FREE EVENT

Qesher Book Club:

Hidden in Plain Sight:
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia

Tuesday, May 20

USA 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET

UK 8:00 pm / France 9:00 pm / Israel 10:00 pm

The talk will last approximately 60 minutes

About this talk

In Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, the reader will discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter's enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth.

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. Through exacting research, a bit of luck, and three emotional trips to Serbia, she pieces together her family's lost past, unearths secrets, and returns to her father a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.

You can read more and order the book here: https://juliebrill.com/

About the Author

Julie Brill has been collecting family stories since she was a little girl. With so few Jewish survivors and descendants from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the story of the Shoah there has gone mostly untold. Julie's quest to understand and share what she learned led to Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia.

Julie's writing has appeared in Ha'aretz, Times of Israel, Kveller, The Forward, and elsewhere. She shares her family experiences in the Holocaust in middle and high school classrooms through Living Links. The mother of two adult daughters, Julie lives outside of Boston.


Follow her on Twitter @JulieBrill8 and Instagram @JulieSBrill.

RECORDING INFORMATION

This talk will be recorded and shared with registrants the day after. 

It will be available without a time limit.