Brier Terrace Middle School is a public school with an enrollment of 650 students in grades 7 and 8. Per the school’s website, we “strive to create a positive learning environment which enhances and nurtures the social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth of young adolescents. The 5P’s: polite, prepared, prompt, productive, and proud, are emphasized at school and taught and demonstrated throughout our school by students and staff.”  The school’s minority enrollment is 48% and its overall academic testing rank places it in the top 30% of WA state schools.

This was my second visit to Brier Terrace in the last 3 years, and my presentation was once again organized by teacher Beth Poole, whose preparation of her 8^th grade students included the history of anti-Judaism and antisemitism, pre-war Jewish life, the rise of Hitler, the timeline of events leading up to WWII regarding the Holocaust, Kindertransport, various narratives of hiding, survivor testimonials, Nuremberg Laws, Holocaust by bullets, different types of ghettos, different types of camps, and displaced persons camps.

Arrangements for my presentation were made by Lexi Jason, Education Program Manager of Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity, and yeoman technical support (and more) was provided by Domenick Dellino.

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