Hershel Greenblat, a Cobb County resident and Holocaust survivor, attended the Cobb County School Board’s monthly meeting this week. Greenblat also went to the September board meeting, where several members of Cobb’s Jewish community spoke about recent incidents of anti-Semitic symbols and language found on walls at two high schools.
“As a survivor, I’m here to bear witness to a time in history which began with so many small acts of biased attitudes: fear, stereotyping and misinformation,” Greenblat said at this month’s meeting. “Left unchecked, there was discrimination, violence, assaults and eventually genocide. Let us not sweep these recent acts of graffiti and vandalism under the rug.”
Greenblat invited the board to visit the William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum to have a guided tour of the Holocaust exhibit. He also urged the district to reinstate the Anti-Defamation League’s “No Place for Hate” curriculum, which focuses on inclusion in schools.
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