of Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst took part in a Yom HaShoah commemoration last week.

In addition to lighting candles in memory of the kedoshim, the students performed songs, poems, and stories appropriate to the day. A skit about how the people of Denmark used fishing boats to rescue the Jews of their country was especially enlightening.

Mrs. Yoly Katz, great aunt of third grader Ellie Adler, shared with the students her story of survival as a fourteen-year-old girl. She described her family life and going to yeshiva before the war.

Mrs. Katz explained that her education was interrupted by the Shoah, but that after the war she was fortunate to come to America and resume her studies.

She shared her joy at seeing the children of Shulamith learning together in school, and instructed the girls to always be happy.