Lake teacher Nikki Bazzoli, whose students first heard her speak as eighth graders, and Holocaust survivor Paula Marks-Bolton. Marks-Bolton, 90, of Detroit, received a diploma from the school Sunday.
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Lake High School seniors applaud 90-year-old Paula Marks-Bolton, right. Marks-Bolton, a survivor of the Holocaust, graduated with Lake High School Class of 2017 in Millbury, Ohio Sunday.
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Paula Marks-Bolton, 90, left, is escorted by Lake High School senior Parker Lake. Holocaust survivor Paula Marks-Bolton graduated with the Class of 2017 Sunday. "These terrible things happened to her, but hers was a message of love and forgiveness. She just kind of changed our lives," said Parker Lake of Bowling Green, one of the students who first heard her when he was in the eighth grade.
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Hindea Markowicz, left, Holocaust survivor Paula Marks-Bolton, and senior Parker Lake before Sunday's graduation ceremony. Markowicz is the director of the Ruth Fajerman Markowicz Holocaust Resource Center.
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Paula Marks-Bolton, 90, thanks those in attendance during Lake High School's commencement Sunday. The Holocaust survivor was awarded an honorary diploma by the school. The class flower is the white rose, which was also the name of a small group of German university students who tried to organize resistance in 1942 to the Nazi policy of genocide. Betrayed to the Gestapo, the leaders were executed in 1943.
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Hindea Markowicz, left, Paula Marks-Bolton, and senior Parker Lake before Lake High School's graduation ceremony Sunday.
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Holocaust survivor Paula Marks-Bolton, 90, is escorted by senior Parker Lake during Lake High School's graduation ceremony Sunday.
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Holocaust survivor Paula Marks-Bolton, 90, Lake High School Class of 2017.
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