On Monday, Nov. 12, and Tuesday, Nov. 13, sophomores in Honors English 2  had the opportunity to take a field trip to the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, located on the Jewish Community Center’s campus in Creve Coeur, Mo. There, they were taken on a tour of the museum and heard a Holocaust survivor speak of her experiences in concentration camps and liberation.

During the tour of the museum, the students got to see and hear instances of what the majority of Jews and other small minorities faced during this time, as well as topics such as the rise of Nazism and Anti-Semitism.

The Holocaust survivor that spoke was Sara Moses, 74, is currently one of the youngest Holocaust survivors alive. She was born in Poland in 1938 and was taken from her home when she was just 6 years old to the Treblinka concentration camp and eventually to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She said that her imagination as a child and the help of a female Nazi guard allowed her to survive.

The trip wrapped up the end of the Holocaust unit for the students, which was centered on the reading of Night, a story written by Jewish author Elie Wiesel about his time in death camps with his father and how he changed as a person through this.

Below are photos of exhibits in the museum:

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