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URL:https://www.wjcenter.org/events/yom-hashoah-2018/
SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah 2018
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year's Yom HaShoah\, a program of events dedic
 ated to the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Heroism. We welcom
 e Noah Lederman\, author of A World Erased: A Grandson’s Search for His
  Family’s Holocaust Secrets. The award-winning writer's work has been p
 ublished in The Economist\, the Boston Globe\, the Miami Herald\, the San 
 Francisco Chronicle\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, the Chicago Sun-Times\, 
 Slate\, Salon\, the New Republic\, Tablet Magazine\, the Jerusalem Post\, 
 Tikkun\, and elsewhere.\nThe program includes:\n10:30am: Service\n11:15am:
  Brunch\n11:30-12:30pm: Lecture with Noah Lederman\n12:30-1pm: Q&amp\;A an
 d Book Signing\n\n\nAbout the Book\nThis poignant memoir by Noah Lederman\
 , the grandson of Holocaust survivors\, transports readers from his grandp
 arents’ kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s\,
  Noah’s grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But bec
 ause tales of rebellion and death camps gave his father and aunt constant 
 nightmares\, in Noah’s adolescence Grandma would only recount the PG ver
 sion. Noah\, however\, craved the uncensored truth and always felt one rig
 ht question away from their pasts. But when Poppy died at the end of the m
 illennium\, it seemed the Holocaust stories died with him. In the years th
 at followed\, without the love of her life by her side\, Grandma could do 
 little more than mourn.\n\nAfter college\, Noah\, a travel writer\, roamed
  the world for fifteen months with just one rule: avoid Poland. A few miss
 teps in Europe\, however\, landed him in his grandparents’ country. When
  he returned home\, he cautiously told Grandma about his time in Warsaw\, 
 fearing that the past would bring up memories too painful for her to reliv
 e. But\, instead\, remembering the Holocaust unexpectedly rejuvenated her\
 , ending five years of mourning her husband. Together\, they explored the 
 memories—of Auschwitz and a half-dozen other camps\, the Warsaw Ghetto U
 prising\, and the displaced persons camps—that his grandmother had burie
 d for decades. And the woman he had playfully mocked as a child became his
  hero.
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