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Teaching teens the Holocaust

With a little help from Borat, Obama and Twain
By Sarah Jane Ricklan
Book Review In a recent lecture, Elie Wiesel questioned whether American Jews in 1939 campaigned hard enough against the U.S. government's refusal to accept the hundreds of Jewish refugees aboard the SS Saint Louis - a decision that sent many of them to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis.

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