NEWBURYPORT — Elisa Boxer, an award-winning author of more than a dozen nonfiction children’s books, will visit “The Morning Show” on Thursday.
Host Mary Jacobsen will interview Boxer about her new book, “Under the Rubble: the Hidden Letters of the Warsaw Ghetto.”
Boxer will read and discuss “Under the Rubble” on Sunday, April 12, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Congregation Ahavas Achim, 53½ Washington St., Newburyport.
Commemorating Yom Hashoah, a day dedicated to remembering and honoring victims of the Holocaust, the event is titled “Keeping Their Stories Alive: an Afternoon of Reading, Reflecting, and Remembering.”
Boxer will explain the history of the Warsaw Ghetto and discuss how and why a group of Jews imprisoned in the ghetto decided they would secretly write down their experiences, even though it was dangerous to do so.
Determined that the crimes committed against them by the Nazis would not disappear, they buried the archives in metal boxes and milk cans in three sites around the city. Two of the sites were discovered under the postwar rubble of Warsaw. One has yet to be found.
Boxer will discuss what drew her to write about this chapter of Holocaust history, and how she narrates the story in a way appropriate for children.
For more information about Boxer, visit www.elisaboxer.com.
For information about Congregation Ahavas Achim, visit www.caa-newburyport.org.
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