The four speakers for 2022 are:
Kristin Harmel, author of the “The Book of Lost Names” and the upcoming “The Forest of Vanishing Stars”;
Susan Wiggs, whose latest, “The Lost and Found Bookshop,” is a love letter to independent bookstores;
Brad Taylor, a retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel and author of “American Traitor” and “End of Days”;
Scott Turow, the master of legal thrillers from “Presumed Innocent” to “The Last Trial.”
“We are pleased to be able to offer such highly recognized, accomplished and entertaining authors,” said Trish Benisch, chairperson of the Nick Linn Series.
“The pandemic changed our game plan for 2021, but our shift to online-only lectures was very successful and allowed us to continue our important work on behalf of the Collier library system,” Benisch said. “Now, we’re looking forward to resuming in-person events, as well as continuing to offer the lectures online for subscribers who want to watch from home
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising monument / Bosyantek, Creative Commons
For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. In November 1940, this ghetto was sealed off by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards. Anyone caught leaving was shot on sight. Among all the ghettos established in cities throughout Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, the Warsaw ghetto was the largest. The Nazis controlled the amount of food that was brought into the ghetto. Disease and starvation killed thousands each month.