Submitted by the San Juan Island Library.

The San Juan Island Library is excited to host a special history presentation by Holocaust and human rights historian and educator David Reeser as he delves into the “Children of the Holocaust.”

The program will examine the plight of children and adolescents in the Holocaust as they suffered, hid and ultimately resisted the Nazis by trying to survive. Participants will be introduced to youth who suffered depredations in the ghettos, who tried to pass as “Aryan” and who had to abandon a normal childhood in order to work as slave laborers for the Nazis.

Reeser teaches high school government, AP government and classes on the Holocaust and human rights. He was a museum teacher fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the 2016-2017 year; traveled to Israel, Germany and Poland with the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program in 2011; studied with The Olga Lengyel Institute in 2014; and took students to Europe for a Holocaust tour for the first time in 2024. He lives in Rexburg, Idaho, with his wife and dogs.

The presentation will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 16 at the San Juan Island Library.