Diaries of ordinary people written throughout the war, letters between lovers separated by the Atlantic Ocean, these are powerful written testimonies that two authors used to explore Holocaust experiences.
Join us on May 15th, for a virtual book talk at 12 pm EST with Nina Siegal author of Diary Keepers and Sarah Wildman author of Paper Love. The discussion will be moderated by Sarah Fogg, the Head of Marketing, Communications, and PR at the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
- Discussion in English on Zoom
- Reservations required
- May 15th at noon (EST)
Through Diary Keepers, Nina Siegal offers a riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries, The Diary Keepers illuminates history through diverse personal testimonies, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily life at a transit camp.
Paper Love is Sarah Wildman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory. Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A–G.” What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel—her grandfather’s lover, who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.
In partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Canada.
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