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Cold Spring Harbor High School Students Interview Lindner Holocaust Survivors | |
Students Create Documentary for National Contest
Students from Cold Spring Harbor High School recently visited the Fay J. Lindner Residences to meet with several residents who are Holocaust survivors. The four residents, Estelle Alter, Herman Gancz, Marcus Streim and Ed Zola, were videotaped discussing their personal experiences during the Holocaust. The students plan to turn these interviews into a short film, which will be entered into the "Speak Truth To Power" student video competition, which encourages middle and high school students to become engaged in human rights. 
The students have chosen to profile Elie Wiesel as a Human Rights Defender. They will honor his work by creating the video to memorialize the messages of the survivors, and using it to educate young people about the Holocaust.
"Speak Truth To Power" began as a book written by Kerri Kennedy, and in 2010 was launched as an online curriculum in New York which aims to teach students about human rights through the lives of modern day heroes in the field-the Martin Luther Kings and Mahatma Gandhis of today. The primary goal of the curriculum is to get students to self-identify as human rights defenders by taking on active roles in the work of creating a more just and peaceful world.
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Introducing Lorraine Durst
 Perseverance means different things to different people. For Lorraine Durst, the daughter of a Polish immigrant who raised two daughters on her own while working three jobs to provide for them, it begins with patience.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lorraine took odd jobs, even giving up a college scholarship, to help her mother support the family after her father passed away when she was 12, and her sister was seven. One passion kept Lorraine going despite their struggles: books. Even though her mother's own education was limited after emigrating from Poland to Ohio at the age of 17 (one of only four surviving family members to escape the Holocaust), she instilled in her daughters the need for and love of education.
Six weeks after marrying, Lorraine and her new husband Sandy moved to Germany, where they worked for the US government from 1955 to 1958. Once back in the United States, Lorraine returned to school, taking one class at a time while raising two sons, earning her Bachelor's degree in Library Science over the span of 14 years! With Sandy now an established lawyer and the boys in school, Lorraine was free to study and she went on to earn her Master's degree and complete post graduate work in Library Science. After years in the public school system, she developed a curriculum for Holocaust studies that was accepted by the American Society for Yad Vashem, to make sure that history would not be forgotten in our schools.
Today, Lorraine continues to share her love of reading with our community. She has helped to create and run the "Books in a Box" program here at Lindner with staff from the Commack Public Library. Once a month, library personnel set up tables in our lobby, providing books to borrow as well as to keep for those who find it more difficult to get out, especially during the winter months. They also provide books by special request. In addition, Lorraine combines patience and kindness as she visits our Enriched Pathways residents, reading aloud, telling stories and speaking fluently in Yiddish with those who can no longer communicate in English.
Lorraine believes that we all need more patience, and serves as an example of compassion each and every day.
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| February is National Heart Month | |
Exercise for a Healthy Heart
February is National Hearth Month and one way to keep our hearts  healthy is to exercise. According to the American Heart Association, it is suggested that individuals aim to exercise thirty minutes a day, five times a week. However, according to the American Heart Association, you will also experience benefits if you exercise several times a day for shorter intervals, such as two or three times for 10 -15 minutes each time daily.
Even if you cannot exercise thirty minutes daily, it is always better to aim to do some type activity each day such as stretching, playing a sport, taking exercise classes like Tai Chi or just walking.
For more information, check out the American Heart Association website at www.heart.org .
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To learn more about the Gurwin Jewish ~ Fay J. Lindner Residences,
or to arrange a tour,
contact Staci Rosenberg-Simons at (631) 715-8537
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