What could Christmas mean to people in the worst circumstances? What hope or at least reprieve could it signify? In our final meeting of the year, we listen to voices for truth from two enslaved African Americans and a Jew remembering his time in Auschwitz.
Suggested reading:
Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853), Chapter XV
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Chapter XXII
Primo Levi, "Last Christmas of the War" (1978)– free login to read full article
This event is free, though registration is required.