Event

Memoir Panel

Moderator: Dr. J.L. Kemp, Associate Professor of
Psychology, McKendree University

Eve Keller
TWO RINGS: A Story of Love and War

Fordham University Professor Keller shares the moving memoir of Holocaust survivor Millie Werber, a teenage girl in love and struggling to survive the ghetto, slave labor and Auschwitz, while cherishing a brief, passionate love, during the darkest days
of WWII.

Leslie Maitland
CROSSING THE BORDERS OF TIME: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

A German Jewish girl is torn from the Catholic Frenchman she loves and pressed on board the last refugee ship departing France in 1942, beginning a moving tale of history, adventure, a world at war, and a daughter's search for love that crossed the borders of time. Award-winning Former NY Times investigative reporter and national correspondent, Maitland shares her family's story.

Susan Resnick
YOU SAVED ME, TOO: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish

A chance meeting at a Jewish Community Center created a bond between Resnick, a professor of writing at Brown University, and Holocaust survivor Aron Lieb. Resnick's memoir chronicles a powerful friendship and sharing of souls that offers a new way to discuss the Holocaust, and a reminder to honor survivors and keep memories alive.

Sponsored by Nancy & Al Siwak; Todd Siwak & Gianna Jacobson

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