{"id":42144,"date":"2026-05-02T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?p=42144"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:20:45","slug":"holocaust-talk-swansea-freshman-academy-may-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/holocaust-talk-swansea-freshman-academy-may-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Talk Swansea Freshman Academy May 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 1, 2026<br \/>\nFor the second consecutive year, English teacher Emily Taylor (Swansea Freshman Academy, Swansea SC) has invited us to come and speak to the entire 9th grade class about our books.\u00a0 In preparation for our appearance, students could choose one of our books and were subsequently assigned homework that involved critical thinking questions about the content.\u00a0 (see social media post below)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/swansea-post-250x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/swansea-post-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/swansea-post.png 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was joined by second generation survivor Karl Goldberg who spoke passionately about his parents (Bluma and Felix) and the horrific experiences they went through during six years of World War II: 1939-1945.\u00a0 \u00a0Students listened intently and asked many questions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-sp-eaks-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-sp-eaks-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-sp-eaks-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-sp-eaks-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-sp-eaks-1536x710.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-sp-eaks.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-42149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/frank-speaks-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/frank-speaks-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/frank-speaks-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/frank-speaks-1.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 1, 2026 For the second consecutive year, English teacher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-popular"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42150,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions\/42150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}