(Jewish Group) Holocaust survivor fulfills dream of receiving a high school diploma
An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from Poland who says that never having a formal education has been a profound regret was awarded a high school diploma.
Miriam Schreiber of Hartford, Connecticut, was presented with an honorary diploma on Aug. 16 at an appropriately socially distanced ceremony at the New England Jewish Academy in Hartford, The Washington Post reported. She accepted the diploma in a cap and gown.
Representatives of the senior class had met with Schreiber, a Warsaw native, at the beginning of the school year and heard her life story. The entire class voted to award her the diploma.
The students had planned to give her the diploma at their graduation ceremony, but when the graduation was switched to a virtual ceremony due to the coronavirus, they planned the special ceremony.
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