Editor’s Choice: 6 Million Recalled With Stamps
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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By Melissa Gerr
Students at Mount Hebron High School are working to collect six million stamps in commemoration of the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. Said teacher Cyndie Fagan, “Each of those postage stamps tells a story, just like each person who died had a story.”
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