Learning about the Holocaust, no matter how dulled down, is gruesome

Since they are only in the fifth grade, of course Madame has to simplify the whole concepts and not give a whole lot of detail...

One girl, Valerie, was making a word search for the Holocaust and was weeping to herself.

• I wonder if she was sad before starting to make the wordsearch, or if the process of making it was causing her to cry...this isn't super clear to me.