An event of the MFFB in our series "Zionist Stories" in cooperation with the DIG Berlin and Brandenburg.

with the translators Alex Carstiuc and Janina Reichmann

When: Wednesday, September 27 at 7 p.m.

Where: Jewish Community Center, Small Hall, Fasanenstraße 79-80, 10623 Berlin

This is the story of a boy from Chicago's bloody Nineteenth Ward who became a reporter and eventually a novelist, writing 16 books. He was a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War in 1937, visited Jewish GIs in the trenches, and penetrated to the "heart of evil" in Germany in 1945. He was one of the first to be confronted with the horror of the concentration camps at Buchenwald, Dachau and Ohrdruf. He made the first film about the newly founded Israel and documented the escape route of surviving Polish Jews to Palestine from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto to the port of Haifa. He discovered Anne Frank's then-unknown diaries in 1950 and played no small part in the book's worldwide success.