Please call 312.322.1743 or email rsvp@spertus.edu for program reservations, or for more information about Spertus programs.
This program is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Anne Frank: A History for Today at Spertus Museum.
Author Events and Book Groups
Meet the Author
- Dr. Sean Martin
- Writing Their Lives:
The Worlds of European Jewish Youth Before WWII - Thursday, May 4 at 5:30 pm
- Free
- For reservations call 312.322.1743
- or email rsvp@spertus.edu
How did Jewish children in Europe live before the devastation of World War II? What were their hopes and dreams? What were their fears as they encountered an uncertain future? How much did these children know of what was to come, and how did they face the increasing anti-Semitism of their day? The answers to these questions were left behind in journals and diaries. Author and scholar Sean Martin shares the creative works of these children, works that document diverse pre-war communities and allow us to better appreciate the complex Jewish world that was destroyed.
Dr. Sean Martin, Associate Curator for Jewish History at Western Reserve Historical Society and author of Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939, shares the background to his latest research profiling the activities of Jewish child welfare leaders and the creative works of Jewish children as their lives and communities changed in the years before WWII.
This program is co-sponsored by the Warsaw Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International. A booksigning will follow.