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Teaching History Matters's title: Teaching History Matters | "for the sake of humanity"… A small town American high school history project changes lives worldwide. These are the observations of a veteran teacher- on the Power of Teaching, the importance of the study of History, and especially the lessons we must learn, and teach, on the Holocaust. Click on "Holocaust Survivors, Liberators Reunited" tab above to begin.

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A Survivor’s’ Note to Her Mother On Mother’s Day—’I am Alive!’

A girl smiles while recuperating from the concentration camp Bergen Belsen sometime following liberation in the spring of 1945.

Tomorrow in central New York I am presenting at a workshop for teachers about Project Based Lear...


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He kept writing it all down — on cigarette paper and scraps, hidden from his captors.

5 – 6 MAY 1942 | THE FALL OF CORREGIDOR — AND THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER ORDEAL

Eighty-four years ago today, a young man from the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York was spending his 25th birthday under relentless Japanese bombardment — fighting for his life, and for an island that could not be saved.

The hell would come soon enough.


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Dachau and the photo in his wallet. The question he never got to ask.
April 30 1945 Headlines, on display in my classroom.

Eighty-one years ago today, American soldiers of the 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions arrived at Dachau, in southern Germany. This is a post...


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She Was Told to Live and Tell the Story.

She Was Told to Live and Tell the Story: Aliza Vitis-Shomron and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Eighty-three years ago this April, the Jews remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto did something the world needs to pause and note: they fought back. It was not at all what some term, ‘sheep to the slaughter’; no, not by...


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A Soldier Witnesses: "I’ll Be in a Better Frame of Mind Tomorrow…”

“I’ll Be in a Better Frame of Mind Tomorrow.”

April 17, 2026

Eighty-one years ago today, a young man sat down somewhere in central Germany and wrote a letter to his minister back home in Dayton, Ohio.

He had not written in months. He apologized for that. And then he described something that had happened four day...


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