Outstanding educator and WSHERC board member Pat G. bringing Gerda Weissman Klein to Seattle!

Holocaust speaker coming to Kent: Gerda Weissman Klein the subject of Oscar-winning film
By Laura Pierce

Kent Reporter Editor

May 20 2010, 7:00 PM

For Pat Gallagher, a visit from a holocaust survivor next month is the culmination of a 14-year friendship, rich in meaning and poignant with remembrance.

Gallagher, an instructional facilitator at the Kent Mountainview Academy, along with students of the Kent School District, will be welcoming Gerda Weissman Klein, a renowned human rights speaker and Nazi labor-camp survivor, when she comes to speak June 7 at a holocaust symposium that Gallagher has organized.

Klein, whose memoir "All But My Life" was the basis of the Oscar-winning documentary "One Survivor Remembers," has been a friend of Gallagher's since a chance meeting in 1996 read more...