Holocaust Survivor Speaks At Calavera Hills Middle School

From the Carlsbad Unified School District:

January 22 2020

A Holocaust survivor spoke to Calavera Hills Middle School’s eighth graders on Tuesday, and you could have heard a pin drop in the Coyote Cavern.

Ninety-year-old Rose Schindler told the students of her harrowing experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II. The prisoners in the camp--men, women, and children--endured brutality, disease, starvation--and, often, death in the gas chamber. Of the 600 Jews who lived in Rose’s village, Seredne in Czechoslovakia, only 18 survived. Both of her parents and five of her brothers and sisters were among the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

Rose married Holocaust survivor Max Schindler, and they moved to San Diego in 1956, where they raised a family of four children.

The CHMS students were moved by the presentation, and lined up afterwards to meet Mrs. Schindler, take photos with her, and have her sign her books for them.

This press release was produced by the Carlsbad Unified School District. The views expressed here are the author’s own.