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Hewlett’s Troop 20 welcomes a former scout By AIDAN WARSHAVSKY awarshavsky@liherald.com
Courtesy Eugene Corless
BSA Troop 20 welcomed Marines veteran Rick Lorenz, center, who was a member of the troop from 1957 to 1960. Lorenz was given a challenge coin and shared his experiences with current troop members. He reflected on his years as a member of the troop and his time serving in the military.
For Cedarhurst native Rick Lorenz, being a Boy Scout was a foundational part of his life. He had an opportunity to pay that experience forward on Jan. 27, donating some of his military artifacts and patches to BSA Troop 20 in Hewlett. Lorenz shared his wisdom and stories with 20 scouts. Though he now lives in Tacoma, Wash., Lorenz, 79, was a member of Troop 20 from 1957 to 1960, when it was headquartered in Cedarhurst before disbanding in 2013. When Lorenz was a scout, troop meetings were held in the gym of what was then ConTinued on pAge 7
Hewlett students lead Kindertransport presentation By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hewlett High School freshmen Romy Fruman and Harley Moritz presented their Kindertransport project to students in grades five to seven at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Merrick last week. Jan. 27 marked 81 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was created by the United
Nations General Assembly in 2005, and is observed annually on that date, a global reminder of the dangers of hatred, bigotry and antisemitism, according to UN.org. When the Chabad students took their seats for the presentation on Jan. 28, they found nametags to wear, each with the name of a Kindertransport survivor. The Kindertransport was a rescue effort that relocated nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children from Nazi German to Great Britain between December 1938 and May 1940, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
“It was an incredible rescue mission just for kids,” Harley said. “Thousands of kids, mostly Jewish, were sent from dangerous countries such as Germany and Austria to safety in Britain before World War II.” Parents in those countries were given an option to send their children on the Kindertransport, and possibly never see them again, or keep them with them. “These children, some as young as 5 years old, had to board trains alone, with only one small suitcase or backpack,” Harley explained. Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker, organized foster
families in Britain, and saved the lives of 669 children that arrived from Czechoslovakia. “Because he chose to act and not stay silent, those children didn’t just survive,” Romy said. “They grew up to have families of their own. Today there are four generations of families living all across the world because of the children Nicholas Win-
ton saved.” The girls taught the younger students that one person could change the world, no matter how many people he or she saved. Years later, the writer Michael Bond was inspired by stories of the Kindertransport to create Paddington Bear, a ConTinued on pAge 11