Day two began with me driving in morning traffic on the express way....a lot of praying and a little crying (only a little)and I made it! I was early for class but that gave me a chance to check out the library. Class began with a discussion about Hitler coming to power and then at 11:00 we had a survivor speak to us. Inga Karo was 10 yrs old in 1939 when her family left Germany for the US. She was from a very wealthy family and had relatives in the US so they we're able to book passage out of Europe. They lost everything, business, home, savings and possessions. She told us how she was discriminated against as a young child in school, having to give up her library card, not being able to go to the park or the movies. During the pogrom kristallanacht her home was targeted to be burned down but a German officer came to the door and told her parents that he was taking their house for his son and new wife and if they signed it over to him (for free of course) then he would find them a new place to live. Her parents had no choice so her father then got passage for them to leave-but it took a year to get the tickets and paperwork in order. The boat would only take American money and they could not get a visa for her grandfather-he perished in Auschwitz just a month before liberation. She and her parents and brother lived in NY for a while but her father could not find work so they moved to Philadelphia. When Inga was 60 years old she put herself through college, graduating with a degree in writing. In 2001 the town of Essen, Germany where they lived when she was little invited her and some other survivors back- she went but felt it was really a show on the part of the Germans- like they were correcting their past mistakes by having them come back in a show of goodwill. I personally found that to be quite rude on the part of the Germans- kind of disgusting....we finished the day with watching some clips of films that were made in the 1930's as a form of propaganda for the nazis- quite eye opening..... Inga was the best part of the day she was a very small soft spoken lady who was very gracious and forgiving towards the nazis, really quite amazing......