When Cara Merrill won a grant a year ago to go overseas to visit historical Holocaust sites in Poland, she had no idea where the experience would take her students. The Ashland District School English teacher will accompany her seventh-graders to Augusta later this month as their World War II-inspired artwork takes center stage at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta. The slaughter of six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime has long echoed around the world, but so has the strength of the people who resisted and endured. That idea led Merrill and the center’s education...