Tag: Book & Author
On-Site Book & Author: “Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
Join author Meryl Frank, in conversation with Museum Board of Trustees member Denise Foy, about her quest to uncover the truth about her family’s Holocaust story – a journey that began with a Yiddish book her aunt forbade her to read. As a child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt,… Read More
On-Site Graphic Novel Launch: “Hour of Need”
Developed in partnership with Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Hour of Need is a graphic novel that shares the true story of how the people of an occupied nation risked their lives to evacuate their Jewish countrymen. When Nazis moved to round up Danish Jews in a surprise raid in 1943, families were forced… Read More
On-Site Book & Author: “Not a Real Enemy “
A moving tribute by the son of Holocaust Survivors to his parents, Not a Real Enemy tells the true story of Ervin Wolf and his family as the fascist tide of Eastern Europe took hold of Hungary. The book weaves together a narrative that illustrates the Wolf family’s comfortable upper-class life as Hungarian Jews at… Read More
On-Site Book & Author: “A Revolution in the Name of Tradition: Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement”
In the Museum’s special exhibition, The Girl in the Diary, 14-year-old Rywka Lipszyc’s writings include details about her commitment to Bais Yaakov. Formed in interwar Poland in 1917 by Sarah Schenirer as a response to a lack of religious schooling for Jewish girls, Bais Yaakov schools had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society… Read More
Online Lunch & Learn: “The Escape Artist”
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew ever known to engineer his own escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world, and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the… Read More
On-Site Book & Author: “The Tattooed Torah”
Nearly four decades since its initial release, Marvell Ginsburg’s The Tattooed Torah is widely regarded as a quintessential resource for early Holocaust education. A profound story of love, hope, and resilience, The Tattooed Torah recounts the true story of a small Torah from Brno, Czechoslovakia. This beloved illustrated book teaches the Holocaust not just as… Read More
Online Program: Book & Author: “We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration”
Winner of the Maine Literary Award, We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration, is a riveting and awe-inspiring debut novel by author and inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation, Rachael Cerrotti. Cerrotti had always known her grandmother Hana was a Holocaust survivor, but what she discovered – an entire… Read More
Lunch & Learn: “The Watchmakers”
Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland, in 1919. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at an early age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never imagined… Read More
Online Book & Author: “Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival”
Join us in discussion with #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin as he makes his literary return to the aerial battlefields of WWII to tell a harrowing and unforgettable story of heroism and human endurance in his latest book, Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. Based on a true and… Read More
Online Book & Author: “The Ratline”
Join us for a live virtual discussion with Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline. Based on Sands’ successful BBC Radio Podcast, The Ratline delves into the life and mysterious death of Otto von Wächter – a devoted Nazi turned man on the run. Sands and his colleagues uncovered key details about Wächter’s life and family… Read More