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JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Buzzy Jackson
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Event Series: Authors & Ideas Series
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Buzzy Jackson
January 16 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
JCC MetroWest presents, Buzzy Jackson, “To Die Beautiful”
Based on the true story of Hannie Schaft, known to the Nazis as the Girl with Red Hair. It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft is a shy nineteen-year-old law student living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. The timid, studious university student who once dreamed of becoming a League of Nations lawyer undertakes steadily more risky acts of defiance against the occupiers, from merely delivering supplies to stealing IDs to carrying a loaded gun. She conceals her Jewish friends and begins to fall for a fellow Resistance fighter, working to find any act, no matter how small, to combat the enemy. Exquisitely balanced between cloak-and-dagger secrecy, the grinding realities of waiting out your quarry, and the crushing fear of discovery, To Die Beautiful displays the courage and power of a woman committed to doing what is right in a world gone terribly wrong.
Book group discussion at 12:00 PM
Author presentation at 1:00 PM
Book Group discussion and conversation with the author will be available either in person or on Zoom for participants; author will present via Zoom.
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