A sea of seventh graders spontaneously rose to their feet today at the completion of Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz' talk this morning in our auditorium. Dr. Spatz is professor emerita at UNCC ,the mother of a former Piedmont teacher, plus grandmother of several Piedmont alum. She agreed to share her story with our students at the request of our Humanities department. Students were riveted- they "knew" the holocaust but you never REALLY know something until you hear a first-hand story from someone who lived through it. Though her talk and introductory film clip, students learned things that are not common knowledge about the holocaust on the political arena and in its details in her own life and that of those most affected, including:
Memorable quotes paraphrased from Dr. Spatz via my live-tweet of this important occasion: Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Buchenwald concentration camp :
On surviving a concentration camp:
On Freedom:
On what she wants students to take away from her talk:
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