Sol Lurie, a Holocaust survivor, speaks to Brainerd High students about the horrors of the holocaust.
Sol Lurie, right, a Holocaust survivor, shares personal photographs with Brainerd High World History teacher Mark Hernandez before speaking to a select group of history students in the school’s auditorium.IF YOU GO* What: Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust program.* When: 2 p.m. Sunday; victims names read at 1 p.m.* When: C.C. Bond Humanities Building, Chattanooga State Community College, 4501 Amnicola Highway.* Admission: Free.* Information: 332-2041.
When Brainerd High School ninth-grader Camarrius Rice learned in social studies class that millions of people perished in World War II’s Holocaust, he was dubious.
Millions? It just seemed a bit farfetched.
But earlier this week, Camarrius met Sol Lurie, a Holocaust victim, and saw up-close the B2858 number that had been tattooed on Lurie’s arm when he was a pre-teenager, the number that Nazis put on Jews when they entered concentration camps.
“I wanted to meet somebody who’d been through it,” Camarrius says. “He showed me his number. It’s like a discovery. He is a survivor. That’s what he is.”