Holocaust comes into focus for D.M. teacher

After all these years, the barracks are still there.

The same barracks in which women, mostly Jews, were housed during World War II as part of the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. Jennifer Middleswart, a special-education teacher at McCombs Middle School, had the opportunity to stay in the same building that some 60 years ago was the site of an evil that still plagues many in thought to this day.”The things we got to see were absolutely amazing,” she said.

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The best people weren’t the ones who survived, it was the people that were crafty,” Middleswart shared in her account of [Holocaust survivor Werner] Bab.


Source:

www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
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By VANNAH SHAW • [email protected] • August 15, 2008


Webmaster note:

Didn’t Norman Finkelstein make this same point albeit less flatteringly?