Event Details
The Historical Society Presents: Hidden in Plain Sight
Thursday May 7, 2026 - Human Services Building 61 Center Street
Doors open at 6:30pm
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, readers encounter a powerful and largely untold chapter of Holocaust history, told through one family’s story and a daughter’s enduring quest to understand the past that shaped her life.
Author Julie Brill struggled to comprehend how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population—without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through meticulous research, chance discoveries, and three deeply emotional journeys to Serbia, Brill pieces together her family’s lost history, uncovers long-buried secrets, and restores to her father something the Nazis tried to erase: his own family story.
Julie Brill is the author of Hidden in Plain Sight, which Menachem Kaiser has called “a powerful reminder of why our stories—personal, familial, historical—are so crucial.