Nancy Wright Beasley, a Virginia author of three books including two with Holocaust themes, will speak and give a video presentation.

Beasley’s best-known books are the nonfiction Izzy’s Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust and the young-adult historical novel The Little Lion: A Hero in the Holocaust. Both relate the true story of Lithuanian Jews who escaped Kovno Ghetto and survived World War II due to the kindness and bravery of Catholic families who sheltered them. Both books are currently taught in some Virginia schools as part of the Holocaust curriculum. Additionally, Beasley is also the co-author of Saving Sara, a 25-minute play based on The Little Lion that features one actor playing eight parts to tell the story of how 3-year-old Sara Gillman was spirited out of the ghetto
and temporarily raised by Catholics until her parents could come for her.

Please join us for this free, in-person event in the Kill Devil Hills meeting room on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.