Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries during the Holocaust with Alexandra Zapruder

Description

Alexandra Zapruder will discuss her award-winning book, Salvaged Pages, which is collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. She will explore the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust.

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* Program in partnership with the Holocaust Teacher Institute at the University of Miami and Miami Beach JCC.

Alexandra Zapruder Bio:
Alexandra Zapruder is the author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2002), which won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category; and Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film (Twelve, 2016), which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. In 2015 she completed a second paperback edition and a multimedia edition of Salvaged Pages and, in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves, published related educational materials designed for middle and high school teachers. She also curated a permanent exhibition titled And Still I Write: Young Diarists on War and Genocide, which opened at Holocaust Museum Houston in 2019. Her work has been published in Parade, LitHub, Smithsonian, and The New York Times.
Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. A graduate of Smith College, she served on the curatorial team for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors, Remember The Children, Daniel’s Story. She earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995. Currently Alexandra serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR), a nonprofit that develops partnerships with teachers in post-conflict countries to provide training in best practices on human rights, genocide prevention, and Holocaust education.