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Article: TREE-PLANTING HONORS CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST MAPLE OFFERED HOPE IN GHETTO.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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- February 9, 2001
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Byline: Stephen Huba Post staff reporter
They can see a forest from a tree.
The new Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education at Hebrew Union College is hosting a tree-planting at 10 a.m. Sunday that officials hope will launch the planting of a Holocaust memorial forest in Israel.
The tree-planting, the first major public event for the Holocaust center since its opening in September, was inspired by a little-known incident that occurred in a Jewish ghetto outside Prague, Czechoslovakia, during World War II.
''We felt it was a story that needed to be told and modeled,'' said center director Racelle Weiman.
Helping to tell the ...