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a crowded, noisy courtyard in Warsaw in 1939. Soldiers were screaming, and crowds, his neighbors, were being loaded into boxcars. Suddenly, Elbaum’s mom, Pauline, appeared out of the crowd, waving a paper in front of the German guards. She worked in a ghetto factory making uniforms for the Nazis, and had managed to get her manager to sign a reprieve for her family – even though the entire block where the his family lived was being shipped off that day. George Elbaum shares his story of survival

foothills of San Jose, Calif. with her fiancé, two horses and two mules. In her spare time, Wold takes care of her animals and enjoys trail riding with her fiancé. She also makes time to get together with Nowadnick and their group of close friends for annual reunions. Read Previous German-language Advent service Read Next KPLU names new general manager COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private

thing, but I felt that having the opportunity to go to Germany with a German speaker was much better than someone who wasn’t fluent with the language,” she said of her trip last year. “And global relations, especially now, are just so important to understanding the rest of the world.” The curriculum for the PLU MBA program includes a 10-day international experience, which began in 2007 with a trip to France. Some of the other countries included in the itineraries since then have been China, Vietnam

until the end of the war, said Hewett, who was a teenager at the time of the rescues. Hewett describes her parents as strong and dedicated people who had amazing stories even before the war. André Trocmé was born to a strict Calvinist father and a German Lutheran mother, and became a Protestant minister and dedicated pacifist. Because he was a conscientious objector, he was marginalized by the leaders of the French Protestant church. Magda Grilli di Cortona was Italian on her father’s side, Russian

at PLU.” Tjiramba began his journey at PLU in 1990. To get here, he competed with more than 800 of his fellow high-school graduates in a study-abroad program put together by Namibian Lutheran churches in collaboration with their American and German counterparts. Tjiramba majored in Communication at PLU, went on to earn a Master’s Degree from California State University-Fullerton and just this year graduated from the University of Namibia with a degree in law. Tjiramba’s Namibian PLU colleagues

humanities can and should learn from the living presence and complex reality of non-human animals. And the “intellectual and aesthetic transformations” that our teaching makes possible are reflected in the pedagogical insights of professors Jen Jenkins and Kirsten Christensen, who explain their interdisciplinary approach to teaching the literature and cultural history of the German-speaking world. The Energizing Challenge of Diversity In 1993, Dean Paul Menzel noted the division’s concerted efforts to

programs, Europe will host four groups of students this winter. With a German Studies class going to Germany, an Education class to Hungary, and Literature and Religion classes to Greece, students will explore all corners of the continent. In Europe, students will experience everything from student teaching in Budapest to home-stays in Berlin and weekend trips to the Greek islands of Santorini and Rhodes. North America J-Term Study Away programs don’t always mean students are leaving the country; they