Help a 90 yr old survivor see the Holocaust Museum
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Abe Piasek is a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Raleigh, NC (details below). Abe speaks regularly at libraries, middle and high schools, and even military bases throughout North Carolina about his experience of being taken from his family and living in concentration camps from 1940-1945, while he was 11-16 years old. Abe has never visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
I teach high school at Research Triangle High School and my students and I want to bring Abe and his family to the Holocaust Museum on April 7, 2019. The Museum is free, but we need funding to pay for the hotel rooms where we will be staying. $2500 will fully fund two hotel rooms for Abe and his family and will make the trip more affordable for the high school students and teachers who will be accompanying Abe to the Holocaust Museum. The trip will also include a visit to the National Archives, where the National Archivist has agreed to open early to show our group the Nuremberg Laws that took citizenship away from Jews in Germany in 1935.
I am one of the teachers on the trip and I will withdraw the funds from the campaign to pay for the hotel rooms. The money will first be used to pay for Abe's family's hotel rooms (we have reached that goal) and then will be used to reduce the cost of the trip for the students and the teachers on the trip. If we fully fund the hotel rooms, any additional funds will be used to pay for parking at the hotels ($36 a night per car -- we are carpooling) and transportation within DC for our group (the METRO from our hotel to the Holocaust Museum Sunday and the National Archives on Monday). Any remaining additional funds will be donated to the Holocaust Museum.
Abe was born in 1928 in Poland. When Germany invaded in 1939, Abe's life changed forever. Shortly after German soldiers were replaced by SS officers, Abe went out with a friend to pick mushrooms to put in a soup his mother was preparing. This was during the Great Depression and food was scarce. When a pair of SS soldiers saw Abe and his friend, one of the SS asked "Are you Jewish?" Abe did not recognize the danger in this question and he replied "yes." The SS soldier, who was about four feet from Abe and his friend, took out his gun and shot and killed Abe's friend. A second bullet missed Abe and Abe ran. He hid under a trough of hay that he knew from games of hide-and-seek, and when the SS officers looked for him, they saw a horse eating the hay, and did not discover Abe.
A few months later, in early 1940, Abe was taken from his parents and sister at age 11 to work in a forced labor camp. He never saw his family again -- they died in the Holocaust. Abe survived four concentration camps, including a brief stay in Auschwitz, over the five years of the war. When he was liberated by US forces in 1945 at age 16, he weighed just 72 pounds. His life is a remarkable story of perseverance and we want to treat him and his family to a trip to the Holocaust Museum.
I teach high school at Research Triangle High School and my students and I want to bring Abe and his family to the Holocaust Museum on April 7, 2019. The Museum is free, but we need funding to pay for the hotel rooms where we will be staying. $2500 will fully fund two hotel rooms for Abe and his family and will make the trip more affordable for the high school students and teachers who will be accompanying Abe to the Holocaust Museum. The trip will also include a visit to the National Archives, where the National Archivist has agreed to open early to show our group the Nuremberg Laws that took citizenship away from Jews in Germany in 1935.
I am one of the teachers on the trip and I will withdraw the funds from the campaign to pay for the hotel rooms. The money will first be used to pay for Abe's family's hotel rooms (we have reached that goal) and then will be used to reduce the cost of the trip for the students and the teachers on the trip. If we fully fund the hotel rooms, any additional funds will be used to pay for parking at the hotels ($36 a night per car -- we are carpooling) and transportation within DC for our group (the METRO from our hotel to the Holocaust Museum Sunday and the National Archives on Monday). Any remaining additional funds will be donated to the Holocaust Museum.
Abe was born in 1928 in Poland. When Germany invaded in 1939, Abe's life changed forever. Shortly after German soldiers were replaced by SS officers, Abe went out with a friend to pick mushrooms to put in a soup his mother was preparing. This was during the Great Depression and food was scarce. When a pair of SS soldiers saw Abe and his friend, one of the SS asked "Are you Jewish?" Abe did not recognize the danger in this question and he replied "yes." The SS soldier, who was about four feet from Abe and his friend, took out his gun and shot and killed Abe's friend. A second bullet missed Abe and Abe ran. He hid under a trough of hay that he knew from games of hide-and-seek, and when the SS officers looked for him, they saw a horse eating the hay, and did not discover Abe.
A few months later, in early 1940, Abe was taken from his parents and sister at age 11 to work in a forced labor camp. He never saw his family again -- they died in the Holocaust. Abe survived four concentration camps, including a brief stay in Auschwitz, over the five years of the war. When he was liberated by US forces in 1945 at age 16, he weighed just 72 pounds. His life is a remarkable story of perseverance and we want to treat him and his family to a trip to the Holocaust Museum.
Organizer
Stephen Goldberg
Organizer
Durham, NC
