I was teaching the holocaust last year to 8th graders and the day's lesson was about auschwitz, transportation process and zyklon b gas....etc. not the easiest topic to teach let alone when you have a substitute teacher in with you. well i'm talking, answering questions and the substitute teacher (in for my resource room teacher) is just kind of sitting there and i try not to really take notice of her. at the end of the class the lady introduces herself and says I gave a really really good lesson. I thanked her for her compliments; she then proceeded to tell me that both her mom and dad were auschwitz survivors and met in a displaced person camp after the war. I was blown away.
That was moving to read in itself. Can't imagine (yet again) being in that moment yourself, learning of that..
Hopefully warm (yet bittersweet too, I would think) for their daughter.
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Hopefully warm (yet bittersweet too, I would think) for their daughter.
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