Lane Dworkin Rochester Jewish Book Festival

Lane Dworkin Authors + Innovators Festival

Rochester’s Own: Helena Temkin Greener presents My Involuntary Journeys

Helena Temkin Greener Presents:

“My Involuntary Journeys: A Memoir”, by Hanna Temkin, is a story of a life journey through some of the most difficult episodes of the 20th Century. It depicts the author’s escape from Poland to the Soviet Union as the Nazis invaded in 1939, her life in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust and WWII, her return to Poland, and then having to flee again in 1968 due to an antisemitic campaign instigated and fueled by the Polish government.         

Hanna’s daughter, Helena, will read passages from the book, and there will be time for discussion and a Q&A.

Helena was born in Warsaw, Poland and left the country as a teenager in 1968, together with her family, fleeing the antisemitic campaign unleashed by the Polish government after the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war of 1967.

Helena has been a Rochester, NY resident since 1977.  She is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.                                     

*Bring your own kosher-style lunch or stop by Fox’s at the JCC before the talk.

Tickets: JCC Member: $8, Non-member: $10

Location: JCC Auds