Mr. McCarville
Email: Mr. McCarville
Junior High Homeroom B:
My name is Mr. McCarville, and I will be your child’s homeroom teacher this year. I will teach your child Social Studies and Religion as well as proper respect, behavior, hard work, and how to strive for excellence this year. Seventh and eighth graders will get the opportunity to participate in some fun service projects similar to most of the high schools. We hope to participate in the Harvest Fund Raiser as well as the Corporate Cup and the Omaha Marathon. I will share more information in my next blog.
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Nicholas Davis
Bea Karp essay
4-17-11
Bea Karp is a Holocaust survivor that recently came to visit my schools. While there she talked about her life before, during, and after the Holocaust. I learned a lot about who she is and what kind of person she is. I also found out about why she did the many triumphant things she did in her life.
Bea has a very open personality and has been that way her entire life. Even as a child she was very bold and extremely confident. She told us stories of when she threw rocks at a Nazi and ran around a ghetto trying to get away. Also she told a story of when she went up to a Nazi and kicked him before walking directly out of a concentration camp with her little sister. Soon after that Bea walked into a completely different concentration camp just to see her father that she loved very much.
Bea was and still is the kind of person that challenged the authority of others. She was a very strong girl through the Holocaust and was never afraid of German Nazis because she did not and still does not respect them. After being freed from her concentration camp by a French organization she was sent to a convent where she pretended to be a Catholic. There she took part in traditional Catholic activities such as going to mass in a church and praying to Jesus and the numerous saints. Now this was a bittersweet time for her because even though she was freed she was separated from her sister who was in another convent home. She was also separated from her parents who were still in concentration camps.
During her life in the convent Bea pondered on whether she should switch religions or “convert” to Catholicism. She went to a nun for assistance in here decision. The nun asked her if she would wait until the war was over then if she felt the same she could convert. After the war was over she wanted to remain Jewish and did so. She was also reunited with her sister after the war and they went to a local public place where they had lists of those that survived the war. Bea went with a nun to look for her parents but sadly never saw their names as they had been killed in a concentration camp. Since she never found them Bea and her sister moved to England with their grandmother. Today she speaks to Catholic schools about that scary time in her life.
Listening to Bea was very inspirational for me. I learned that those who survived the Holocaust were extraordinary people, people who made through with the grace of God so they could tell the horrendous stories of that time to others. They made it through so they can share their memories so something like that could never happen again. Bea taught me that no matter who you are or what you have been through you can still make a difference in the world. I thank Bea for coming to my school and I am very lucky I had the chance to take part in something such as that.
