Who is Emmie Arbel?
Emmie Arbel was born in The Hague in 1937. She and her Jewish family were deported by the Nazis in 1942. As a child, she survived the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. When the war was over, she was eight years old. Her parents and grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust.
Emmie and her brothers are adopted by a foster family and live in the Netherlands. But the rescue there also turned out to be a new ordeal for the traumatized child. In 1949, the family emigrated to Israel. In the kibbutz, Emmie felt isolated and didn't belong anywhere.
Until, as a young woman, she takes her life into her own hands.
About the illustrator Barbara Yelin
Barbara Yelin, born in Munich in 1977, studied illustration at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She received the Bavarian Art Prize for Literature in 2015 and the prestigious Max and Moritz Prize for best German-language comic artist in 2016.
On the basis of personal encounters and numerous intensive conversations with Emmie Arbel, Barbara Yelin has written "Emmie Arbel. The Color of Memory", Barbara Yelin has created haunting memoir literature that is also a reflection on memory itself.
This is an event organized by the Literature Office of the City of Salzgitter in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis Stadtgeschichte/Gedenk- und Dokumentationsstätte KZ Drütte.
Raphael Böß will moderate the reading.
Admission costs 10 euros in advance and 12 euros at the box office.
Local advance booking offices in Salzgitter: Buchhandlung im Ärztehaus (Lebenstedt) and Buchhandlung Lesezeichen (Salzgitter-Bad)
For reservations and further information, please call 05341/839-3752 or send an e-mail to literaturbuerostadt.salzgitterde.
