{"id":1997,"date":"2012-05-30T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howlheritage.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2012-05-30T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:57:02","slug":"holocaust-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/howlheritage.com\/blog\/news\/holocaust-survivor\/attachment\/alter-wiener_web-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/howlheritage.com\/media\/2012\/05\/Alter-Wiener_web1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2001\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holocaust survivor Alter Weiner spoke to World History classes on May 17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>By Anna Tomlinson<br \/>\nNews Editor<\/p>\n<p>Alter Wiener\u2019s presentation of his experience through the Holocaust was both emotional and touching. Students currently taking World History or Sophomore English were in attendance for this once-in-a-lifetime assembly.<br \/>\nWiener travels all over Washington and Oregon sharing his story, which is also told in his book, \u201cFrom A Name To A Number\u201d. Wiener\u2019s accounts touched each student in attendance, whose eyes were filled with tears.<br \/>\nBeing unable to complete his schooling during his youth, Wiener wished the students luck, and to promise him to stay in school and work hard.<br \/>\nThough his journey was rough, Wiener looks at his life as a learning experience for others. \u201cI am here to share my story so that you can learn from my suffering,\u201d said Wiener.<br \/>\nHistory teacher Miss. Harris met Mr. Wiener a few years ago. She said, \u201cI was surprised by how much the students wanted him to come\u201d.<br \/>\nHis personality radiant and airy, one would never guess his heartbreak. But regardless of how he carries himself, Wiener does not feel as everyone else does, and said, \u201cI am not a normal person, but I pretend to be\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Tomlinson News Editor Alter Wiener\u2019s presentation of his experience through the Holocaust was both emotional and touching. Students currently taking World History or Sophomore English were in attendance for this once-in-a-lifetime assembly. Wiener travels all over Washington and Oregon sharing his story, which is also told in his book, \u201cFrom A Name To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}