How lucky we were to have Mrs. Esther Lederman with us today! Our teacher Ms. Finkelstein, whose 10th grade students are studying Elie Wiesel's Night, contacted The Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education of North Carolina to see if a Holocaust survivor could speak to the 10th graders.One of the slogans of the Center is, "When you listen to a witness, you become a witness," and I believe the students in attendance understood the truth and weight of that by the end of their time with Mrs. Lederman. She was incredibly generous in describing her experience of hiding in an attic for two years to evade the Nazis, after they had murdered her mother and younger sister and sent her father to Buchenwald.
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