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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T193000
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URL:https://kindertransport.org/events/lore-segal-still-talking-new-york-c
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SUMMARY:Lore Segal - Still Talking\, New York City
DESCRIPTION:Please join the KTA at the Center for Jewish History in New Yor
 k Cty for the closing event of the Leo Baeck Institute's exhibition "And T
 hat's True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal." Lore Segal was a Kindert
 ransport survivor and longtime KTA member\, who spoke at the very first KT
 A reunion in 1990.\nOn April 15th\, 2026\, WORDTheatre will bring Lore Seg
 al’s final short story collection\, Still Talking\, to life through perf
 ormances by James Cromwell (Succession)\, Toni Kalem (The Sopranos)\, Mary
  Beth Peil (Dawson’s Creek)\, Penny Fuller (All the President’s Men)\,
  Cynthia Adler (Happyish) &amp\; Laila Robins (The Walking Dead). Cellist 
 Susan Salm will provide musical accompaniment. Curated\, produced &amp\; d
 irected by WORDTheatre’s Founder &amp\; Artistic Director\, Cedering Fox
 .\nTo buy tickets\, click here\nLore Segal was born on March 9\, 1928\, in
  Vienna\, the only child of solidly middle-class parents\; her father\, Ig
 natz Groszmann\, was chief accountant at a bank\, while her mother\, Franz
 i (Stern)\, was a homemaker. Her life changed dramatically\, however\, sho
 rtly after Hitler’s annexation of Austria\, when she was one of a group 
 of 500 Jewish schoolchildren quickly sent to England on the first Kindertr
 ansport out of Vienna. For the next thirteen years she lived in several co
 untries and with many different families—earning a B.A. from Bedford Col
 lege\, London\, along the way—before finally achieving her independence 
 and settling in New York. In 1961\, Lore Groszmann married David Segal\, a
 n editor\; they had two children\, Beatrice and Jacob\, before David’s s
 udden death in 1970. In addition to her writing career\, Segal held teachi
 ng 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 a
 ctive writer into her nineties.
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