Holocaust survivor to Westfield students: Pass on my story to help prevent genocide Eva Safier Wiener was 10 months old when she and her parents boarded the M.S. St. Louis, a German transatlantic liner docked in Hamburg and bound for Cuba. It was May 1939 and the Safiers were among more than 900 Jewish passengers desperate to get out of Nazi Germany. Wiener told her harrowing story to Westfield’s Edison Intermediate School students on Jan. 28, via a live stream into the classrooms arranged by teachers Jacqueline Messinger and Sarah Lazarus, in coordination with the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest...
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