On Wednesday, November 5, seven freshman ELA and social studies classes were invited to hear Jack Trompetter speak about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor.
Trompetter spoke about how he survived by being placed with a Dutch family. He was later found at age 3 by his Jewish biological parents after they had been liberated, and didn’t know them and wasn’t able to communicate with them because he had learned a different dialect of Dutch. Trompetter also spoke about his parents and relatives’ stories as survivors, as well as the trauma all suffered; something not understood at the time as it is today.
Trompetter’s talk connected to the freshman students reading Night by Elie Wiesel, and I Promised I Would Tell by Sonia Weitz, and supported Facing History units.
