FREE EVENT

Qesher Book Club:

Stumbling Blocks

Tuesday, December 9

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

Stumbling Blocks, a second-generation Holocaust memoir, tells Jennifer's and Paul's stories. Paul, Jennifer's father, was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of ten, just after Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his older sisters to Belgium. There, they lived for two years with relatives they barely knew. In 1941, Paul's parents reunited with the children and fled Germany. When Jennifer was born in the 1950s, she was called a lucky girl. She was born at a time of relative peace and safety. But she felt the presence of the people left behind, whose incomplete histories were told in fragments. Was this because no one knew what happened? Or was someone trying to protect her? Stumbling Blocks is Jennifer's journey to find truth and meaning from the legacy of the Holocaust.

You can read more and order the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Stumbling-Blocks-Jennifer-Krebs/dp/B0FBBGP1H6/

About the Author

Jennifer Krebs is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York's Catskills mountains. A second-generation Holocaust descendant, she draws on her family's lived experience to explore the legacy of memory, trauma, and resilience. She has traveled to visit her family's homes in Europe. She has been speaking about her Jewish identity and second-generation experience since her childhood. She is semi-retired from a career working to study and protect the natural resources of the Bay Area. Stumbling Blocks is her debut memoir.

RECORDING INFORMATION

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

It will be available without a time limit