Editor’s Choice: 6 Million Recalled With Stamps
Special education teacher Janna Freishtat (left) and English teacher Cyndie Fagan have been instrumental in moving the Six Million Stamps Project forward. Image by Melissa Gerr
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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.”
Read the full story at the Baltimore Jewish Times.
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