Date/Time
Date(s) - April 21, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Julian Borger discusses his recently published memoir, I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust. This gripping account of grief, courage and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.
This program is held in recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) on April 24. Registration requested, but not required.
Co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Princeton and the Princeton Public Library.
About the author:
Julian Borger is the diplomatic editor for The Guardian. He covered the Bosnian War for the BBC and The Guardian, and returned to the Balkans to report on the Kosovo conflict in 1999. He has also served as The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent and its Washington bureau chief. Borger was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. He was also on the team awarded the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal and the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award in the UK. Photo credit: Carlotta Luke.
Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
