May 18th, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
The recording is at https://youtu.be/u3A1mucJacY.
A class co-sponsored with Sephardic Heritage Internation DC (SHIN-DC) about little-known events during the Holocaust and WWII in Yugoslavia
Moric “Moris” Albahari, who died in 2022 within a week of his 92nd birthday, had a distinguished career in Bosnia and was especially esteemed in his Sephardic community. Jordan Sher’s Dark Shadows Hover is a fictionized memoir of Moris’s real experiences during WWII.
Moris was 10 years old when the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia and inserted a puppet government. Within a few months Morris’s family was sent to a “collection camp” and then to a death camp in the Croatian portion of Yugoslavia. Moris escaped transportation to the death camp. After continuously evading capture, he eventually fled to the Bosnian mountains where he became a courier for a partisan group and successfully carried out dangerous assignments until the end of the war.
Jordan Steven Sher is a former teacher and social worker and a current biographer and novelist. He has written two nonfiction books about immigrants who had to flee from their native lands and two historical novels about survivors of genocide in Bosnia – first, the Holocaust during WWII and second, the genocide of non-Serbs in the 1990’s. He is a member of the Expert International Team Council for the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada (IGC) and a volunteer for both the Education and Public Policy Committees of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
You can contact Jordan at JordanStevenSher1@gmail.com and learn more about Jordan and his publications by visiting www.JordanStevenSher.com.
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