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Wednesday, April 23, 2:00 pm Gerda Weissmann Klein was a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All But My Life, was adapted for the 1995 short film, One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry. Lauren (more…)

Mikhail “Misha” Souponitski has had an interesting and eventful life. He will share the story of how he went from being born in a Russian gulag during WWII to becoming a circus performer in Circus of the Soviet Union. Later, he defected from the USSR during a tour with the circus in Sweden, became a (more…)

In this six-week long interactive course Dr. Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker’s relates her firsthand experiences as a young girl growing up during the Nazi regime, end of World War II, and post-war Germany. She will discuss bombed-out cities, hunger, homelessness, orphans, and longing for soldiers to return home; boy soldiers serving at the Eastern and Western (more…)

While attending the 1950 World Federalist Conference at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL, George and Clifton Lewis of Tallahassee asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for them, saying they “have a lot of children and not much money.” Wright agreed and the couple located a beautiful five-acre parcel on the outskirts of (more…)