Join these two authors as they relate the significance of these Holocaust stories, the impact the uncovering had on their lives, and the surprises they found in their searches.
Location: Online
Sponsored by: Banyen Books & Sound
Type: In Conversation · Non-fiction
Moderator: Ross McKeachie
Readers: Marsha Faubert, Wanda’s War: An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal (Goose Lane Editions) | Meryl Frank, Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hachette Book Group Canada)
About The Moderator
Ross McKeachie is a poet, practitioner, performer, and host. He is the host of Banyen Books’ Branches of Wisdom video & audio podcast, where he engages in conversations with the world's leading thinkers, artists, scientists, and activists. He has interviewed notable contemporary authors such as Wade Davis, Jane Hirshfield, Red Hawk, Michelle Good, Maude Barlow, Michael Ignatieff, and Gabor Maté. Ross has been writing poetry, prose, songs, contemplations and jokes since childhood. He is preparing to release his first book - a collection of writings on life, nature, love, longing, humour, and spiritual reflection. He is a practitioner of the classical life sciences of Yoga & traditional Tantra of South India under the guidance of his teacher and mentor Yogacharini Maitreyi. He has been apprenticing with her since 2015 and is the Community Director & Assistant Teacher Trainer for her school, Arkaya Awareness Centre, and grass roots charity, Arkaya Foundation. He periodically facilitates private training, workshops and talks for groups on request - from First Nations students to corporations and from men's groups to the elderly. He has a varied history as a rugby player, a business student & entrepreneur, a traveller, an actor and comedian. He is also grateful to have learned a great deal about the human condition and the human spirit in private practice offering integrative coaching and healing as well as through his work with individuals who have special needs. He grew up in the beauty of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands and now makes his home on the Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada.
About The Readers
Marsha Faubert is a lawyer and writer of narrative nonfiction. She began her legal career as a litigator, and later worked in various roles in the administrative justice system in Ontario. Her first book, Wanda’s War — An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal, raises themes of memory and silence, freedom, justice, and forgiveness through the wartime and immigration experiences of her husband’s parents. She is currently working on a project that will explore the history and legacy of environmental injustice in her hometown of Sarnia, known to some as Canada’s Chemical Valley.
Meryl Frank is an international champion of women’s leadership, human rights and political participation. She provides expert advice to women on effective communication, campaigning, constituent relations and good governance, as well as strategic planning for effective policymaking. She is also a frequent speaker on gender, health, environment, and refugee issues worldwide. Frank was appointed as the United States Representative, and subsequently, as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) by President Barack Obama in February 2009. She was selected as one of “The Fifty Most Influential Jews in the World” by the Jerusalem Post (2012) for her work on behalf of women around the world. Prior to her appointment as Ambassador, Frank was elected Mayor of Highland Park, New Jersey. She served in that capacity for ten years, from January 2000 to January 2010. Frank is currently the President of Makeda Global Network, an international consulting firm specializing in leadership and media training, messaging and strategic planning.
