WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! talk series featured Fred Gross, author and speaker from Louisville. Gross talked about his book One Step Ahead of Hitler to a Bowling Green, KY audience of over 40 people at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Cambell Lane in the evening of March 5, 2010.
Fred Gross, a graduate of New York University, was a reporter for the Journal-Courier, a daily newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut, and has been a public-relations specialist for nearly thirty years, specializing in education. Gross has been actively involved in the Jewish community in Louisville, Kentucky. He has taught a Holocaust curriculum to Sunday school students, and for years has also shared his story with middle and high school students.
Fred Gross knew much about the history of the Holocaust, but he didn’t know his own, being a young Jewish child during those terrible years. In the late 1980s, he asked his mother to tell him the story of his family’s flight from the German invasion of Belgium and the Nazi policies that would become the Holocaust. One Step Ahead of Hitler is a story of survival told in words and in photographs of a journey beginning in Antwerp and ending with his freedom in America.
We recently were presented with Mr Gross’s book purchased by my sister at the WKU event. My husband was also in France as a child during WWII and so was greatly affected by the book. My husband is involved with Mt Sinai Memorial Parks in Los Angeles and would like to share with Mr Gross some photos of the Forest of the Righteous Gentiles at their Simi Valley, Ca property. Can you pass this email along to him, so that he can contact us. We would like very much to get in touch with him. Thank you for your reply.
Suzanne Levonian
Can you pass this email along to him, so that he can contact us. We would like very much to get in touch with him. Thank you for your reply.
Suzanne Levonian
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Ahead of Hitler is a story of survival told in words and in photographs of a journey beginning in Antwerp and ending with his freedom in America.
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