Event Details
Florida JCC’s Virtual Book Festival
A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII.
Monday, April 13, 4:00 PM
A Light in the Northern Sea by Tim Brady is the gripping true story of Denmark’s grassroots resistance movement during WWII, detailing how ordinary citizens courageously orchestrated a massive, civilian-led operation to ferry nearly all of their Jewish population to safety in neutral Sweden, saving 95% from Nazi persecution.
Tim Brady is an award-winning history author whose critically acclaimed books include Three Ordinary Girls, Twelve Desperate Miles, A Death in San Pietro, and His Father’s Son. In addition to contributing numerous articles, reviews, essays, and short stories for a wide range of maga­ines, newspapers, and journals, he has written and helped develop a number of television documentaries, including the Peabody Award-winning series, Liberty! The American Revolution for PBS. He lives in St. Paul, Min­neso­ta, and is a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Workshop.
The zoom link for the event will be sent the day of the program.