MUMS teacher inspired by a Holocaust hero

Middlebury Union Middle School French teacher Denise Bérubé’s summer experience as an inquisitive tourist is about to pay nice educational dividends for her students.

A free, three-part concert series “Commemorating the Holocaust with Music of Jewish Resistance” will kick off on April 15 at the Havurah House in Middlebury.

In 1940, a French Jewish girl’s dream of becoming a ballerina is cut short by World War II.

At a time of rising antisemitism, hate and intolerance throughout the United States, Vermont students have begun to take on the responsibility of sharing the lessons of the Holocaust with their schools and communities.

MONKTON — In January 1945, just months before the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American forces, 16-year-old Jewish prisoner Elie Wiesel lay silently, fearfully in his bunk as his father was beaten to death in the bunk below. Wiesel’s fat … (read more)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Albert Zaccor of Bridport, a teacher at Mount Abraham Union High School in Bristol, is bringing back lessons designed to engage and promote students’ understanding of Holocaust history from the nation’s leading Holocaust education confe … (read more)