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expands during the summer

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PUBLISHER he People of the Book series of Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy award museums, including the U.S. Holo-
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee virtual author events, sponsored for human rights reporting. caust Memorial Museum in Wash-
The Larry & Mary Greenspon Tby The Jewish Federation of Why did you decide to write ington, D.C., and was able to review
Family Campus for Jewish Life Sarasota-Manatee, was to conclude about this one particular aspect of previously classified documents about
Klingenstein Jewish Center in June with three works with the Ho- the Holocaust? the operation.
580 McIntosh Road locaust as the theme. However, given For many decades, western investi- What lessons or message do you
Sarasota, FL 34232-1959 the popularity of the series, bonus au- gators had very little information about hope readers will take away from your
Phone: 941.371.4546 thors have been lined up to speak in an SS training camp for mass murder book that will be pertinent to our world
Fax: 941.378.2947
Bette Zaret was honored with the E-mail: jewishnews@jfedsrq.org July and August. established in the early months of the today?
Zachor (Never Forget) Award at last year’s Website: www.jfedsrq.org The first June event is on Tuesday, war in the tiny Polish farming village Genocide doesn’t begin with one
Federation Celebration June 15 at 7:00 p.m. with Debbie Cen- of Trawniki. So-called “Trawniki men” person or one moment in time. It takes
Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse Published Monthly ziper and her book, Citizen 865. It will went on to help the SS murder 1.7 mil- an entire organization – thousands of
University and an advanced executive Volume 51, Number 6 be followed on Wednesday, June 16 at lion Jews in fewer than 20 months, the collaborators who either directly par-
degree from Northwestern University’s June/July 2021 2:00 p.m. with author Michael Dobbs span of two Polish summers. I wanted ticipate in mass murder or look the
52 pages
Kellogg School of Management. USPS Permit No. 167 and his book, The Unwanted. The to explore this little-known piece of other way. The men of the Trawniki
For more information about Holo- month will wrap up on Thursday, June Holocaust history and better under- training camp were, in the words of
caust educational programming, con- August 2021 Issue Deadlines: 17 at 7:00 p.m. with Neal Bascomb and stand how SS leaders managed to train, one historian, the “foot soldiers of the
Editorial: June 30, 2021
tact Bette Zaret at bzaret@jfedsrq.org Advertising: July 2, 2021 his book, Faster. arm and empower 5,000 men from Third Reich.” Bringing them to justice,
or 941.371.4546.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The summer bonus series begins across eastern Europe, including Red according to the prosecutors and his-
Inquiries can be sent to Bonnie Souther on Wednesday, July 7 at 7:00 p.m. Army soldiers who had been recruited torians who worked on the cases, was
at bsouther@jfedsrq.org with Howard Blum and his book, from POW camps. every bit as important as tracking more
or call 941.371.4546 x0 Night of the Assassins. It will be fol- More broadly, however, Citizen well-known Nazi killers.
PRESIDENT lowed on Wednesday, July 28 at 7:00 865 is a post-Holocaust story about the These prosecutors and historians
Randon Carvel p.m. with author Esther Amini and her pursuit of justice by men and women believed that the passage of time must
never excuse mass murder and that the
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER United States must never provide ref-
Howard Tevlowitz uge to war criminals.
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF As a journalist and a human being,
COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING I found their work inspiring. I write in
Marty Katz the prologue of the book, “Citizen 865
is a story about darkness but also about
MANAGING EDITOR light, the pursuit of truth by a team of
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expose the men behind the most lethal
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Edward D. Cohen, Pam Ierulli, book, Concealed, Memoir of a Jewish- inside an obscure Nazi-hunting unit perhaps, hopeful that our future won’t
Rhonda Kaplan, Marianne Mandell, Iranian Daughter Caught Between the deep inside the Department of Justice be as grim as our past.
Elliot Ofsowitz, Jeff Sherman, Jill Chado and America. The series will who spent the better part of 30 years Michael Dobbs / The Unwanted
Simons, Linda Stern, Bryna Tevlowitz wrap up on Wednesday, August 18 at hunting for Nazi perpetrators in the Winner of the 2019 Jewish Book Club
2:00 p.m. with Ariana Neumann and United States, including the men of Award for Holocaust Studies, The Un-
MISSION STATEMENT: The Jewish News of
Sarasota-Manatee strives to be the source of her book, When Time Stopped. Trawniki. wanted examines U.S. immigration
news and features of special interest to the Debbie Cenziper / Citizen 865 What was the biggest challenge policy under President Franklin D.
Jewish community of Sarasota-Manatee, to Citizen 865 is about two American his- in writing this book, and how did Roosevelt through the prism of a small
provide a forum for the exchange of ideas torians who make a startling discov- you overcome it? Jewish community at the edge of the
and opinions in the Jewish community, and
to communicate the mission, activities and ery in a basement archive in Prague Citizen 865 is a modern story but it Black Forest.
achievements of the Federation and its Jew- spans more than 70 years. I essentially Michael Dobbs is an author and
ish community partners. retraced the steps of Nazi hunters, as former journalist for The Washington
OPINIONS printed in The Jewish News of Sara- well as survivors who fled the men of Post. He has written six books, includ-
sota-Manatee do not necessarily reflect those Trawniki. I traveled to Poland, Austria ing The Unwanted.
of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Mana- and the Czech Republic to do on-the- Why did you decide to write
tee, its Board of Directors or staff. ground reporting. about this one particular aspect of
SUBMISSIONS to The Jewish News are sub- I also spent hundreds of hours in- the Holocaust?
ject to editing for space and content, and terviewing the historians and prosecu- I became interested in the fate of
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