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Do you love reading book club selections but hate the pressure of attending a book club meeting? This club is for you!
We will select a monthly book club selection on the first of each month; you check it out from the library (monthly selections will be available at the circulation desk and online, if available.) Join our Facebook group if you decide if there is anything you’d like to discuss, all without leaving the comfort of your internet connection!
The December No Club Book Club selection is The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Johnathan Freedland
Author Jonathan Freedland presents the remarkable, true story of Rudolph Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg). A precocious child, Walter grows up with his mother, and grandparents in Slovakia.
As Nazi Germany invades Europe, Vrba is banned from continuing his education for being Jewish. A teenager, Vrba and his friends continue learning in secret. Over the next few years, Jewish families are subjected to curfews, barred from work, faced with confiscation of businesses and property, and subject to threats, beatings and deportations to concentration camps.
After a failed attempt at escaping deportation, at 18, Vrba is forcibly deported from Slovakia. He is sent to Auschwitz. Vrba survives two years in the concentration camp before making an escape. Follow his amazing story of resilience and courage, as Vrba seeks to save lives from the genocide, and bears witness to the horrors and atrocities of the Nazi regime.
For more information, contact Anna Paquet at 978-671-0948 ext. 4113 or by emailing her at apaquet@billericalibrary.org.