Here are some free events at The Coronado Library:
6, Friday: Listen to the beauty of the cello at 1 p.m. as Peter Ko takes the stage. Hear Bach’s
Suite No.1, music from the Renaissance and more. Ko is a cellist based in San Diego. As a performer, his training and projects have taken him across the USA, Mexico, Canada, and Europe.
10, Tuesday: Kitty Morse will discuss her new book “Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France” at 11 a.m. at Coronado Public Library.
Morse felt compelled to write the book after discovering original documents her mother left her in a little black suitcase after her mother’s death in 2017. Unbeknownst to her, the “petite valise” contained a treasure trove of family history including her great-grandfather’s journal chronicling the advance of the Germans in Alsace Lorraine between April and December 1940, and two notebooks written in her great-grandmother’s hand listing about 70 family recipes.
Morse translated the recipes from French to English, then tested and photographed them to include in the book.
12, Thursday: George Eisen will discuss his most recent book, “A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust” at 7 p.m. at Coronado Public Library.
Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on camps like Auschwitz. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.
The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World War II and the Holocaust. In six weeks, more than 2 0,000 Hungarian Jews were forcefully deported to Galicia and executed. The narrative presents an uncharted territory in Holocaust scholarship, incorporating many previously unexplored documents and testimonies.
Information courtesy of the Coronado Public Library.
