Four freshmen at the prestigious Manalapan High School in New Jersey are under investigation after they posted hateful messages on Snapchat and Instagram over the weekend in which they pledged to “kill every last Jew” and to dress as Adolf Hitler and Holocaust victims for Halloween, U.S. media reported this week.
The posts, which also included references to gas chambers and insults such as “i filled my vape w the gas from the holocaust so i’m smoking all dead opps [sic],” were shared among a private group before spreading to a wider audience.
After the messages came to light, school officials convened an emergency meeting and dozens of parents attended a school board session Thursday evening, demanding accountability.
Parent Tarra Premisler said she watched the posts herself, recalling: “[They said] they should dress up as shoeless children from the Holocaust, and one of the children, one of the other girls... said that she wants to fill one of the other girl's vapes with the smoke from the gas chamber. And they said they should kill us all."
Another parent, Beth Katz Nelson, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and deputy director of the Yad Vashem USA Foundation, called the incident a sign that current Holocaust‑education efforts “are not enough.”
Superintendent Dr. Nicole Hazel of the Freehold Regional High School District condemned the messages and said the district is “taking immediate action.” She added: “Hate to the level of what appeared in those messages is not created in a vacuum… it demands education.”
The school district, bound by privacy laws, declined to release details about disciplinary actions, but parents at the meeting pressured officials for transparency and stronger consequences.
The incident has provoked alarm in the largely Jewish Monmouth County community, where residents and elected officials voiced deep concern and urged the district to bolster its response to hate speech.