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LOCAL AUTHOR NANCY WRIGHT BEASLEY TO OPEN BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES
RICHMOND, Va (September 6, 2006) - J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College will hold its first session of the “2006-2007 Around The World Through Books” discussion series on Thursday, September 28. The session will feature local author and Virginia Commonwealth University professor Nancy Wright Beasley and her book Izzy’s Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust. The program will start at 7 p.m. in the North Run Corporate Center auditorium located at 1630 East Parham Road.
Beasely was inspired to write Izzy’s Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust when she heard Buchenwald survivor Alan Zimm reciting names of family members who died in the Holocaust. This intrigued Beasly to further understand the significance of recording survivor history. Through her research, she discovered the miraculous journey that finally led Edna Ipson and her family from the heel of the Nazis to “the other side of hell.”
The program is a free community event sponsored by JSRCC’s Cultural Enrichment Committee for the purpose of encouraging cultural diversity throughout the Reynolds campuses and communities. For more information about this event and the forum series please contact Randy Pittman at 804-523 or visit www.reynolds.edu.
