Book Talk: The Memoir of Ilse Seger: Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister with Melissa Kravetz

Location:
The Weinstein JCC
JCC 5400 Club
5403 Monument Ave
Richmond, VA  23226

The Memoir of Ilse Seger: Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister edited by Melissa Kravetz, tells the story of an ordinary woman who resisted authoritarianism in Nazi Germany well before anyone knew what would unfold, and for that reason, Ilse was quite extraordinary and can serve as a role model for all of us.

Melissa will give a presentation about her book at the JCC 5400 Club. She is an Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Longwood University, where she has worked since 2013.  She also teaches K-12 teachers in the Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute at the Virginia Holocaust Museum every summer. Her first book, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2019.

After Melissa’s presentation, she will take questions from the audience and be available to sign her book.

Registration information:

To register for the live event, please email kadams@vaholocaust.org.

To register to attend virtually on Zoom, please click this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TbBqonu_QgWU0b8SW3DxVw

You will immediately get a registration page when you click it. The page includes a drop-down box to select the date of the meeting you are joining. Then you enter your first and last name and your email address and click “Register.” You will then receive a page with a link to join the Webinar. YOU SHOULD KEEP THE PAGE WITH THE LINK TO JOIN BUT DO NOT CLICK THE LINK TO JOIN UNTIL MONDAY at 12:15. Once you have clicked it your name will go into a “virtual waiting room” and the host (Shari Menlowe-Barck) will admit you to the meeting when the meeting begins. There may be a short delay before you are admitted as the host is admitting several participants.