Lise Marlowe

David Tuck was 10 years old when he and his family were rounded up in Poland and sent to concentration camps because he was Jewish. He survived over 5 1/2 years in multiple camps and Lodz Ghetto.

Harry Somers brought beauty into the world by painting peaceful, colorful scenes of a brighter tomorrow. As a young boy, Harry was forced to leave his family and everything he loved behind in Nazi Germany. Even though Harry lost everything in the Holocaust, he didn't live his life with hate. According to Harry, "the more you hate, the more you die." Read about the life of American artist Harry Somers in Bringing Beauty into the World and be inspired by his paintings and words of peace. Film director Erik Angra interviewed Harry during his final days of life and shared his story with Elkins Park School teacher Lise Marlowe. Mrs. Marlowe's 6th grade students were moved by Harry's story and wrote poetry to capture the beauty and struggles in his life.

Camp William Penn in La Mott, Pennsylvania was the first official federal training camp for African American soldiers in the Civil War. Over 11,000 men, 40% of them former slaves, walked through the gates of Camp William Penn. Frederick Douglass was the main recruiter of the camp. The camp was on the land of the infamous abolitionist and women's rights suffragist, Lucretia Mott.

Eight year old Renate tried to escape Nazi Germany when she boarded the S.S. St. Louis with her mother on May 13, 1939. The St. Louis had 938 Jewish passengers including 200 children, many of them under the age of 10. Every passenger on the ship had a legal landing certificate to Cuba but were turned away when they arrived. The captain of the ship pleaded with the United States to take in the Jewish passengers but were told to return to Nazi Germany. The voyage of the St. Louis is one of the most tragic events in human history. Renate: A Jewish child who escaped Nazi Germany is the story of one of the few survivors of the St. Louis.