Rabbi Raleigh Resnick of Chabad of the Tri-Valley in Pleasanton is used to getting calls from local public schools.
Since there’s no local center for Holocaust education, he’s become a resource for teachers in the region he serves, which includes Danville, San Ramon, Dublin and Livermore.
“In this area, it’s a void that needs to be filled,” he said.
So Resnick and Larry Lagin, a former nuclear fusion scientist turned recreational painter, decided to collaborate on a new project aimed at enhancing Holocaust education for young people via the East Bay Holocaust Education Center.
“It’s so important,” Lagin said. “I really feel that it has to be done, especially now more than ever.”
WWII Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Removed to Germany Details Written by IVN
Washington, DC - Today a Tennessee resident with German citizenship was removed to Germany for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.
In February 2020, Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, was ordered removed from the U.S. based on his participation in Nazi-sponsored persecution while serving in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system (Neuengamme).
“Berger’s removal demonstrates the Department of Justice’s and its law enforcement partners’ commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses,” said Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson. “The Department marshaled evidence that our Human Rights and Special Prosec
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WWII Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Removed to Germany
Today a Tennessee resident with German citizenship was removed to Germany for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.
In February 2020, Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, was ordered removed from the U.S. based on his participation in Nazi-sponsored persecution while serving in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system (Neuengamme). Berger s removal demonstrates the Department of Justice s and its law enforcement partners commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses, said Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson. The Department marshaled evidence that our Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section found in archives here and in Europe, including records of the histo