As part of its New Academic Book Series, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to present this Hybrid Book Talk with Historian Lyndsey Stonebridge and Documentary Filmmaker Amanda Rubin who will discuss the work of two remarkable women who understood totalitarianism close up.

In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Berlin-journalist Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these “diaries of the night” in code and concealing them in the spines of books in her extensive library, she sent them as letters to friends abroad, where they waited for her until she escaped in 1939.

Event: Tuesday June 17, from 6:30pm-8pm