Letter: Teaneck Shows Leadership in Holocaust Education

This past Thursday evening, I had the opportunity along with several dozen others to attend the formal dedication of the Holocaust Collection at Teaneck High School’s Media Center.

This outstanding community resource includes Holocaust-related books from two private libraries of Holocaust survivors and their families – The Friedman-Sieradski Family and the Ores Family. With the support of the Teaneck School District, these collections have been catalogued and placed in a beautiful, sunlit space within the Center by the High School’s Principal, Mr. Dennis Heck. They include histories, biographies, memoirs, memorial collections, art books and more. In the same area is a sculpture by noted Teaneck and New Jersey artist Milton Ohring, who donated it in memory of his grandparents, which evokes the victims of the killing fields in Poland.

As a Teaneck resident, a member of the “Second Generation”, and of the NJ State Commission on Holocaust Education, I am proud to say that Teaneck is again showing leadership in the area of Holocaust education, just as it did almost forty years ago when it pioneered the teaching of this important yet difficult subject in its schools.

Please join me in congratulating all that were a part of this great endeavor and I urge you all to visit the Collection whenever you are able to.

-- Yitz Stern

Yitz Stern is a Teaneck councilman and member of the New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education

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