BookSwell

What is gained and what is lost when history is appropriated, and misappropriated, by filmmakers, novelists, and other creative artists? With stunning video clips and dramatic photographs, Emmy Award-nominated producer Joshua M. Greene explores existential and pedagogical issues surrounding the transmission of Holocaust memory. The audience is challenged to reconsider beloved movies and books by hearing an informed exposition of what lies behind the messages of popular media. The program features excerpts from Academy-Award-winning movies, scenes from Mr. Greene’s acclaimed documentary, “Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” as well as cite the first-person accounts of witnesses that were woven in the narrative of the book of the same name. RSVP for complimentary tickets.

Two sisters: one deaf, one hearing -- this is their true story. Joshua M. Greene and Renee Hartman co-wrote this haunting memoir of Renee's early life when she and sister Herta, faced the unimaginable -- together. After their parents are taken away by Nazis in Czechoslovakia, Renee, who could hear, and Herta, who was deaf, go on the run, only to be captured and sent to Bergen-Belsen. The two have to fight to survive the darkest of times together. Join author Joshua M. Greene, in conversation with HMLA's Chief Impact Officer Jordanna Gessler. ASL interpretation provided.