Museum of Jewish Heritage

EastPark is working with the the Museum of Jewish Heritage to help promote the upcoming Woman of Letters exhibition.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will open an exciting exhibition September 24, 2008 entitled Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française. A Russian-born Jewish writer, Némirovsky quickly became an acclaimed author in her adopted France, where she lived for many years. But her fame and accomplishment, and even her conversion to Catholicism, were not enough to save her; she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where she perished within a short time. Three months later her husband, Michel Epstein, was also arrested and deported to Auschwitz where he was murdered upon arrival.

Among the few mementos Irène left her daughters, Denise and Elisabeth, who survived the war, was a valise that contained a leather notebook they believed to be their mother’s diary. Haunted by painful memories, they avoided opening the notebook until Denise resolved to read it more than fifty years after her mother’s death. She discovered not a diary, but a major literary work: the first two parts of an unfinished five-part novel, Suite Française, now a bestseller in several countries.

If you or your company want to be part of this historic and important exhibit please contact us at 609.430.1400.