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This Teacher Outsmarted Hitler and His Nazi Regime

February 26, 2017

This Teacher Outsmarted Hitler and His Nazi Regime

In Nazi Germany, when bullying, discrimination, and violence become everyday realities for Jewish children, Leonore Goldschmidt defies the system and opens her own private school for Jewish youth.

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