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The Great Fire: On the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide

Join The Anne Frank Center USA for a very special evening with Lou Ureneck, author of The Great Fire: One American’s Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century’s First Genocide. Ureneck’s new book tells the harrowing story of a Methodist minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians. By turns harrowing and inspiring, The Great Fire uses eyewitness accounts, documents and survivor narratives to bring this episode—extraordinary for its brutality as well as its heroism—to life. This remarkable new book explores the bravery, morality and politics of the time, and is published to coincide with the genocide’s centennial.

Lou Ureneck, a former Nieman fellow and editor-in-residence at Harvard University, is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He was deputy managing editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and editor of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald. Ureneck’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe and Field & Stream. A former Fulbright fellow, Ureneck is the author of Backcast, which won the National Outdoor Book Award for literary merit, and Cabin—Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine.

This event is part of The Anne Frank Center USA’s Writing and Resistance literary series, which examines the relationship between writing, struggle and self-discovery.











When: Tue., May. 26, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect
44 Park Pl.
212-431-7993
Price: $8 adults, $5 students and seniors
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Join The Anne Frank Center USA for a very special evening with Lou Ureneck, author of The Great Fire: One American’s Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century’s First Genocide. Ureneck’s new book tells the harrowing story of a Methodist minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians. By turns harrowing and inspiring, The Great Fire uses eyewitness accounts, documents and survivor narratives to bring this episode—extraordinary for its brutality as well as its heroism—to life. This remarkable new book explores the bravery, morality and politics of the time, and is published to coincide with the genocide’s centennial.

Lou Ureneck, a former Nieman fellow and editor-in-residence at Harvard University, is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He was deputy managing editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and editor of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald. Ureneck’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe and Field & Stream. A former Fulbright fellow, Ureneck is the author of Backcast, which won the National Outdoor Book Award for literary merit, and Cabin—Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine.

This event is part of The Anne Frank Center USA’s Writing and Resistance literary series, which examines the relationship between writing, struggle and self-discovery.

Buy tickets/get more info now