‘Shattered Stars’: Holocaust Remembrance Day Event In Montclair

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of the Montclair Public Library. Find out how to post announcements or events to your local Patch site.

On Sunday, April 27 from 5 to 7 p.m., the Adult School Department of the Montclair Public Library will be commemorating Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a presentation by Irene Stern Frielich, author of the award-winning "Shattered Stars, Healing Hearts: Unraveling My Father's Holocaust Survival Story."

Frielich’s multimedia presentation, “Shattered Stars: The Power of Courage, Compassion, and Kindness,” includes videotaped interviews with her late father, Walter Stern, a "hidden Jew" like Anne Frank. Eighty years later, Frielich traced her father's escape route, searching for the descendants of his protectors...with astonishing results. Afterwards, Montclair's own Deb Levy, author of "Bury the Hot: A True Story," about a Holocaust survivor she grew up with in Miami, will talk to Frielich and moderate the Q&A.

Frielich and Levy will sell and sign copies of their books after the discussion.

Reservations are required. Register at adultschool.org.

“Unfortunately presentations like this one are increasingly relevant as antisemitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise,” says Montclair Public Library Director Radwa Ali. “This program leads perfectly into the library’s first commemoration of National Jewish American Heritage Month in May. Check out our other offerings at tinyurl.com/MontclairNJAHM.”

Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The idea is to document Jewish resistance to the Nazis in World War II, how they retained their human dignity in the most unbearable conditions, and how they fought the Nazis and joined underground partisans who battled the Third Reich in occupied countries.

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