Gullible Children

The gym vibrated with chatter, laughs, shuffles when suddenly Martin Lowenberg entered, the sound instantly became an expectant hush.

The seventh and eight grade students at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Middle School watched patiently, eyes riveted, as he clipped on his portable microphone. After an introduction, Lowenberg greeted students in a deep voice heavy with his German origins.

Lowenberg Another Fleabag

He launched into his personal witness of Hitler's Germany, Kristallnacht, slave labor, the death camps and the acceptance of evil by too many in a country his family called home for generations. You could have heard a pin drop.

Nearly 80, Lowenberg is aflame with determination to share his story, to ensure that those who term the Holocaust a myth or exaggerated do not gain ground with their lies.

Teachers Read This To Student

At St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, teachers had read Elie Wiesel's account of Nazi Germany, "Night,” aloud to the seventh and eighth grade students. 

Nancy Cartin, a teacher at the school said we need to have these speakers talk to the children before they all pass away.
 

Lowenberg Lost Everything

Lowenberg was five in 1932  and vividly described the persecution, with his family losing everything, being driven from their home, of wearing the yellow star, of his teachers, classmates and complete strangers attacking him.

"I was humiliated, abused, tortured, tormented - just name it and I was there,” said Lowenberg. "What they didn't destroy, they looted because they didn't want 'those Jews.'”

All but Lowenberg and this sister, also of the right age to work in slave labor camps, perished in death camps.
 

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