Artful Circle: Author Talk with Isabel Vincent (Overture of Hope)

OVERTURE OF HOPE by Isabel Vincent: The little-known story of the Cook sisters,two British spinsters who saved dozens of Jewish musicians during World War II and the Viennese star composer who helped them do it. Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as author Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of Ida and Louise Cook (photo above) who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich.

Join us as Franklin Hill Perrell talks to Canadian-born award-winning writer Isabel Vincent about this non-fiction book and how she traveled through Europe to do comprehensive research. Isabel Vincent is an award-winning invesigative journalist for The New York Post and the author of nationally best-selling memoir Dinner with Edward. Her book Hitler's Silent Partners, an account of the Swiss bank accounts left dormant after the Nazi era, won the Yad Vashem Award for Holocaust History. She began as a foreign correspondent in South America covering drug cartels, and later the conflicts in Kosovo and war in Angola. For many year, Vincent has reported on New York City madness, mayhem, and corruption for the Post and a host of other publications.

One session - $40

Monday, Dec 12, 2022 at 11am

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