Join us for an extra meaningful book talk
in honor of Jewish Heritage Month
with Holocaust Survivor
Janet Singer Applefield

THURSDAY, MAY 8th | 6:30 PM
at Temple Beth-El
in the Social Hall
118 S. Grand Avenue | Poughkeepsie

Zoom option will also be available.
Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Arriving in America in 1947, 12 year-old Gustawa Singer carried the heaviness of the three-year wartime separation from her father. Desperate to piece together their stolen years, he sat her down and meticulously transcribed her memories in a seven-page handwritten record. They never spoke about their collective torture again. Hidden in a basement for 35 years, this forgotten testimony became the blueprint for Singer Applefield's journey of self-discovery.

Becoming Janet takes the reader on an authentic, emotional journey to Nazi occupied Poland, vividly depicting the broken, lonely, and tortured years of little Gustawa hiding in plain sight. She would quickly learn that resilience and secrecy were the difference between life and death.
 

Community collaboration with:
Beacon Hebrew Alliance, Congregation Beth David, Congregation Schomre Israel, Congregation Shir Chadash, Jewish Federation of Dutchess & Orange Counties, PJ Library Mid-Hudson, Temple Beth-El, and Vassar Temple.