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DESCRIPTION:Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lit
 huanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and
  knew one version of his past: prior to immigration he had fought the Russi
 ans\, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives bef
 ore Hitler's army swept in.\n\nFive years ago\, Gabis discovered that from 
 1941 to 1943\, her grandfather had been the chief of security police under 
 the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys\, near the killing field o
 f Poligon\, where 8\,000 Jews were murdered over three days in the fall of 
 1941. Gabis felt compelled to find out the complicated truth of who her gra
 ndfather was and what he had done.\n\nBuilt around interviews in four count
 ries\, A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet is a history and family memoir\, do
 cumenting "the holocaust by bullets."\n\nRita Gabis is the author of two bo
 oks of poetry and co-author of a book on the craft of writing. She teaches 
 creative writing at Hunter College.\n\nThe Schapiro Lecture Series is spons
 ored by a bequest from Mrs. Gloria L. Schapiro.
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LOCATION:Central Library\, Poe Room
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SUMMARY:Schapiro Lecture: Rita Gabis\, A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My
  Grandfather's SS Past\, My Jewish Family\, and a Search for the Truth
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URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/schapiro_lecture_rita_gabis_a_g
 uest_at_the_shooters_banquet_my_grandfathers_ss_past_my_jewish_family_and_a
 _search_for_the_truth
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