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SUMMARY:Speaker Annette Libeskind Berkovits and Brunch
DESCRIPTION:Conversation (and Brunch) with Annette Libeskind Berkovits in t
 he Activity Center (11:00am)\n Please join us for a fascinating conversati
 on with Annette Libeskind Berkovits\, acclaimed author\, poet and scientis
 t. Annette will speak about her nomadic childhood and her remarkable famil
 y’s story of survival\, resilience\, adaptation and ultimately triumph a
 s they navigated devastation and dislocation in the years before\, during 
 and after the Holocaust.\n\nAnnette was born in Soviet Kyrgyzstan in 1943 
 to parents who fled east in harrowing journeys when WWII broke out\; she g
 rew up in postwar Poland and the fledgling state of Israel before coming t
 o America at age sixteen. She spent three decades as a science educator at
  the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York before turning to writing. 
 Annette is the sister of internationally renowned architect Daniel Libeski
 nd.\n\nAnnette’s books include her childhood memoir\, Aftermath: Coming 
 of Age on Three Continents\; her father’s story\, In the Unlikeliest Pla
 ces: How Nachman Libeskind survived the Nazis\, Gulags\, and Soviet Commun
 ism\; and The Corset Maker\, a historical novel inspired by her mother’s
  life.
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