APass Education Group
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Students learn of differences and similarities with others through family history research to “recognize the origins of old-new dangers.”
by Joanie Schirm on November 29, 2016 Permalink“Hopefully, education and knowledge of history linked together with pure compassion and humanity will let us recognize the origins of old-new dangers and tie down the demons of hatred and evil before they grow to overcome us again.” Vaclav Havel, First President of the Czech Republic As important today as ever, students can learn similarities
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Helping Future Peacemakers Understand the Past. A True Story Tells it Best.
by Joanie Schirm on November 4, 2015 PermalinkFrom the moment I read the last letter that my grandfather Arnošt wrote to my dad, I knew it held meaning beyond the four walls of my writing room. Dated April 21, 1942, just three days before Arnošt and my grandmother Olga Holzer were taken from Prague on a Nazi transport to their deaths, the