Jews and Serbia: A Zoom Conversation with Julie Brill

May 8, 2025, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Join writer and podcaster Barbara Richter for a conversation on zoom with author Julie Brill to uncover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history: The Jews of Serbia. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars. Eager to fill a historical and emotional void, Brill pieces together her father’s memories, leading to powerful trips with him through Belgrade, that provide a deeper understanding of her identity. She unearths her family’s lost Serbian past, learns secrets, and returns to her dad a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.

In Julie’s book, Hidden in Plain Sight, Julie Brill brings us along as she searches for her family’s fate in Serbia during the Holocaust. The result is a compassionate, meticulously researched, and powerful testament to the need to uncover our histories and tell our stories.

To register and receive the Zoom link, please fill out the form: https://wjcenter.shulcloud.com/form/jews-and-serbia-zoom