Sunday, November 8
2-4 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Room 215
(Second floor in Adaptive Service Division)
901 G Street NW
Washington, DC

Author Eugene Bergman, a retired English professor at Gallaudet University, will discuss his recently published memoir of  the Holocaust.

Book description:

"This vividly detailed memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and, along with his family, continuously dodging the ever-present threat of a Nazi capture.

"After the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Bergman family's hometown became an increasingly dangerous city in which to live, as evidenced by the author's account of being struck deaf by the butt of a German officer's rifle while playing in the street with other children. Though traumatic and certainly life-threatening, this vicious attack would ultimately save his life several times. The story continues with vivid accounts of the family's narrow escapes to (and from) the Lodz, Warsaw, and Czestochowa ghettos, describing some of the more horrific vignettes of life in the Jewish ghetto and detailing how some members of the family survived through a fortuitous combination of luck, skilled deception, and an underlying will to live."

For more information, contact Library Services for the Deaf Community:  Voice (direct) (202) 727-2145;  Voice (via Video Relay Service) 866-570-7364 and ask for Janice Rosen;  videophone (direct) (202) 559-5368; TTY (202) 727-2255; or email  library_deaf_dc@yahoo.com.