I’m grateful for being able to attend so many talks and events on zoom. Tonight it was a talk from American writer and lawyer Ingrid Alpern. She was talking about and answering questions on her book
This talk was programmed in the week when Holocaust Memorial Day falls, on 27th January, and the writer described the terrifying journey that her mother and grandmother and three other family members made out of Holland, via Belgium, then France them to Surinam and finally to America. Out of an initial group of 20 refugees who left Holland together only this small family survived due to false papers supplied by a man in the Dutch Embassy they approached when they entered France.
An hour on zoom, in front of the fire, with a coffee next to me and Mabel on my lap is infinitely preferable to making a car journey to a draughty village hall to listen to a speaker. Did we use to do that? Not any more!
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We went to a zoom HMD event yesterday, which was impressive, and today I am starting a book called The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, for one of my book clubs, I wonder if you know it, again based on real life experience by an author who died while returning to UK from internment in Australia. So important that we should listen and learn at this time.
I do so agree with you about Zoom being more comfortable on a dark winter night, particularly when thinking of dark times.
Anyhow, lovely to see your birthday celebrations! Much love xx