A New Jersey middle school, East Brook Middle School, recalled its recently released yearbook when administrators learned that a photograph of Adolf Hitler had appeared in the publication’s baby pictures section.
Incident Investigation
The incident prompted an investigation in Paramus, a Bergen County borough in northern New Jersey. It was not immediately clear how the image was submitted, who was responsible for including it, or how it made it through the yearbook review process before the final copies were distributed.
East Brook Middle School Principal Ryan Aupperlee wrote in a June 25 letter to parents, ‘Earlier today, after students had already received their yearbooks, we learned that the baby pictures section of the yearbook contained an image that was later identified as an infant photograph of Adolf Hitler. We immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain in circulation.’
Aupperlee’s letter to parents stated, ‘I want to be direct with you: the presence of this image is unacceptable. Even if the image was not immediately recognizable to those paging through the book, its inclusion in an official school publication is a severe breach of our values. Adolf Hitler represents hatred, antisemitism, and the horrors of the Holocaust, including the murder of six million Jews. An image of him has no place in a yearbook created for our students.’
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