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Join award-winning author Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman as she presents "On Sunny Days We Sang," her parent's story of survival during the Holocaust. With the destruction of Polish Jewry as a backdrop, she shares the remarkable tale of her parent's lives in war-torn Europe to a safe new life in Venezuela. Best for ages 18 yrs. +. Registration required. For information please contact 305-931-5512 or lefrakp@mdpls.org
Biography:
Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman is a Venezuelan professor, researcher, and writer. She was born in Szczecin, Poland in 1946, to Polish Holocaust survivors who came from Wlodawa. Her family emigrated to Venezuela, settling in Maracaibo. Gelman received her undergraduate degree in French from Wellesley College. In 1970, she went on to receive an MA in Spanish Literature from New York University via their extension program in Madrid and in 1976 was awarded her MA in the teaching of French from the Université de Paris III. She was a professor of French Language and Literature at the Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo from 1971 to 1996.
In 2013 she moved to Miami, Florida with a purpose in mind. As Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor, her parents' trauma was always present in her life and she felt the need to understand what happened to the family she never had. From 2013 to 2018 she was accepted as a Research Scholar at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, focusing on Holocaust studies.
As a result, she wrote On Sunny Days We Sang that was first published in Spanish in 2018 under the title En los días claros cantábamos. It is the author's first full length work, telling the story of her parents' survival in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
AGE GROUP: | Young Adult (12-18) | Older Adults (55+) | Adult (19+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Event | In-Person | Author Event |
TAGS: | Local Author Series |