Spring 2016: The Peopling of New York City A Macaulay Honors Seminar taught by Prof. Karen Williams at Brooklyn College

Spring 2016: The Peopling of New York City
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Our Story, Your Story; The commemoration of the forgotten in “The Darkness of Siberia”
Our Story, Your Story; The commemoration of the forgotten in "The Darkness of Siberia"

My grandmother was a victim of the horrors that the Holocaust wreaked on the Jews of the 20th century. She was deported to Siberia on a cattle car. She and her father caught malaria and she watched her father perish. She was starving, freezing and suffering through awful conditions. Through it all, she held on […]