Zoom meeting, free for members of JGSGW. Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $10
The author of "How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine" will discuss the research that went into this new book. Author Julie Masis focuses on the fate of Bessarabian (Moldovan) Jews who were under Romanian occupation during WWII. She tells the story from the point of view of her grandfather, Shloima (Shlomo) Masis, a native of Zgurita, Moldova, who survived the Holocaust in a camp in Obodovka, Ukraine, and eventually immigrated to the United States where he lived to the age of 102.
This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $10.
Speaker: Julie Masis is a freelance journalist. Her stories have been published in the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, the Globe and Mail, the Straits Times, the Bangkok Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Journal de Montreal, and on the Reuters wire. Julie holds a degree in International Development Studies from McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. She speaks, reads, and writes fluently in English, French and Russian and can get by in Khmer.
