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Margareta Ackerman

May 19, 2014, 10:43 AM

If Not Us, Then Who? Preserving Holocaust History

Some days I feel that perhaps everything that could have been said about the Holocaust has already been said. Why keep rehashing the past? Then, I meet yet another person who knows next to nothing about the Shoah, or,...

Apr 30, 2014, 6:20 PM

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Margareta Ackerman, PhD. is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivor Srulik Ackerman and author of Running from Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child," an illustrated memoir of Srulik’s experience in the Holocaust. She also authored over a dozen academic publications, including research on applications of traditional Jewish study methodology to the modern classroom. Born in Belarus, Margareta spent much of her childhood in Israel. She lives with her husband and son in San Jose, California.