Irene Levin Berman will be touring Southern California November 15-17. She will present and sign her poignant and captivating book We Are Going to Pick Potatoes, which tells the story about her and her family's experiences during World War 2.
Irene Levin Berman was born and raised in Norway. As a young child in 1942 she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War 2, to avoid annihilation. Nazi Germany had invaded Norway and the deportation of two thousand Norwegian Jews had begun. Seven members of her father’s immediate family were among the 771 victims who were unable to escape and were murdered in Auschwitz.
In 2005 Irene was forced to begin to examine the label of being a Holocaust survivor. Her strong dual identity as a Norwegian and a Jew led her to explore previously unopened doors in her mind. We Are Going to Pick Potatoes is not a narrative of the Holocaust alone, but the remembrances of growing up Jewish in Norway during and after World War 2.
Irene Levin Berman will be on tour on the following dates:
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 – 7:00 p.m.
California Lutheran University, Overton Hall, 60 West Olsen Road,
Thousands Oaks, CA — Free admission
For information contact: Anita Londgren, 805-241-1051
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 – 12:30 p.m.
California State University, Department of Religion, Jacaranda Hall 3520,
18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge CA — Free admission
For information contact: Dr. Jody Myers, 818-677-4724; jewish.studies@csun.edu
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 – 6:30 p.m.
Speaker dinner to support Heritage Pointe Senior Living, a non-profit
home for Seniors, Mesa Verde Country Club, Costa Mesa, CA
For information/reservation contact: Sondra Samuels, 949-720-0898;
smsnb@cox.net
Thursday, November 17, 2011 – 6:30 p.m.
Sons of Norway Norseman 91 Lodge, First Neighborhood Clubhouse,
31830 Village Center Dr., Westlake Village, CA — Free admission
For information contact: Erling Dugan, eduprim@aol.com; 805-813-0565