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Zoom Book Talk with Dana & Yvona Fast - April 2nd

3/27/2023

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      IN RECOGNITION OF THE HEROES OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING, 1943 

Join us in welcoming Sophie Miron's aunt, Dana Fast, and her daughter, Yvona in a book talk about her memoir, Good in the Midst of Evil, on the subject of her survival during the Holocaust. 

Dana Fast was born as Lilka Miron in Warsaw in 1931 into an assimilated, educated family and is a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-42). After a daring operation she was smuggled out. She lived in hiding during the rest of the War.

Afterwards she graduated in Chemistry and left Poland for Israel and then immigrated with her family to the US in 1962. She worked in medical research for many years and is now retired and living in upstate New York.

She will join us on Zoom with her daughter on April 2nd at 5:30 pm.
JOIN THE ZOOM CALL HERE. This is a free event.

This event is hosted by The Aquarian Minyan Congregation, Berkeley, CA.

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Meet the authors of Good in the Midst of Evil - July

6/16/2022

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Yvona Fast  and Dana Fast , authors of Good in the Midst of Evil
​After a daring escape from the Warsaw ghetto, 11-year old Lilka is torn away from her family. With a name change and new identity papers, her life becomes a masquerade. She must learn to act the role of a Catholic girl living in the Polish country, a role she's not familiar with or prepared for. Will she succeed?
Dana became a strong, independent woman, with a degree in chemistry and a career in medical research. She retired to gardening, hiking and volunteering in her community of Saranac Lake, where she has lived almost a half-century. She was recognized as a Woman of Distinction by Assemblyman Billy Jones in 2022. She is an Adirondack 46er, has hiked across England, grew all her own vegetables and flowers for many years. She volunteered at the Saranac Lake Free Library, as a Master Gardener Volunteer, at the Paul Smith’s Visitor’s Interpretive Center both with school kids and at the butterfly house, at the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge Habitat Awareness Day, at the Saranac Lake Village Improvement Society, and other venues.
New Book – Good in the Midst of Evil
New Book – Good in the Midst of Evil
​Dana’s message for many years has been that it has been unfair to deny the heroism of many Poles who risked their own lives as well as the lives of their families. In her memoirs she describes the individuals who helped her find Good in the Midst of Evil.
Available through: Your local bookstore, Barnes & Noble, ​​Amazon, or anywhere books are sold! ​
Questions? Contact Yvona at ​writeyvona@gmail.com.

Summer Events – Meet the authors of Good in the Midst of Evil
July 7, 2022
​Saratoga Springs Jewish heritage festival event, ​Saratoga Springs, NY

The Saratoga Jewish Cultural Festival, presents Dana Fast in her story, Good in the Midst of Evil. This is Dana’s saga of her experiences in World War II Warsaw, Poland, as chronicled by her daughter, Yvona. July 7 at 7 PM on Zoom.
Dana, now 91, became a strong independent woman, and lives in the Saranac Lake County in the NY Adirondacks, where she has lived for almost a half century.
Good in the Midst of Evil is available anywhere books are sold.
Good in the Midst of Evil, with Dana and Yvona Fast, will be on Zoom, Thursday, July 7, at 7 PM. Registration is required at sjca.sjcf@gmail.com

July 23, 2022 at 1 PM
Book signing / reading at The Bookstore Plus, Lake Placid NY

The Bookstore Plus is pleased to host authors, Dana and Yvona Fast, for a book signing event on Saturday, July 23, 2022, from 1-3 PM to autograph copies of their book "Good in the Midst of Evil”. 
 About The Book| Good in the Midst of Evil is Dana Fast’s memoir that follows her life story from when she was a little girl after the Germans invaded Poland, her time in the Warsaw Ghetto, her escape from the ghetto, her life in hiding, and into her return to Poland as an adult.

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    EVENTS

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    April 2023
    Aquarian Minyan
    ArtWalks
    ArtWorks
    Author Night
    Book Release
    Books Available
    Book Signing
    Book Talk
    Dana Fast
    Discussion
    Free Event
    Good In The Midst Of Evil
    Holocaust Memoir
    Holocaust Survivor
    July 2023
    June 2023
    Lake Placid
    Long Lake
    Loons
    Loon Summer
    March 2023
    May 2023
    Paul Smiths
    Plattsburgh
    Poetry
    Poetry Reading
    Saranac Lake
    School Visit
    September 2023
    Summer 2023
    Via Zoom
    Warsaw Ghetto

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