{"id":8066,"date":"2019-03-06T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:47:39","slug":"upcoming-presentation-ghc-professors-grandfather-helped-save-vermont-authors-grandfather-hundreds-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2019\/03\/06\/upcoming-presentation-ghc-professors-grandfather-helped-save-vermont-authors-grandfather-hundreds-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"UPCOMING PRESENTATION: GHC Professor\u2019s grandfather helped save Vermont author\u2019s grandfather and hundreds more during the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Highlands College will be hosting \u201cPassports for Life: Holocaust Rescue &amp; Survival\u201d on April 4<sup>th<\/sup> from 2PM to 3:30PM in Cartersville.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Students Without Borders. The event will take place in the Student Center in Room 102 A\/B.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>GHC Assistant Professor of Communication Alexandra MacMurdo Reiter and Vermont author K. Heidi Fishman will discuss recent research findings of a clandestine scheme that saved hundreds during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attendees will hear the uplifting story of how Alexandra\u2019s grandfather, Stefan Ryniewicz, helped save Heidi\u2019s grandfather, Heinz Lichtenstern, among others throughout Europe, through the creation of fake foreign passports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Heidi will speak about her award-winning book \u201cTutti\u2019s Promise\u201d and follow the presentation with a book signing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Alexandra\u2019s grandfather: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2018\/06\/14\/ghc-faculty-members-grandfather-honored-polish-embassy-secretly-saving-hundreds-holocaust\/\">https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2018\/06\/14\/ghc-faculty-members-grandfather-honored-polish-embassy-secretly-saving-hundreds-holocaust\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To contact Alexandra: amacmurd@highlands.edu<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Heidi and her grandfather: <a href=\"https:\/\/popjeandme.com\/\">https:\/\/popjeandme.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To contact Heidi: heidifishman@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Highlands College will be hosting \u201cPassports for Life: Holocaust Rescue &amp; Survival\u201d on April 4th from 2PM to 3:30PM in Cartersville. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Students Without Borders. The event will take place in the Student Center in Room 102 A\/B. GHC Assistant Professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}