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Holocaust survivor Irene Miller tells board her wartime story and urges educators to teach vigilance against totalitarianism

State Board of Education · June 10, 2025
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Irene Miller, a Holocaust survivor, recounted her experiences from wartime Poland, Siberia and Uzbekistan to postwar life and new country resettlement; she urged educators to teach the signs of totalitarianism and defended broad Holocaust education in schools.

Irene Miller, introduced as a Holocaust survivor, delivered an extended first‑person account of childhood in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion, forced displacements, survival in no‑man's‑land and labor camps, and eventual migration through Europe, Israel and the United States.

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