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Yom HaShoah 2024

May 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Annual Community
Yom HaShoah Program

featuring
The Lviv Sewer Diaries
Guest Speaker David Lee Preston

Monday, May 6, 2024
7 p.m.
Keneseth Israel Congregation
2531 Taylorsville Rd, Louisville, KY 40205

On Yom HaShoah, award-winning Philadelphia journalist David Lee Preston, a son of Holocaust survivors, will discuss his discovery of his mother’s Polish writings from her 14 months hiding from the Nazis in the sewers of Lviv in 1943-44, and will read passages translated from those sewer notebooks. A finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, Preston returns to Louisville for his third Yom HaShoah visit after speaking at Bellarmine University in 2013 and 2018.

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Date:
May 6
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Organizer

Jewish Federation of Louisville
Email:
federation@jewishlouisville.org
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Venue

Keneseth Israel Congregation
2531 Taylorsville Road
Louisville, KY 40241 United States
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Phone:
5024592780
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