Freeport Students Discuss Book With ‘Partners’ in Israel

As part of the International Book-Sharing Project, students from Freeport High School and a high school in Israel have been reading the classic Holocaust autobiographical book Night by Elie Wiesel, which describes the author’s experience as a young boy swept up in the Holocaust during World War II and enduring the horrors of a concentration camp where his parents and sister were killed.

In January, Lana Bernhardt, Colorado-based U.S. Coordinator for the project, spoke to students in Wendy Lindner’s Psychology class. Bernhardt complimented the students for their active participation in sharing their reactions to the book, and information about themselves, with their Israeli counterparts. “The opportunity to share histories is very special,” she said, adding that the freedom to express themselves in open discussion is a freedom that students in non-democratic countries do not have.