Every Life Remembered Our Journey How It Started and Why At Ventura Park Public School, 6B and 6C wanted to explore the power of one individual's story and learn more about History. Our teachers invited Child Survivors from the Holocaust to share their personal stories with us. Each session w as filmed by a videographer so we could document this special journey. After learning about the horrors of World War II, we decided that we wanted to spread awareness throughout the province about this terrible time. Out main objective was to make sure this never happens again! Speaking With Survivors In order to raise awareness of the atrocities of war, the grade sixes needed to learn as much as possible about what happened during this time period. We started off by speaking to Holocaust Child survivors: Joe Gottdenker, Sally Waserman, Anita Ekstein and Bob Czincz. They all shared their experiences with us in great detail. From their stories, we learned that many people were hidden during the war, many were just babies and many were sent to Concentration Camps. Gathering Research To further our knowledge and make this project even more meaningful, we needed to study this period in history. Our teachers took us on a trip to the Holocaust Centre of Toronto. While there, we had the opportunity to heat a personal story from another Holocaust Survivor and learn from the display of pictures and artifacts from the war. It was a most memorable experience. Taking Action Once we heard the stories of the Holocaust Survivors, we know that we needed to take action and share with others what we had learned. After brainstorming together, we decided to create a Multi-Media Educational Package called Every Life Remembered that could be used in schiils, libraries, museums and community centers. So that it would appeal to everyone., we thought we would present our message in a variety of forms.
1. Story Writing Each student brought in and old shoe. That shoe became the base of the main character. Paula David and our teachers told us to "put out selves in the shoe" of the person who could have worn it. Some of us became a righteous gentile, a victim, and even a Nazi. We then wrote historical fictional stories about this character experiencing a war. To honor those victims whose lives were lost, we dedicated our stories to people who lived through the war. We still needed to add more to our multi-media teaching tool… 2. Music Working with Robbie Roth We brought in singer/songwriter Robbie Roth to help us write the perfect song! We talked about chords and the mood we wanted to convey. Next, we started to write the lyrics with Robbie and out teachers. It took us a few sessions, but we are so proud of the final product!!! The piece is entitled Every Life Remembered and it is based on the stories we wrote. Hearing the song makes us all think back to the tragedies of War. 3. The Studio On May 4, 2004 our classes took a trip to VESPA Recording Studio to record our song Every Life Remembered . We were pleasantly surprised at the quality of the studio and enjoyed the company of the staff at VESPA. All the students were ecstatic when they heard their voices being recorded. This was a once in a lifetime experience that we will NEVER forget! 4. Bringing Our Stories To Life For the art aspect of our project, we analyzed our stories and picked the scene that represented and gave the viewer a good idea of the setting, climax and mood of our stories. Using the shoes that were given to us, we created representational drawings of the thoughts and feelings of our main characters in our stories. 5. A Walk In Someone Else's Shoes

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