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HMTC Book Club April 10 - The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel [VIRTUAL-ZOOM]

  • Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County 100 Crescent Beach Road Glen Cove, NY, 11542 United States (map)

In a small mountain village in Vichy France, a young Jewish woman who was forced to flee Paris finds a way to survive the Holocaust: forging identity documents for children being smuggled out to Switzerland by the Resistance.  She secretly preserves their records in a hidden book, alongside the vital messages she encodes in it, but when the Nazis destroy the library, she fears it is lost forever. One day though, decades later, a newspaper appears on her desk with a story about a newly discovered book that looks very much like her own. Can she now help reunite those lost during the war?