Book Discussion: Finding Kalman In-Person
Join us for a discussion of Finding Kalman: A Boy in Six Million by Roz Jacobs and Anna Huberman Jacobs. This book discussion is in collaboration with the month-long Holocaust exhibit, The Memory Project: Messages from Survivors. During this discussion we will view part of the documentary, Finding Kalman, discuss the book and have time to view the exhibit. Copies of Finding Kalman book may be obtained in the Reading Group Choices collection or by placing holds from the online public catalog. Please register online.
- Date:
- Monday, March 18, 2024
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Dutcher Community Room
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Art, Music, and Movies Book Groups and Literature Discussions
Anna Jacobs, a charismatic Holocaust survivor, inspires her family to connect to relatives they never met. Anna recounts tales of her younger brother Kalman, a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her. After the war, Anna learns she is the only surviving member of her family, and her borther Kalman was never found. Finding Kalman: A Boy In Six Million weaves Anna’s story of escape and survival with her daughter Roz’s desire to have a purposeful life, to answer destruction through the act of creating. Kalman’s voice, though silenced, remains loud in the lives of both mother and daughter in this story of memory, self-discovery and creation. The book is appropriate for grades 5 and up. It's a beautiful mother-daughter dialogue about growing up and sharing a difficult past with love and optimism.
2012; 51 pages.