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SUMMARY:"I Seek a Kind Person" — Advertising and the Kindertransport Rescue Operation
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nJulian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, May 31 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nJulian Borger is The Guardian‘s senior international correspondent based in London. He served as The Guardian‘s Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and in Washington as bureau chief and then global affairs editor.  He was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Snowden files. He also won the 2016 One World Media press award for Syria’s Truth Smugglers\, about the war crimes of the Assad regime. He has written two books: The Butcher’s Trail (2016) about the manhunt for Balkan war crimes\, and I Seek A Kind Person (2024) about Jewish children saved from the Nazis with the help of newspaper ads. \nEric Schlosser is an investigative journalist and best-selling author who will be in dialogue with Julian Borger. He is the author of Fast Food Nation\, Reefer Madness\, and\, most recently\, Command and Control\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for Rolling Stone\, The Atlantic\, and The New Yorker\, among others\, and has received a number of journalism honors\, including a National Magazine Award. Schlosser previously worked as a playwright for an independent film company. Two of his plays\, Americans (2003) and We the People (2007)\, have been produced in renowned London theaters. \nMelissa Hacker\, moderator\, is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. She is a filmmaker whose documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. A sought-after speaker\, she has consulted on the exhibits Rescuing Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna at the Vienna Jewish Museum. She is the editor of two Academy Award nominated documentary films and serves on the Executive Committee and Governing Board of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. \nxxxxx \nRegistration will close on Thursday\, May 28 at 10 PM ET. Instructions and links will be emailed to all registrants on Friday\, May 29 and again on the day of the program. \n \nxxxxx \nThis program is co-sponsored by the Kindertransport Association.
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion,Lecture
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