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URL:https://kindertransport.org/events/i-seek-a-kind-person-advertising-an
 d-the-kindertransport-rescue-operation/
SUMMARY:“I Seek a Kind Person” — Advertising and the Kindertransport 
 Rescue Operation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fascinating discussion! Julian Borger‘s family 
 memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as o
 ne of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how
  the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued th
 rough the placement of advertisements in British newspapers.\n\nJulian Bo
 rger is The Guardian‘s senior international correspondent based in Lond
 on. He served as The Guardian‘s Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem 
 and in Washington as bureau chief and then global affairs editor.  He wa
 s part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for their co
 verage of the Snowden files. He also won the 2016 One World Media press aw
 ard for Syria’s Truth Smugglers\, about the war crimes of the Assad reg
 ime. He has written two books: The Butcher’s Trail (2016) about the m
 anhunt for Balkan war crimes\, and I Seek A Kind Person (2024) about Jew
 ish children saved from the Nazis with the help of newspaper ads.\n\nEric 
 Schlosser is an investigative journalist and best-selling author who will 
 be in dialogue with Julian Borger. He is the author of Fast Food Nation\,
  Reefer Madness\, and\, most recently\, Command and Control\, which was
  a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for Rolling Stone\, 
 The Atlantic\, and The New Yorker\, among others\, and has received a
  number of journalism honors\, including a National Magazine Award. Schlos
 ser previously worked as a playwright for an independent film company. Two
  of his plays\, Americans (2003) and We the People (2007)\, have been 
 produced in renowned London theaters.\n\nMelissa Hacker\, moderator\, is t
 he Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. She is a filmma
 ker whose documentary My Knees Were Jumping\; Remembering the Kindertran
 sports was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination and shown worldwi
 de. A sought-after speaker\, she has consulted on the exhibits Rescuing 
 Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York 
 and the Illinois Holocaust Museum\, and Without a Home: Kindertransports 
 from Vienna at the Vienna Jewish Museum. She is the editor of two Academy
  Award nominated documentary films and serves on the Governing Board of th
 e World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants.\n\nPrese
 nted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation and co-sponsored by the Kindertranspor
 t Association\n\nRegister for this free event here
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CATEGORIES:KTA Book Talks,Public event,Speaker
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