With paper and charcoal, local students learn empathy for Holocaust survivors
Stick of charcoal in hand, an eighth-grader at San Francisco Catholic school École Notre Dame des Victoires sketches the thick mustache...
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May 23, 2022
Developing Empathy: O’Dowd Students Engage the Holocaust
Many people don’t realize how connected Judaism, Christianity and Islam are, but they are. “As a Catholic teaching Judaism, Islam,...
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Jan 23, 2020
Holocaust-era violins visit S.F. Catholic School
All were silent in the gymnasium at San Francisco’s all-girls Mercy High School while renowned violinist Hannah Tarley tuned her...
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Apr 3, 2019
Courage against injustice: Holocaust survivor, refugees tell their stories…
San Francisco's Mercy High School, in partnership with The Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust in Catholic...
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Feb 22, 2018
Helen Farkas – A day in the life
...Today, I must pick up Helen Farkas to take her to Mercy High School in San Francisco, where she will talk about her experiences in the...
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Jan 29, 2018
Helen Farkas dies at 97 — survivor who brought Holocaust education to local schools
Helen Farkas, an Auschwitz survivor who spent more than four decades serving as a living witness to the traumas of the Holocaust by...
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Jan 17, 2018
Holocaust survivor adds to legacy at early 100th birthday in S.F.
As a young woman struggling to survive the horrors of Auschwitz, Helen Farkas made a vow: If she lived, she would tell her story to the...
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Apr 29, 2016
Catholic educator makes survivors’ stories his life mission
Jim McGarry remembers the first time he heard a Holocaust survivor speak. It was in 1992 at a training session for local educators...
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Mar 25, 2016
Survivor, 93, tells her story at Catholic school
Lenci Farkas didn’t sleep well the night before she was to be honored at San Francisco’s Mercy High School. When the 93-year-old faced...
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Apr 11, 2014
Catholic students get firsthand lesson in never again
Gloria Lyon, 84, faced her audience and held up her arm, revealing a faded numeric tattoo. Showing that somber marking from Auschwitz...
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Mar 18, 2011
S.F. Catholic school honors courage and spirit of survivors
A hush fell over the auditorium as Holocaust survivor Zdena Berger took the stage. As the diminutive 86-year-old read aloud from two...
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