Quick Take: Students and Holocaust Survivors Work Together
As part of the Museum’s Bringing the Lessons Home (BTLH) program, high school “ambassadors” interview Holocaust survivors. Together, they work to depict the survivor’s story visually using acrylic on canvas. In this photograph by Museum intern and BTLH ambassador Winston Dunkley II, Joshua Hewitt laughs with Harry Markowicz as they work together to convey Markowicz’s testimony. A Museum volunteer, Markowicz was born in Berlin in 1937 and survived the Holocaust hidden with a family in Belgium. A second-year BTLH ambassador, Hewitt is a high school junior from southern Maryland. The annual Art and Memory Project takes place in an art classroom of School Without Walls at Francis Stevens in Washington, DC. Each year, a new class of ambassadors works with the Holocaust survivors, then takes the lessons they’ve learned and the survivor’s testimony back to their unique communities.
This article was first published in Fall 2017.
