Dutch Resistance speaker meets Gar-Pal 8th graders

Carla Peperzak, who was honored by the Washington State Senate in March for her heroism in the Dutch Resistance during World War II and for her work in educating current generations, shared her story with Tina Coles' eighth grade language arts classes at the Garfield-Palouse Middle School April 2.

The class was just finishing up a unit on the Holocaust, in which the students read books like In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and The Boy Who Dared. They prepared a research project on various aspects of the Holocaust.

Peperzak was a teenager in Ho...