BY BERNIE MIXON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Ellen Fettner, a Holocaust educator and retired history and English teacher from Walnut Hills High School tonight will receive a Spirit of Anne Frank Award.
The awards honor those who have demonstrated the personal courage to stand up for their convictions and a commitment to actively confront anti-Semitism, racism and bias-related violence.
Mrs. Fettner, a Montgomery resident, will travel to New York today to accept one of two outstanding educator awards given by the Anne Frank Center USA, an educational organization dedicated to fighting racism, anti-Semitism and bias-related violence.
"She has been exceptional in understanding the greatest gift we can give the future is to teach people how to avoid (another Holocaust) by understanding the humanity inside it," said Rabbi Abie Ingber, executive director of the University of Cincinnati's Hillel Jewish Student Center, who wrote a letter of recommendation for Mrs. Fettner.
The Anne Frank Center USA was founded in 1977 with a mission to educate the public, especially young people, about the causes, instruments and dangers of discrimination and violence through the story of Anne Frank.
The center's educational programs teach that the rejection and prevention of all forms of discrimination must begin at an early age, and that each individual has a personal responsibility to contribute to that goal.
