The Bolivar Central High School Book Club officers pictured (l-r): Historian Kaleb McKinnie, Vice-President Hannah Owens, President Carly Weems, Secretary Jessica Gibson and Sergeant-at-Arms Dallis Williams.

BCHS Book Club to host Holocaust refugee

The Bolivar Central High School (BCHS) Book Club will host speaker Clark Blatteis, a Jewish refugee who was a passenger on the German transatlantic liner St. Louis in 1939. Blatteis was seven years old at the time and one of 937 Jewish refugees, along with his parents, who left Berlin, Germany to escape Nazi persecution.

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