By N. Champion – CCB editor

Peter Stern, 81, a Holocaust survivor, gave the Conwell Middle Magnet School community a presentation on what happened durning the Holocaust. Throughout the assembly, which took place at 9 a.m. on April 6, 2022 on Zoom, Stern painted a very tragic picture of what he and his family went through.

‘’Why is it that people go through stuff I experienced?” Stern said. 

According to Stern’s presentation and his online biography. Stern was born in Nuremberg, Germany in March 1936, he had a younger brother named Sam. His father’s name was Artur and he was a mechanic. In 1941 Stern and his family were deported to Germany to a camp in Latvia, which was surrounded by guards and traps. 

“Because, we shouldn’t forget the past, knowing our past helps us know where we came from,” said Mr. Posnan. 

Mr.Posan

 Stern was only 6 years old, and he said he did not know what was going on. On the campsite, in the building, he said there were many Jewish people in one house. He said the Nazis tricked them into going into camps to kill off the Jewish people.The Nazis took away his rights and also his family rights. They did it because Jewish people were way different from them.

D. Llanos, in section 62, had some questions to ask Mr. Stern about the Holocaust, during the question and answer part of the Zoom presentation. 

“Why did so many people go along with his plans?” said D. Llanos. 

To answer that question Stern revealed a sad truth from his experience.

“The Nazis believed that the Germans were very easily tricked into agreeing with their plan,” Stern said.

Mr. Posan, a 6th grade math teacher at Conwell Middle Magnet School, who helped organize the presentation, said some encouraging words to Peter Stern.

“Because, we shouldn’t forget the past, knowing our past helps us know where we came from,” said Mr. Posnan.