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Holocaust presentations enlighten students
Peter Uhlmann has been speaking in classrooms to keep dark period in history alive PAUL GALINSKI reporter@prpeak.com
IMPORTANT MEMORIAL: Retired psychiatrist Dr. Peter Uhlmann took a trip to Bad Driburg, the hometown in Germany of his parents and family for generations, with grandchildren Wrenwin Angell [left] and Banks Burr. The family is pictured standing by a memorial in the city on the main street for Jewish people of the town who were killed by the Nazis. Uhlmann has been going to local schools to speak about how the holocaust affected his family. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO WATERFRONT
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