Twenty-one eighth-grade students in Yvonne Janik's TAG English class were invited to Richardson Oct. 26 to hear Rwandan genocide survivor Clementine Wamariya. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum education staff taught the forum and brought Wamariya to Richardson to share her testimony.

Wamariya, now a Yale undergraduate, shared her memories of escaping the 1994 genocide as a 6-year-old, the loss of her extended family and her struggle to survive.  Click HERE to read more.

The program was part of a three-day educator forum conducted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the students' participation served as a prelude to the eighth-graders' study of Holocaust themes during the spring semester.

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