5th Year History student, Maeve Crossan, writes in detail about the impact of Tomi Reichental's lecture to senior students on Tuesday, 25th November.
On the 25th November, we were visited by Tomi Reichental, a Holocaust survivor. He felt that as one of the last remaining survivors that he had to share his story and we were very thankful that he did. Hearing it from an eye-withness made it much more real than when you read it in a book.
He spoke of how he avoided those who tried to take his family to camps, of how old friends betrayed them and what the camps were like. The most memorable thing he spoke of was how the other children, as well as himself, would play amongst stacks of bodies in the forest; that the stench didn't bother them after a while. It gave us an idea of how dehumanised the people there became.
Maeve Crossan, 5thYear
Post Script
On Saturday, 6th December Tomi Reichental was awarded International Person of the Year 2014 at the RTÉ Person of the Year Awards. The Student Council, on behalf of everyone at Stratford College, sent him a congratulations card.
In the run up to the state exams, Stratford's Wellbeing Team draws your attention to the suite of resources on gov.ie under the heading of Wellbeing support for Exam Students, Parents and School Staff.
As is tradition at this time of year, the annual rounders game took place between our outgoing 6th Years and Teachers. Despite great efforts by our 6th years and some fabulous play, Teachers came out victorious. Fair play to all who played in this game.
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Congratulations to our prize winners at our end of year assembly. Awards including attendance, student of the year and the Principal's Junior & Senior student award for this academic year.
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