The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home
Reading and Talk by Erin Einhorn

Monday, October 27, 2008
7:30 pm
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
(415) 567-3327

Erin Einhorn’s mother was saved as a child during World War II by a Polish woman who hid her at the risk of her own life. Fifty-five years later, Einhorn, a newspaper reporter and contributor to NPR’s This American Life, traveled to Poland to find the family that had sheltered her mother. In the process she finds herself enmeshed in a decades-old land dispute: the son of the woman who sheltered her mother claims that they had been promised their house in exchange for hiding the little girl and asks Einhorn’s help in fulfilling that promise. What started as a simple journey of discovery soon becomes a bewildering trek through half a century of hurt feelings, resentments, and mountains of archival records.

Erin Einhorn is a reporter for the New York Daily News, covering the New York City public school system and education-related issues. She has written for the Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Fortune. A contributor to NPR’s This American Life, Einhorn lives in New York City.

Program made possible, in part, by Judy Baston
Co-sponsored by the BJE Jewish Community Library and the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society