To Educators,

Through my narrative, your students can experience what it was like for a seven year old child to survive the Jewish Ghetto and the liquidation of the Jewish population of my home town of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. I will verbally paint the picture of my experiences in various labor camps.

I complete the story of my family's tragedy with my experiences at Buchenwald Concentration Camp where I was saved by the inmates together with seven hundred other children. I close the story with my final liberation from Terezenstadt. If time permits, I can also include a video of my family members and others from my hometown who did not survive. This video is accompanied by music and gives the students time for reflection before I begin a question and answer session.

Based upon past speaking engagements, your students should benefit in a number of ways.
  - First, they will see the consequence of life in a racially and ethnically divided nation.
  - Second, they will see the necessity to counter lessons of hate with lessons that promote understanding and caring. 
  - Third, students will examine their thoughts and feelings and then confront not only their own potential for passivity and complicity but also their courage and resilience.
  - Fourth, the students will increase their perspective-taking, critical thinking, and moral decision making.
  - Fifth, the students will learn the circumstances of our would are the result of choices make by countless individuals and groups.
  - Sixth, and most importantly, the students will become more sensitized to inhumanity and suffering.

Sidney Finkel