Author Ghita Schwarz at Great Neck Library

Great Neck Library presents Ghita Schwarz, author of the new novel Displaced Persons, as part of its Fall Literary Series on Monday, December 20 at 7:30 pm. This free event will include remarks by the author, an audience Q and A, as well as a book sale and signing. Displaced Persons tells the tale of four Polish Jews---Pavel, Fela, Sima and Chaim---following through in three distinct periods in their lives: from their first meeting in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, to their early attempts at family normalcy in the US, to their late-in-life project of memorializing their own histories, concluding in the year 2000. In haunting, unsentimental prose that mimics the characters' native cadences of Yiddish and Polish, Ghita Schwarz explores the self-conscious strivings of a community that sees survival as a lifelong project and history as the responsibility of those who have lived it.