An Evening with Heather Macadam, Author of Star Crossed: A True Romeo & Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris (NWL)

Join the West Hartford Public Library and Voices of Hope, Connecticut’s Holocaust and genocide educational non-profit, for an evening with Heather Dune Macadam, author of Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s Paris. Star Crossed is the epic true story of the forbidden love between Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and the young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. The two meet at the famed Café de Flore, whose patrons included Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso and pursue a relationship against their parents’ wishes and against the laws of the Third Reich. Gain insight into the Holocaust and the lives of French people living under Hitler’s cruel regime through Annette’s and Jean’s story as shared through Macadam’s meticulous research and slide presentation.

Heather Dune Macadam is the author of the international bestseller and Pen Award Finalist 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz, translated into 18 languages, and the producer/director of its companion documentary film, 999. Her first book was the bestselling memoir Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. She is a New York State Council of the Arts Fellow and recipient of a Society of Authors Research Grant.