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April 25, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 8Oakland,
CA
Three local teachers to visit Poland
for Holocaust Day
Local Catholic school educators will be traveling to Poland next month
to take part in the March of the Living, an annual pilgrimage to mark
International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The trip is part of a joint project with the Jewish Anti-Defamation League,
which works with Catholic school teachers to promote education around
the Holocaust and other cultural issues.
This year John Gunty of St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda,
Adrian Fulay of St. Mary’s College High School in Berkeley and Fulay’s
wife, Carrie Schroeder, who teaches at Mercy High School in San Francisco,
will take part.
All three are teachers of religion. Fulay is campus minister at St. Mary’s,
and Schroeder heads the religion department at Mercy High School. Fulay
and Schroeder are active members of St. Paschal Baylon Parish in Oakland.
Gunty said the trip is part of an international pilgrimage of thousands
to Auschwitz, Berkenau and the sites of the Warsaw and Krakow ghettoes.
The three Bay Area teachers will be at Auschwitz on International Holocaust
Remembrance Day, which is observed on May 5 this year.
Gunty said he has been impressed by the “incredible cooperation
between the Jews and the Catholics on this whole issue” of the Holocaust.
He is also helping prepare a course on Holocaust studies to be offered
at St. Joseph Notre Dame.
