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EB teacher wins prestigious Holocaust research fellowship

EAST BRUNSWICK — When it comes to studying the Holocaust, East Brunswick High School teacher Robert Gangi said the more you learn, the more you find there is to learn.

This summer Gangi, 39, will have the opportunity to learn even more about the Holocaust as he was recently named anAl- fred Lerner fellow by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteousness. The Freehold resident will join 35 other educators from the United States, Poland and Croatia for a five-day program at Columbia University, where he will study the history of the Holocaust with some of the top scholars in the field and explore new ways to teach the subject to students.

“I feel very honored,” Gangi said. “This is a very prestigious award.”

Gangi said he developed an interest in the Holocaust as an undergraduate, taking many classes in European History. Soon Gangi said he started to ponder one central question that gravitated him toward the study of the Holocaust:

“Who were the people that would have done something like this?”

From this central question stemmed even more: How could a civilized world tolerate something like this? What was it like to experience the Holocaust?

“There’s so many different facets, so many different ways of thinking, so many different avenues of study in this that it is endlessly fascinating,” he said.

Gangi’s interest with the Holocaust has led to prestigious scholarship opportunities all around the world. He attended the Museum Teacher Fellows Program at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,

D.C. and has participated in other Holocaust programs in Israel and Poland. He has also studied in Turkey in 2004 as part of a Fulbright scholarship for teachers.

But Gangi said these opportunities are not only personally meaningful. He said they help him as a teacher as well.

“I take [what I learn] directly into the classroom and I think it makes me a better teacher and creates a better class for my students,” Gangi said.

Gangi teaches a popular elective class entitled “Genocide and the Modern World” at East Brunswick High School. The class delves into some of examples of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries including the Armenian Genocide, Darfur, Rwanda and the Holocaust. The class shows that genocide, unfortunately, is not a historic phenomenon or something of the ancient past, he said.

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