NEHGS 2015 Winter Dinner, with guest speaker Allan Chernoff
Date and time
Location
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Treat Rotunda 99-101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116-3007Refund Policy
Description
Join us for a special evening featuring as our pre-dinner speaker one of the nation’s most experienced and honored business broadcast journalists, former CNN and CNBC Senior Correspondent Allan Chernoff. Mr. Chernoff will speak on his recently published book The Tailors of Tomaszow: A Memoir of Polish Jews, which he co-wrote with his mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust and a native of the central Polish town of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, many of whose 14,000 Jewish residents made their living as tailors and seamstresses before World War II. Only 250 of them survived the Holocaust, in part due to their skill with a needle and thread. Told through the eyes of a young girl and her teenage neighbors and relatives, and filled with many other first-hand accounts, the book is a fascinating, well-researched, and accessible "communal memoir" of pre-war Jewish life.
Our cocktail reception and dinner menu will be Kosher. Should you have any other special dietary requirements, or any questions about the event, please contact Susan Harrington at susan.harrington@nehgs.org or (617) 226-1220.
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Founded in 1845, the New England Historic Genealogical Society (AmericanAncestors.org) is the country’s leading resource for family history research. We help genealogists of all skill levels improve their knowledge and understanding of their family and its place in history. Although our name says New England, we provide expertise and research in nearly all aspects of family history, from 17th-century colonial New England through twentieth-century immigration research to DNA interpretation and beyond.