Please join me in welcoming a special visitor to IS 141!
On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Mrs. Elly Berkovits Gross will speak with our school community about her experiences during The Holocaust.
When Elly was 15 years old, she and her family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Elly managed to survive. Afterwards, she learned that her father perished in a forced-labor camp.
Elly Gross has devoted her life to sharing her story with others, so that the world may never forget the horrors of The Holocaust, and the dangers of turning a blind eye to the suffering of others, and discrimination. She is a mesmerizing speaker who has given presentations in museums and schools throughout the world, a gifted poet and prose writer, and an expressive painter.
Let's come together for an important day of remembrance!
