March 29, 2022
Contact Rick Kyte at 608-796-3704 or rlkyte@viterbo.edu or Jill Miller at 608-796-3615 or jmmiller@viterbo.edu
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR PETER FEIGL’S MARCH 31 APPEARANCE AT VITERBO UNIVERSITY CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS, AUTHOR ALEXANDRA ZAPRUDER TO SPEAK INSTEAD
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Holocaust survivor Peter Feigl is ill and will be unable to appear at Viterbo University Thursday, March 31. Filling in will be author Alexandra Zapruder, who will speak at 7 p.m. in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Main Theatre. The event will also be streamed on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/viterboethics.
Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Smith College, she served on the curatorial team for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors, Remember the Children, Daniel’s Story. She earned an EdM in Education at Harvard University in 1995.
In 2002, Zapruder completed her first book, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book, which aired on MTV in May 2005, and was nominated for two Emmy awards. In 2016, she published her second book, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. She has been published in Parade, LitHub, Smithsonian, and The New York Times.
Zapruder serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights, a nonprofit that develops partnerships with teachers in post-conflict countries to provide training in best practices on human rights, genocide prevention, and Holocaust education.
This presentation is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary, but seating is limited. Wearing a mask is recommended. This event is being held in conjunction with Viterbo’s annual Teaching the Holocaust Workshop for educators.
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