A few years ago, Helen Gurr was teaching her classroom of gifted sixth-graders about the Holocaust. As the reality of millions of lives lost sank in, one young girl looked up at her teacher and with great emotion demanded to know: “Where were you?”
While Helen was not yet born during the dark days of World War II, the question has stuck with her. This year, she asked herself “Where were you” when peaceful Rohingya farmers and their families were attacked and forced to flee a genocide in Myanmar?
“I was there” to bear witness. “I was there” to learn and share stories of the survivors.