Weber Middle Schoolers Walk To Raise Funds For Holocaust Education

PORT WASHINGTON, NY — 90-year-old Holocaust survivor Mark Schonwetter, the co-founder of the Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation, spoke at the Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School in May and finished the final leg of the school's participation in the Journey for the Living challenge.

Journey for the Living is raising money and building awareness for Holocaust education. Participants walk, run, or ride at least 15 miles during the month of May to represent the journey that the New Jersey resident walked in one night as a young boy, along with his sister and mother, to escape the Nazis of his hometown in Poland.

Together with his daughters Ann Arnold and Isabella Fiske, Schonwetter founded the non-profit MSHEF, the only foundation that funds educational grants to schools nationwide by provide learning materials and books, support field trips and programming into the classrooms to teach about the Holocaust.

Since its inception four years ago, the Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation has granted over $293,000, covering 31 states and reaching over 114,000 students. The money raised directly supports MSHEF Holocaust Education Grants for teachers across the country, including many at schools in Long Island and New York.