During a recent trip to Washington D.C. RMS eighth-grade students had a chance to learn Holocaust survivor story of survival. Rose-Helene Bester on March 6, 1931 in Paris, France. Rose-Helene was raised by her mother, Rivka Bester, and her grandmother, Sarah Bester who had immigrated to France from Warsaw, Poland in the late 1920s. Fearing gas attacks from the Germans, Rose-Helene, Sarah, and Rose-Helene’s cousin, Bernard. The family found refuge in Savigny-sur-Braye where Rose-Helene and Bernard attended school. After the invasion, France was divided into two main zones: the north and Atlantic coast of France occupied by the Germans, including Paris; and the south of France which was unoccupied. A new collaborationist government known as Vichy France governed the country. Both the German occupiers and the government of Vichy France issued restrictions on Jews. In October 1940, Vichy France instituted antisemitic legislation, defining Jews by race. In June 1942, the Germans and…