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Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Yocheved Artzi to present Holocaust memoir Stealing German Bread at SGC on Nov. 10

Author Yocheved Artzi MS LMFT, brings readers back to the life-scarring torments of the Holocaust in a heartfelt and touching memoir Stealing German Bread. Artzi, who will visit South Georgia College on Tuesday, Nov. 10 to present her book at 12:15 p.m. in the William S. Smith Library, demonstrates the strength that love provides to endure a most horrific human experience at the hands of the Nazis. This book event is free and open to the public.

German Bread recounts the true story of two sisters jolted out of a normal life in Hungary and thrown straight into Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Beginning with a recurring dream of a mother, a dream that reappears nightly well into years after the war, this touching and heartfelt tale shares how the two sisters supported each other throughout the unspeakable atrocities inside the camp.

Artzi, who was born six years after the Holocaust, brings her personal thoughts and feelings into this book as a child who grew up in Israel among many Holocaust survivors. She reveals how her 80-year-old mother found comfort in retelling her experience during the Nazi regime via transatlantic phone calls 60 years after the war.

Profoundly emotive, Stealing German Bread examines up close the deep-rooted reverberations that the Holocaust created on the survivors, and explores the extraordinary strengths that love can awaken in a person.

Yocheved Artzi, MS LMFT, is an Israeli writer who divides her life between her native country, Israel, and her chosen state, Georgia, USA. She is a mother of three children and works as a licensed marriage and family therapist in her own clinic in Thomasville, Georgia. She is also the author of I Have Two Countries, a collection of poems reflecting the soul of a therapist and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. You may visit Yocheved Artzi’s Web site at www.yochevetnovels.com.
 

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