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   The Washington, D.C., public school librarian who made third graders   
   reenact graphic scenes from the Holocaust is a Democrat who claims   
   she ran for office in New Jersey, where she was convicted of   
   defrauding the state through a tutoring scam and charged with   
   several counts of animal abuse.   
      
   Kimberlynn Jurkowski was placed on leave this week after parents   
   complained to Watkins Elementary School that she made students   
   role-play the Holocaust, assigning students to be Jews and pretend   
   to die in gas chambers and dig mass graves, according to the   
   Washington Post. One student was assigned to be Adolf Hitler, who   
   carried out the Holocaust, Jurkowski told the students, "because the   
   Jews ruined Christmas." A Washington Free Beacon investigation found   
   that Jurkowski was hired by the D.C. public school after a   
   scandalous tenure as a librarian in New Jersey, where she ran in   
   2010 for a local school board as a Democrat, according to an image   
   posted to her Twitter account.   
      
   There is no record of Jurkowski serving on the school board for   
   Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, where she says she ran for   
   office. There is record, however, of New Jersey catching Jurkowski   
   bilking taxpayers out of approximately $24,000 through a program   
   designed to help the children of the state's educators. The Hamilton   
   Township district paid for Jurkowski's two children to receive   
   tutoring—but she continued to bill the district for reimbursements   
   once the tutoring stopped. She was convicted of fraud and forced to   
   forfeit her librarian job, according to court records.   
      
   Jurkowski's legal problems continued in 2019 when she faced four   
   charges of animal cruelty for leaving her dogs out in the cold.   
   According to coverage at the time from Pet Rescue Report, Jurkowski   
   left five dogs behind to survive frigid temperatures in a   
   dilapidated environment. Body camera footage from police officers   
   called to the site shows "the entire property was completely run   
   down," with "dogs in pens with sheets of plywood leaning against a   
   fence to act as shelter."   
      
   One of the dogs, an older Rottweiler named Poseidon, could barely   
   walk, and was found dead and frozen solid to the ground in one of   
   the pens. The dog's death prompted animal rights activists to launch   
   a #JusticeForPoseidon campaign.   
      
   The principal of Watkins Elementary School, Scott Berkowitz, did not   
   return a request for comment on Jurkowski. D.C. Public Schools did   
   not respond to multiple requests for comment, including about   
   whether it was familiar with Jurkowski’s criminal record prior to   
   hiring her.   
      
   Since working in D.C. Public Schools, Jurkowski has struck an   
   ultra-partisan combative tone online. Her Twitter account is filled   
   with retweets of calls to abolish the police and defend Palestinian   
   terrorism. One Al Jazeera post she shared claims that a Palestinian   
   terrorist named Ahmad Erekat was killed by Israeli police but fails   
   to mention that he was shot after ramming his car into Israelis.   
      
   Watkins Elementary School is located just outside a city ward   
   represented by a Democratic lawmaker who claimed that Jews control   
   the weather.   
      
   https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dc-librarian-who-made-children-   
   reenact-holocaust-is-failed-dem-candidate-convicted-fraudster-and-   
   animal-abuser/   
      
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