Teaching History Matters
London – Sir Nicholas Winton.
I am sharing this post by my friend and traveling companion Scott Durham, whom I spent a good deal of...
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Keep tossing pebbles.
[caption id="attachment_1148" align="alignleft" width="500"] Francis Curry, WWII Medal of Honor, with students.[/caption] FOUR years ago today the most incredible week...
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Stamps and Miracles.
I met Leslie Meisels exactly four years ago today, when he and Ariela Rojek and Paul Arato drove all the...
Read the articleA photo provides some peace.
A beautiful September Tuesday morning. I'm repeating this story today. God Bless.Ten years after 9/11, a photo provides some peace A...
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Now it's personal-Page 599-The Guns at Last Light.
I’m recovering from a foot injury and it has given me time to finish Rick Atkinson’s latest release, The Guns...
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Books.
My son, brother, and I were up at our camp retreat in the Adirondacks, begun by our dad 36 years...
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Bottles.
[caption id="attachment_2554" align="alignleft" width="300"] Matthew Rozell rediscovers and rekindles interest in sutler site, 1996.[/caption] Today I am going to get...
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We often wonder, was it all worthwhile.
One of the hard parts about this project is that people whom you come to know and love get older...
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Knowledge and Understanding.
[caption id="attachment_2519" align="alignleft" width="300"] Our teachers in Cracow, Poland, Schindler Factory Museum of Cracow.[/caption] So. I have been traveling and...
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To Life.
So the day that many of us approach with a bit of apprehension is finally here. We are on the bus...
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World War II infantry veteran Carrol Walsh, top, hugs Holocaust survivor Paul Arato at a reunion in Queensbury, N.Y., on...
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The butcher's son.
[caption id="attachment_2462" align="alignleft" width="225"] Ravensbruck.[/caption] We have visited a lot of sites in Germany since Bergen Belsen-in Berlin, the Wannsee Villa,...
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Remember Me.
[caption id="attachment_2437" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bergen Belsen on July 5, 2013.[/caption] I am in Europe on a study tour of the...
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the hardest part, was telling my mother...
Jimmie Butterfield died this week. His obit is pretty humble. So was the man. Jimmie used to come to my...
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here are some cool pics-remember you saw # 7 here first.
They saw it here first because I took the time to talk to "old" people.. http://popchassid.com/photos-holocaust-narrative/ Photos That Change The...
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A Train Near Magdeburg (Поезд под Магдебургом)
My new friends in Russia told me that the entry they solicited from me last month won a contest (commemorating...
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This is from last evening's PBS NewsHour. Book is on my summer reading list. April 1945 a focus of my...
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The Sixth of June.
Today one of my former students emailed me to visit saying that she had a surprise for me. She brought...
Read the articleHere we are commemorating it 150 years later as the last veteran of World War II dies.
Lautenberg was the last World War II veteran in Senate By Chris Cillizza and Steve Vogel, Washington Post Published: June...
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2 NY vets of Edson's Raiders recall WWII battles.
My boys. Thanks to my friend Chris Carola at the AP and Senator Little's office for recognizing them while they were...
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You think about why you have a three-day weekend.
By OMAR RICARDO AQUIJE- Glens Falls Post Star HUDSON FALLS —Fred Spiegel was asked if he felt resentment toward the...
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Marine Raiders to be honored by NYS Senate.
Gerald West Born: 1919 Served: U.S. Marines 1940-1957 U.S. Army 1957-1962 Residence: Fort Edward, New York Nominated by Matthew Rozell,...
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Two Toronto Holocaust survivors meet their liberators 65 years later Two survivors of a death train out of Bergen-Belsen concentration...
Read the articleI know what I saw. I am a witness. Now that I have told you, you are witnesses, too.
I don't know Leo but when I saw the headline I thought they were writing about my friends on this...
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In 1986 I traveled to the Soviet Union with a group of teachers. I was pre-service, but wanted the experience...
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Someone recently, I think it was a journalist, exhibited a sense of wonderment about my project, the one where my...
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Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museum
By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press Monday, April 29, 2013 [caption id="attachment_2283" align="alignleft" width="224"] Frank this morning at the Museum...
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Survivors will help mark Holocaust museum anniversary.
As the museum turns 20, officials understand that the demise of those who survived the prison camps as children means...
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Soldiers, survivors converge in Louisville.
Thanks to Alan Smason for a nice article. I have added some clarifying remarks in brackets for posterity and additional accuracy. Soldiers, survivors...
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How the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum changed my life.
In April 2008 I was accepted into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellowship Program. I was called out...
Read the articleWhat the true meaning of freedom is. The 68th anniversary of the liberation of the train.
Today is the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the train. We'll have 80 for the final banquet tonight. I...
Read the articleWW2 Veterans to Reunite with Holocaust survivors.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Several survivors of a Nazi train transporting concentration camp inmates are being reunited with some of the...
Read the articleThe map of the Third Reich is being dramatically redrawn.
Marc Silver National Geographic News Published April 8, 2013 Note: This is from National Geographic. As the nations commemorates Holocaust...
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Three American Candles.
I just got home from a Yom Hashoah event, Holocaust Remembrance, that was pretty intense. You know that when folks...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day Schedule Jewish Federation of Ulster County Sunday, April 7, 2013 PROGRAM Please enter quietly, take a card,...
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USS Thresher Sinking: Impacts of Deadliest Submarine Disaster In U.S. History Remembered 50 Years Later By David Sharp 04/05/13 02:47...
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