Join us for a special History and Heritage Class with guest speaker, Julie Brill. She will discuss her book, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia. 

Hidden in Plain Sight tells 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 ninety
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.

“A standout among Holocaust memoirs…It shines a bright light on the children of survivors, providing an
intimate view of the deep trauma inherited and internalized by them, and translated in this case into an
extraordinary book.” -Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University

Click here to order your copy of Hidden in Plain Sight from Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.

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  Meeting ID: 838 7900 5481
  audio only:  (646) 876 - 9923

For more information contact Committee Chair: 
Flo Giltman at lgiltma1@gmail.com

History and Heritage meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month online.

More about the author: Julie Brill has been collecting family stories since she was a little girl. She is a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, doula, and the author of the anthology, Round the Circle: Doulas Share Their
Experiences. Her essays have appeared in various publications, including Haaretz, The Forward, Balkan
Insight, Kveller, Cognoscenti, and Hey Alma. She shares her family’s experiences in the Shoah with
middle and high school students through Living Links.