Wednesday, April 22
7:30pm
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Little has been written about the Minsk ghetto, the underground, the Communist-led resistance, and the local population’s cooperation with the Jews in German-occupied Byelorussia. Drawing on interviews with Jewish ghetto survivors and partisan fighters, Epstein tells a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where non-Jews turned their backs on the ghettos of Warsaw, Kovno, and Vilna. Epstein will talk about the Minsk ghetto and the ordinary citizens, Jews and Byelorussians, who risked their lives to create an alliance against the Nazis.

Barbara Epstein is professor in the history of consciousness department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the Seventies and Eighties, among other books. Her articles on the anti-war movement, feminism, environmentalism, and political protest have appeared in many academic journals.

For more information: www.bjesf.org/library.htm, or call Rose Katz at 415.567.3327 ext. 70.
All events are free and open to the public.
Free parking at the Pierce Street entrance between Ellis and Eddy.

Co-sponsored by the BJE Jewish Community Library.