Plot

Simon discovers friendly, generous old neighbor Charlotte Kerjesz has a concentration camp tattoo. Eric forbids Simon to ask her to help for a history assignment but realizes his son is right after hearing classmate Larry's father spreads holocaust denial. The Camdens are excited to meet Joanne, Matt's first girl since Heather dumped him. Considering her 'too perfect', jealous Lucy and Mary decoded flippantly to hate and ignore her. Joanne overhears them and dumps Matt over his lousy siblings, which stands even after apologies.—KGF Vissers

Mary, Lucy, and Ruthie all learn that mere words can easily hurt people, and Simon befriends a Holocaust survivor and urges her to share her story with his class as part of a homework assignment.