Children of the Holocaust Presentation

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Adults

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Examining the plight of children and adolescents in the Holocaust as they suffered, hid, and ultimately resisted the Nazis by trying to survive. You will be introduced to youth who suffered depredations in the Ghettos, who tried to pass as “Aryan,” and who had to abandon a normal childhood in order to work as slave laborers for the Nazis.

David Reeser teaches high school government, AP government, and classes on the Holocaust and Human Rights. He was a Museum Teacher Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the 2016-2017 year, traveled to Israel, Germany, and Poland with the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program in 2011, studied with The Olga Lengyel Institute in 2014, and took students to Europe for a Holocaust tour for the first time in 2024. He lives in Rexburg, Idaho with his wife and dogs.