Holocaust survivor to meet students in swastika party photo
UPDATE: 3/7/2019 12:57 p.m. The stepsister of Anne Frank will meet with Southern California high school students who were photographed giving Nazi salutes around a swastika formed by drinking cups during a party.
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss will speak to the students Thursday at Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach.
Rabbi Reuven Mintz of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life says the meeting will be private, but the 89-year-old Schloss will speak to news media afterward.
The photo surfaced last weekend, shocking the community.
School officials and other area leaders condemned anti-Semitic actions and hundreds of people came to a meeting at the school to express outrage.
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A California school district is investigating a social media photograph in which young people are seen giving Nazi salutes while standing around a table on which red cups form a swastika.
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District says in a statement it was made aware Sunday of social media postings “involving some students who created inappropriate anti-Semitic symbols, and possible underage drinking.”
The statement says that while the actions did not occur on any school campus or at any school function, the district condemns all acts of anti-Semitism and hate, and is continuing to gather information.
School Board President Charlene Metoyer tells the Orange County Register that several students have been identified as attending Newport Harbor High School.
