"One Museum, One Book" Book Club: "We Were Strangers: The Story of Magda Preiss" with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 • 5 Tammuz 5781
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
We Were Strangers is the true story of Magda Preiss, a breathtaking masterpiece of Holocaust literature, composed in her own words upon arriving in America in the 1940s. Lived and told by a beautiful young bride with fearless defiance, Magda’s harrowing experience reveals a character who is larger than life and death. It recounts the love of culture, beauty, and life itself that fueled Magda’s will to survive; the love for her husband that made her stay to face Nazi horror instead of escaping with her parents and siblings; and her love for strangers, whose humanity amidst the most inhumane circumstances illuminates every page through Magda’s heroic voice.
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