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Speaker Series: Memoir of the Holocaust on Tuesday at 7:30


Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust

Michael Gruenbaum
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

7:30pm Talk









You are invited to view at your leisure and in advance of our Zoom discussion a recently produced video co-presented by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., and Ancestry featuring Michael Gruenbaum. Learn about his inspiring story, and how preserving Holocaust evidence and researching family trees can deepen our understanding of history. Michael will join us for what promises to be a deeply moving and memorable program. View the video at https://youtu.be/aI88ZR6EcMU.
















 


Gruenbaum
Michael Gruenbaum was born in 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1942, he was sent to the concentration camp Theresienstadt or Terezin, with his mother and sister, and remained there until the end of the war.  He immigrated to the United States  in 1950 from Cuba, graduated from MIT and Yale, served two years in the Army,  and worked for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Mass. Dept. of Public Works, before co-founding a consulting firm. 







Michael is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir 
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun, published by Simon & Schuster, and now available in 17 languages. He was married for 50 years to the late Thelma Gruenbaum, author with Michael of Nesarim: Child Survivors of Terezin, and has three sons and four grandchildren. Visit him at MichaelGruenbaum.com.







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When:
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 7:30 PM
Where:
Zoom

, MA  
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Joyce S Wadlington
Category:
Speaker Series
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