Meryl Frank

The Festival

Location: Lahn Social Hall

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

The his­to­ry of Vil­na in World War II has always tak­en a back seat to the far more well-known sto­ries of its sis­ter city, War­saw. Yet the tragedy of the Vil­na ghet­to and the 60,000 Jews who died there deserves to be told in full. Now, Meryl Frank, a tal­ent­ed human rights and polit­i­cal activist, has suc­cess­ful­ly brought light to the beau­ty and courage of the peo­ple who lived in this city of Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture and culture. Ambas­sador Meryl Frank (ret.) is an inter­na­tion­al cham­pi­on of wom­en’s lead­er­ship, human rights, and polit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion. She was select­ed as one of “The Fifty Most Influ­en­tial Jews in the World” by The Jerusalem Post and was appoint­ed as the Unit­ed States Ambas­sador to the Unit­ed NationsCom­mis­sion on the Sta­tus of Women (CSW) by Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma in Feb­ru­ary 2009.

Member: $12 Guest: $15

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