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Dawn Penich-Thacker, Ph.D. Profile picture
Dawn Penich-Thacker, Ph.D.
@DoctorRhetorica
“Devastatingly effective”
Jan 28, 2022 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
I was 15 when I learned my family (Catholic Croatian Yugoslavians) had survived Dachau, the longest running concentration camp in Nazi Germany. 🧵 I was watching Schindler's List with my grandfather Franjo Penic, and at some point I looked over to see him weeping and shaking. I was stunned. Here's the stoic patriarch of the family whom I'd never known to show any emotion but patient neutrality or lighthearted joviality.