Tag: Book & Author
“Can the Dead Weep for the Dead”? Zalmen Gradowski and the Theology of the Shoah
On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate yet brave uprising that resulted in the death of more than 400 prisoners by day’s end, including Zalmen Gradowski, the author of The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. Written… Read More
Fritzie Fritzshall Book & Author Event: Lisa Barr’s “The Goddess of Warsaw”
Join the Women’s Board of Illinois Holocaust Museum with Deerfield resident and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Barr as she discusses her newest book, The Goddess of Warsaw, a triumphant tale of a Jewish WWII assassin turned Hollywood star. A gripping page-turner with one of history’s most heroic uprisings as the backdrop, The Goddess… Read More
On-Site Book & Author: “The Counterfeit Countess”
The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust is based on the memoir of Dr. Josephine Jahina Mehlberg, a Jewish woman posing as a Polish aristocrat in German-occupied Poland. With guile, cajolery, and steely persistence, the “Countess” persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from Majdanek concentration camp…. Read More
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