Documentary screening starts at 10:30. Bygone Book Club will start at 11:00.
Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin: One Woman's Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany by Mildred Schindler Janzen & Sherye S. Green
The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family’s door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred “Mickchen” Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, they now face the terror of a new enemy—Stalin’s Red Army.
Q & A with author Mildred Schindler Janzen
Local historians lead monthly discussions of books featuring Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska, or regional history. Membership in the book club is monthly, participants can choose which month/book is of interest to them and do not need to commit to the entire program series.
The Bygone Book Club is a partnership between the Grand Island Public Library and the Hall County Historical Society.
