Carla Peperzak is Washington’s 2020 Person of the Year.
For more than 50 years, she wouldn’t talk about her years as a teenage operative in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Washington State University associate history professor Raymond Sun is now helping Carla tell that story.
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Learn more about her life:
Read the article that first connected Raymond Sun and Carla Peperzak.
Read about Carla Peperzak being honored in Olympia.
Video: Carla Peperzak speaks at North Idaho College in 2013.
Video: Carla Peperzak speaks at the Holocaust Center for Humanity in 2017.
Carla Peperzak’s Survivor Encyclopedia page at the Holocaust Center for Humanity
Photo gallery from the 2020 Person of the Year ceremony and reception in Olympia
TVW video from the 2020 Person of the Year ceremony and reception in Olympia