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Statement by Julie
An active member of the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial volunteer Docent Committee, Rose Beal is a Holocaust survivor who generously tells her remarkable story to Memorial visitors and student groups as often as she is asked.
Rose grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. She was one of 200 of 17,000 Jews to survive a grueling deportation to Poland just before the outbreak of the war. Rose survived harassment, raids and the infamous 1938 Krystallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass." Rose, her mother and younger brothers narrowly escaped death several times. She describes her experiences in Nazi Germany with crystalline detail and attributes her survival to luck. She also relates her experience in a broader context of Holocaust remembrance, the moral responsibility to speak out against injustice and the American immigrant experience.
A frequent keynote speaker and honored guest for education institutions and civic organizations, Rose is also the focus of a recent $5,000 OfficeMax Boise Community Fund grant award to the Idaho Human Rights Education Center to develop a video and oral history profiling her story. The project, slated for launch in fall 2008, will include a documentary film and educational lesson for classroom use in Idaho’s junior high and high schools.
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