Students remember the Holocaust

Skyline High School students kicked off Holocaust Remembrance Day with the unveiling of an elaborate display.

The students spent more than 100 hours creating this poster, and they want to remind the community how this genocide that happened over 80 years ago, is still relevant today.

Holocaust Remembrance Day coincides with the uprising in the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto during WWII, and it officially starts tonight at sundown and goes through tomorrow at sundown.

These students are in Billie Wixom’s Holocaust elective class and thought of constructing this poster all on their own.

The students involved with this project had emotional moments connecting with the 6,865 names they wrote and seeing the camps where many of these victims died.

“It made such an impact and 12 million people is a lot of people and to not remember them and not do anything, sucks,” said senior Brizeyda Martinez-Sanchez.

Some 6,000,000 Jews and 6,000,000 others were killed during the Holocaust, and the names on this poster represent not even 1 percent of Holocaust victims.

“It just makes me kinda heartbroken that there’s this many people, it’s only a small fraction of it, but I’m just glad that I could make a difference. And seeing every student’s face as they read this, the shock is real,” said junior Brynlie Perkins.

The students worked very hard on this display, they even left additional space on the poster for others to write names.

“I could not be more proud these kids, I gave them just a glimmer of an idea to create an event and they came up with this, and it’s absolutely breathtaking to see what they have done,” says Wixom.

To the students’ best knowledge this is the first time they have done anything like this at the school, and they are so excited to be apart of something this impactful.

The high school’s Holocaust Remembrance Day activities continue throughout tomorrow evening.