A Holocaust survivor's story
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:56AM Print Article Adam Klinker/World-Herald News Service
This is the story Beatrice Karp shared with sixth-graders in Sara Wheeler’s class at Karen Western Elementary School in Ralston:
Growing up in the countryside near Karlsruhe, Germany, in the early and mid-1930s, her early childhood was normal, even idyllic, living with her parents, a younger sister, her grandmother and an uncle.
“Then, suddenly, I knew something was very wrong,” Karp said. “My uncle used to come home from the university and I could hear arguments about whether to leave Germany or not. My father would say he couldn’t believe anybody would do something like that to the Jewish people. He also said, ‘I am a German. My family has been living here since the 16th century.’”
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