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Check It Out
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2015/05 - May
With the high season quickly approaching, Hudson Librarian Jennifer Crowley would like to remind residents that visitor cards are available at all library branches.
If you have children, grandchildren, or other visitors staying in your home while you’re away they’ll need to get their own temporary library card. This allows them to check out books, magazines, games, DVDs, and puzzles for only $15. This card is good for six months.
In keeping with the community-minded philosophy of the Hudson Library, they will be offering a unique experience, Saturday, May 23, at 10:00 A.M.
Write that date down. You’ll want to make plans to attend the presentation and book signing by Gene Klein, who spent a year in Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz, at the age of 16. In her book, “We Got the Water,” author Jill Gabrielle Klein follows her father, his sisters and their mother through Auschwitz and into slave labor camps in Poland and Germany, providing a narrative — both harrowing and inspirational — of resilience in the face of terror.
It is the story of the Klein family: Herman and Bertha, and their three children, Lilly, Oli, and 16-year-old Gabi. In the spring and summer of 1944, along with more than 400,000 other Hungarian Jews, they were forced from their homes, rounded up, and sent to Auschwitz. The Kleins were aboard one of the very first trains of this mass deportation.
This presentation is a piece of history not to be missed.
As always, Community Coffee is held the last Friday of the month. Community Coffee is a collaborative effort between the Hudson Library, the Town of Highlands and various community organizations. Each month, the library provides the space and brews the (donated) Community Coffee, a community group provides or funds refreshments, and Mayor Patrick Taylor facilitates the discussion. For more information, call the library at (828) 526-3031.
Library hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. and Saturdays, 10 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Visit them online at FontanaLib.org/Highlands.
