Holocaust survivor visits Melican Middle School
By Mary Pritchard Contributing Writer

PHOTO/MARY PRITCHARD Melican Middle School eighth-graders Zac Allor, Samantha Sexton, Jacob List and Nive Ramesh meet with Holocaust survivor Janet Singer Applefield during her visit Jan. 17.

Northborough - Holocaust survivor Janet Singer Applefield visited Melican Middle School Jan. 17 and presented "Combating Hate and Prejudice" to all eighth-grade students at the school.

Applefield told students about her childhood and how she went from being a typical happy child in Poland to suddenly, at the age of 4, being separated from her parents.

During the Holocaust, while her mother was in a concentration camp and her father was sent to Krakow Ghetto, Applefield endured horrific living situations. She said she was "miraculously" reunited with her father and, at age 11, she and her father traveled to the United States, where they began a new life.

Applefield is still researching what happened to her mother, and she credited her father with teaching her to live without hate.

The visit was arranged by guidance counselor Lauren O'Neil as part of the eighthgrade English language arts unit on the Holocaust.