Dear fellow ha-Safran members - I would like to let you know about the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, which focuses on our newest book, "The Auschwitz Volunteer." The program is entitled:
"Captain Witold Pilecki and the Resistance in Auschwitz" Featuring Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Director of Research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and Dr. Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History, Yale University. In commemoration of 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the Polish Embassy, is presenting this program about the incredible story of Witold Pilecki, whose report on Auschwitz we have just translated into English and published as "The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery," with a foreword by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, and an Introduction by Professor Norman Davies. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum, writing in The New Republic, calls it "extraordinary," and says "Pilecki's depiction of life in Auschwitz and his description of opposition in Auschwitz deserves to be read alongside the accounts of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel." http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/111235/evil-after-evil The New York Times Sunday Book Review, in a review by Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, says, "Pilecki's report on Auschwitz, unpublishable for decades in Communist Poland and now translated into English.is a historical document of the greatest importance." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/books/review/the-auschwitz-volunteer-by-wi told-pilecki.html?ref=books&_r=0 Watch the book trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGsIdhG3tBE For more info about the book: www.AquilaPolonica.com Event Details: DATE: Sunday, January 27, 2013 TIME: 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. PLACE: Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, District of Columbia 20024 COST: Free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. FOR MORE INFO and TO RESERVE: http://www.cvent.com/events/captain-witold-pilecki-and-the-resistance-in-aus chwitz/event-summary-2e7f8153e10b4581be3a51a784e3bf8f.aspx Thank you, and best regards to all, Terry Tegnazian President Aquila Polonica Publishing 10850 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel: 310-470-0770 Fax: 310-470-0782 Email: terry at aquilapolonica.com Website: www.AquilaPolonica.com; www.PolandWW2.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PolandWW2 Twitter: http://twitter.com/polandww2 Aquila Polonica Publishing is dedicated to publishing, in English, the Polish experience of World War II with first-hand accounts, memoirs, photographs, artwork, poetry, literature and historical studies. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
