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Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

JL;DR SUMMARY Alyssa Katz narrates an evocative journey to Saint-Quentin in northeastern France, showcasing a poignant initiative led by history teacher Damien Bressolles to memorialize the city's Holocaust victims. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustJewish IdentityEducationCommunity EngagementFranceGenealogyRemembranceSaint QuentinDamien Bressolles

Places mentioned

Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France
"We were here thanks to the determined efforts of a history teacher named Damien Bressolles, who since 2023 has been assigning his classes of high school seniors to construct written portraits of neighbors dragged out of France and deported to their deaths during the Holocaust."
Paris, France
"Gilles Weiss is a magician and local son, who bought a house in Saint-Quentin to use for storage midway between performances in Paris and Brussels, and discovered wood paneling with Hebrew carved in it."
Brussels, Belgium
"Gilles Weiss is a magician and local son, who bought a house in Saint-Quentin to use for storage midway between performances in Paris and Brussels, and discovered wood paneling with Hebrew carved in it."
Vaucluse, France
"His mother fled with other family members to the south of France and worked in melon fields."
Lodz, Łódź, Poland
"One of the relatives Gill found was Krzyzstof Goszcyzynska, who lives in d, and had had no idea his grandfather was Jewish."

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