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Video: Riverside Middle Students Remember Holocaust Hero

Hale Edwards' social studies classes make and fly kites in honor of Dr. Janusz Korczak.

Children from Riverside Middle School participated in a Holocaust remembrance activity Thursday that was being shared across the world. 

Children from Hale Edwards' 7th grade social studies class and Teryn Traynham's French class honored Dr. Janusz Korczak, a Polish doctor and writer who perished in the Holocaust. 

The kids flew kites outside the school Thursday that had quotes from Korczak written on them to honor and remember the doctor, who directed an orphanage in Warsaw when the Nazi's took control of the country. 

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Korczak refused multiple chances at his own freedom to stay at the side of the orphans he cared for so much, and ultimately died after following the children to the Tremblinka extermination camp. 

Edwards said the exercise was part of IEARN, the International Education And Resource Network, so classes across the globe were participating in the remembrance activity. 

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"Children across the world are doing the exact same thing along with us," Edwards said. 

"He's an unsung hero of the holocaust," she added. "This is a fun way to learn about someone who sacrificed so much."

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