Tag: Carla Olman Peperzak

Peperzak Middle School will soon receive an Anne Frank tree saplings to be planted on the campus this spring. The school surprised its namesake and local Holocaust survivor, Carla Olman Peperzak, with the news on her 101st birthday celebration at the school on Thursday.

This week’s Roundup largely summarizes state and local government decisions and school board policies that fit our niche of ethical and social justice news. Religion stories and updates in our region? Not so much — with the exception of Carla Olman Peperzak and how WSU plans to honor her Holocaust work.

April may become designated as International Holocaust and Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month within the state of Washington, courtesy of the efforts of several members of the Washington State Legislature.

This post is about Washington State Christians making national headlines, YWCA of Spokane launching an online Racial Justice Challenge and the opening of a Spokane middle school named after local Holocaust survivor, Carla Olman Peperzak.

A Spokane great-grandmother will be honored in Olympia soon for her work as a teenage Dutch Resistance operative during World War II.