Holocaust Internship: Gabi Held

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Meeting a Holocaust survivor was an experience that I will never be able to forget. There is only so much about the Holocaust that I was able to understand from textbooks and movies, but being able to shake the hand of a person who was able to live though and carry on after such a horrible experience was unforgettable. I was impressed at how willing Gabi Held, the survivor that I met, was to share his story. Bringing all those painful memories to the surface is a sort of bravery that I admire in the highest degree. When I first watched his video testimony I was able to see what a dynamic person he was, however getting to sit down and speak to him was a totally different experience. Watching the emotions change as he described his experiences put all the research in perspective for me.                 I was in charge of filming the classroom visits, rather than teaching, however...