A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, a Search for the Truth

With Rita Gabis, poet and reporter, who born into a family of East European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics.

This illustrated lecture features the compelling, complicated truth about her grandfather, who had been chief of security police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Sˇvencˇionys, near the killing field of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in 1941, and what he had done.











When: Mon., Mar. 7, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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With Rita Gabis, poet and reporter, who born into a family of East European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics.

This illustrated lecture features the compelling, complicated truth about her grandfather, who had been chief of security police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Sˇvencˇionys, near the killing field of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in 1941, and what he had done.

Buy tickets/get more info now