Please join the KTA at the Center for Jewish History in New York Cty for the closing event of the Leo Baeck Institute’s exhibition “And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal.” Lore Segal was a Kindertransport survivor and longtime KTA member, who spoke at the very first KTA reunion in 1990.
On April 15th, 2026, WORDTheatre will bring Lore Segal’s final short story collection, Still Talking, to life through performances by James Cromwell (Succession), Toni Kalem (The Sopranos), Mary Beth Peil (Dawson’s Creek), Penny Fuller (All the President’s Men), Cynthia Adler (Happyish) & Laila Robins (The Walking Dead). Cellist Susan Salm will provide musical accompaniment. Curated, produced & directed by WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director, Cedering Fox.
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Lore Segal was born on March 9, 1928, in Vienna, the only child of solidly middle-class parents; her father, Ignatz Groszmann, was chief accountant at a bank, while her mother, Franzi (Stern), was a homemaker. Her life changed dramatically, however, shortly after Hitler’s annexation of Austria, when she was one of a group of 500 Jewish schoolchildren quickly sent to England on the first Kindertransport out of Vienna. For the next thirteen years she lived in several countries and with many different families—earning a B.A. from Bedford College, London, along the way—before finally achieving her independence and settling in New York. In 1961, Lore Groszmann married David Segal, an editor; they had two children, Beatrice and Jacob, before David’s sudden death in 1970. In addition to her writing career, Segal held teaching appointments at Columbia University, Princeton University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University, from which she retired in 1995. She was an active writer into her nineties.