Children of the German School at Eerde … America is rounding up and imprisoning people labeled as so-called “illegal aliens,” taking children from families and detaining people in crowded, sometimes abusive conditions. Increasingly, the arrested include American-born…
With A Garden Grows: Quakerism in Nazi Germany , her new book of translations from the German, Mary Mills has given us a challenging glimpse into the heart of courageous, faith-driven action during exceedingly dangerous times. The context for these writings is the…
In 1995, I decided to explore the Holocaust with my German classes. This was shortly before I was selected as the first world language teacher and German teacher to be a Mandel Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 1997. I made my…
Mary Mills is a retired teacher of French and German at County Prep High School in Jersey City, N.J., and a former member of Woodstown (N.J.) Meeting. She has served as a Mandel Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In the April 2003…