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Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Date: 26 August, 2019

Cost: Free

Event Category: Bilingual/Multilingual , Community Events

Website: https://www.facebook.com/CanadianFriendsofRabbisforHumanRights/

Location: Gelber Conference Centre—Montreal, Phone: 514-345-2605 Venue WebsiteView map

To mark the anniversary of the liberation of Paris, join us for a presentation from award-winning author Anne Nelson about her account of Suzanne Spaak, Righteous Among Nations.
• Presentation (in English),
• Bilingual Q&A
• Book sale and signing

One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—this nail-biting drama of a woman who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz “vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality” (The Wall Street Journal).

About the Author
Anne Nelson also authored Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler; Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up; and The Guys: A Play. She is a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She teaches at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs in New York City.

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Canadian Friends of Rabbis for Human Rights in partnership with the Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Labour Zionist Circle, the Jewish Public Library and the Jewish Community Foundation.

 

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