Author Event with Julie Masis

About the Book

Julie Masis interviewed her grandfather, Shlomo Masis, who survived the Holocaust in Ukraine and later immigrated to Massachusetts, where he lived to be 102 years old. The book talks about Jewish life in Bessarabia (Moldova) before and after the war, and about the Holocaust under Romanian occupation. There are also stories about how Ukrainians, in the village of Obodovka, helped the Jews in the ghetto.

The author suggests this event for ages10+

About the Author

Julie Masis is a journalist who has written for the Boston Globe, the Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, the Christian Science Monitor and in other newspapers and magazines. She also publishes a small newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in the Boston area called The Russian Boston Gazette. She was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and moved to the United States when she was 10 years old.