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On April 13, 1945, two tank commanders of the 743rd Tank Battalion and their major overran a train transport near Magdeburg, Germany, filled with 2,500 Jewish concentration camp victims from Bergen-Belsen. This set into motion a chain of events that would culminate in survivors and liberators being reunited six decades later by a dedicated educator and reflecting on what happened.

Mr. Rozell will discuss his work in engaging his high school students with history and the people who lived it, which is culminating in a twelve volume oral history series "The Things Our Fathers Saw" and the book "A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust", recently featured on C-SPAN's Book TV. "A Train Near Magdeburg" is also currently in production for a major documentary film series. A book signing will follow; autographed books will be specially discounted for this event.

Rozell's presentation will touch on his efforts to reunite Holocaust survivor with their actual American soldier liberators, but more importantly will focus on the moral lessons imparted by the soldiers' actions in those closing days of World War II, and the disturbing underlying question of the Holocaust – just how did humanity allow six million Jews to be murdered?

Matthew Rozell is an award-winning history teacher, author, speaker, and blogger on World War II and the Holocaust. He taught at Hudson Falls (NY) High School for 30 years. He had been featured as the ABC World News Person of the Week , and had his classroom work filmed for CBS News, NBC Learn, the Israeli Broadcast Authority, the New York State United Teachers, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also the recipient of the New York State Education Department's Yavner Teaching Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching the Holocaust and Human Rights. Visit him at TeachingHistoryMatters.com.

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