When I have a feeling I will want to re-read a newspaper article, I cut it out and put it in my clippings file. When I re-read the article, I sometimes find myself jotting down ideas or writing down what I learned from reading the article. One such article was a New York Times article by Sally McGrane: “How One Berliner Battles Hate: With Conscience and a Sharp Scraper.” I learned about Irmela Mensah-Schramm who lives in Berlin, Germany. She is a retired teacher, who taught children with severe disabilities. She was born in 1945, at the tail end of World War II. In the early 1980s, when she was…