Reading: Helen Fremont
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
22-3-2000 4:00 PM
End Date
22-3-2000 5:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 22, 2000, as part of the 31st Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing War,” Helen Fremont reads from her memoir After Long Silence. Fremont also discusses her family history, her relationships with Holocaust survivors, her parents' notions of religion and identity during the Holocaust, connecting the prosecutions of homosexual and Jewish people in Nazi Germany to modern oppression in the United States, particularly concerning same-sex marriage, the moral implication of telling other people's stories, and her experience with psychiatric and spiritual counsel.
Reading: Helen Fremont
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 22, 2000, as part of the 31st Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing War,” Helen Fremont reads from her memoir After Long Silence. Fremont also discusses her family history, her relationships with Holocaust survivors, her parents' notions of religion and identity during the Holocaust, connecting the prosecutions of homosexual and Jewish people in Nazi Germany to modern oppression in the United States, particularly concerning same-sex marriage, the moral implication of telling other people's stories, and her experience with psychiatric and spiritual counsel.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2000/day2/2
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.