After the witnesses are gone: How to bring Holocaust education home for a new generation

By: Chad Gibbs

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: January 26, 2026

Words: 1,188

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on American shores as a refugee in 1949.

After retirement from his dry-cleaning business, Engel focused his later years on Holocaust education.

As part of these efforts, he took to sitting on downtown park benches …

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