Acton COA Presents: Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust with Author Janet Singer Applefield

The Friends of the Acton Council on Aging proudly announce that the Honoring Excellence program will host Holocaust Survivor, Author and Public Speaker Janet Singer Applefield. Janet wrote a memoir about her experience as a Jewish child in Poland, surviving by taking on the identity of a deceased Catholic girl and hiding in plain sight with the aid of strangers. Her father, weighing just 110 pounds, survived the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto and reunited with his daughter. He transcribed Janet’s recollections of her years of survival, which served as the basis for her memoir.

Refreshments will be served following the program. At 89 years old, Janet continues to write, research, and speak about her experience as a child survivor, teaching students about human rights, the ever-present specter of genocide and the importance of standing up to bigotry and hate.

Open to all age 60+/free.