Hidden Heroes - Pamela Broun Cohen (Meet the Author)
Sun, Jun 26
|Krug Community Center
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2022, 5:00 PM CDT
Krug Community Center, 1400 S Wolf Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090, USA
About the Event
Spanning nearly three decades, Hidden Heroes gives an insider's view of the modern-day exodus of Soviet Jews from the Soviet Union, a period of Jewish history that has rarely been told and is in danger of being forgotten. This deeply personal narrative explores the grassroots Soviet Jewish emigration movement through the eyes of one of its indefatigable leaders, focusing on the actions of heroic refuseniks in the Soviet Union as well as courageous individuals in the West - described by Natan Sharansky as the "army of students and housewives" who waged the battle to free Soviet Jews. From Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania to the distant republics of Central Asia, refuseniks come to life, discovering their identity, protesting on the streets, defending themselves in courtrooms, defying jailers in their prison cells, and struggling to survive in Siberian labor camps. This engrossing memoir tells the story of the resistance and moral courage of men and women inside the Soviet Union and of those in the West who relentlessly crusaded on their behalf.
About the author:
Pamela Cohen is recognized as one of the most important women to Soviet Jewry and a hero to Natan Sharansky and many other refuseniks.
Join StandWithUs TV LIVE and Pamela Cohen as we learn about her (OMIT heart-wrenching story of the ) relentless, decades-long battle for Soviet Jewry, her many years of leadership in the Free Soviet Jewry movement, and her new book, Hidden Heroes:
One Woman’s Story of Resistance and Rescue in the Soviet Union. OPEN Q&A
!!!!FREE ADMISSION!!!! DONT`T MISS THIS OUT Tel: 224-423-5784