Reading: Helen Fremont

Presenter Information

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.

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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