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(JTA) — Margot Stern Strom, who drew on the pain of her Jewish childhood in the Jim Crow South to create one of the most widely used Holocaust education programs
Strom was a schoolteacher in 1976 when she co-founded Facing History & Ourselves, which drew on draft lessons piloted in her classroom.
A curriculum launched in 1976 broke a “powerful silence” about racism and antisemitism in American schools.
"We have to allow for discomfort in the classroom," she said of the curriculum the nonprofit she cofounded brings to students.
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