Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - All Day Event
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Author Talk: The Story Keeper by Fred Feldman
Tuesday, February 22nd 8-9pm
Sponsored by UNH Genealogy Club
Interested in learning more about the Holocaust, immigration, genealogy, history, or storytelling? Genealogy Club is sponsoring an author talk and Q&A with Fred Feldman the author of The Story Keeper. Fred is a Holocaust survivor born in Azerbaijan and an immigrant to America who became a Chief Science Officer: The book relates adversities he and his parents experienced from eluding German armies and struggling to survive during WW2 across vast expanses of Soviet territory, to the uncertainties in displaced persons camps, and to the challenges faced in arriving in America in 1949 as Holocaust survivors.
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See below for further information about Fred and his book. His book is available for purchase at getbook.at/StoryKeeper. Contact sawyer.rogers@unh.edu with any questions.
Sincerely,
Sawyer Rogers
UNH Genealogy Club
The memoir dramatically traces the roots and challenges of family through memories and interviews and extensive genealogical research at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, at the Family History Museum, the genealogical arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, and archives in the U.S., Poland, and Israel. The stories, photographs, and history are documented and amazingly related. The storyteller is directly involved in this history and the events. In that sense, it’s as much a story as a history with the reader in the middle of the events as they happen. The book reveals not only the tragedies of the times lived, but the overwhelming sense of hope that accompanied those times and the drive to realize the hope that’s so important to many around the world today. It places today’s turbulence in the context of the challenges faced and overcome yesterday, making the story not just one of the history of prior war and survival but one of hope that can be realized.
The memoir weaves stories within stories, of times within times, of loss of place and home, of danger and striving of migration across vast distances, of always new beginnings. An epic tale, yet memoir, faced by one family, yet reminiscent of the stories of many displaced peoples today across the globe. The central theme of remembrance, of family and unbroken ties across generations, warms your hear and give you hope that today’s broken world can still be put back together.
Reviews:
“Spellbinding; a quest for family history/stories of survival; ultimately without a time and without a place; exemplifies the universal search for understanding of man’s inhumanity to man and of how to survive and overcome that inhumanity.”
- Abraham D. Sofaer; Professor emeritus, Stanford University
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“A remarkable book that weaves together two intimately connected journeys - to reconstruct his parents’ harrowing escape from Hitler’s clutches; to discover the fate of his parents’ extended families in Europe, the United States, and Israel; and to celebrate his parents’ determination to build a new life for their children in America. A memoir of heartbreak and hope, of Nazi barbarism and Jewish fortitude, of struggle and accomplishment in a new land of freedom and opportunity, The Story Keeper above all tells a gripping tale stretching across decades of a son’s deepening understanding of, and gratitude for, his parents’ love and courage.”
- Peter Berkowitz; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; American political scientist; former law professor; U.S. Department of State
