NOVEMBER 2010   FAIRFAX, VA
Sons of Norway Washington Lodge has again invited author Carla Danziger to sign copies of her novel, HIDDEN FALLS at their annual Holiday Bazaar. See details below.

Sons of Norway Holiday Bazaar
November 12 and 13, 2010
Arlington-Fairfax BPO Elks Club
8421 Arlington Boulevard
Fairfax, VA 22031-4689
(703) 560-2188
http://son-dc.org/

APRIL  2010  New York City  

On April 14, 2010 I traveled to New York City to celebrate the publication of Irene Levin Berman’s must-read book  “We Are Going to Pick Potatoes”: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story and attend a program sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage about Norway and the Holocaust, which included interviews with Irene and with Bjarte Bruland, a Norwegian historian.  
Click Here to visit the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage.

“We are going to pick potatoes” refers to what Irene’s mother and nanny told four-year-old Irene Levin and her brother Leif Arild as they were escaping from Nazi-occupied Oslo, Norway, to Sweden in 1942.   That vivid memory serves as the catalyst for the memoir Berman began 63 years later (2005); yet she goes far beyond her own childhood recollections. She takes the reader along as she researches through archives and personal interviews the fate of the aunts, uncles and cousins who “disappeared.”   In exploring the past, she also discovers a great deal about herself, her brother, and her parents.  She reflects on the impact of the Holocaust on her life growing up in Norway, and, after her marriage to an American, in the United States.  Determined to tell her story in both Norwegian and English, Irene reached out to a number of people on both sides of the ocean; I was honored to be among them.  I was privileged to work with Irene as her editor as she translated the 2008 Norwegian edition of her book ("Vi skal plukke poteter"-- Flukten fra Holocaust) into English.  In winter and spring 2009, via email and often by phone, we worked very closely together.  I raised questions that readers unfamiliar with Norway might ask, thus necessitating some changes from the version written for Norwegians, and at times suggested rephrasing more in keeping with American colloquialisms.  I was moved by Irene’s words.  I deeply admire Irene for writing this book and enduring the emotional pains of her visit into the past in order that her children and grandchildren—as well as anyone interested in the life of Jews in Norway under the Nazi occupation—could learn from this poignant untold story.   Few will read about Irene’s relatives—especially the Steinfeld family in Aalesund—with dry eyes.  This is an extraordinary history and introspective that stays with the reader long after the last page is read.  I am grateful to Irene Levin Berman for taking me along on her journey and for all I learned from it.  I regret that due my personal commitments and the publisher’s deadline, I was unable to participate in the final copyediting/proofreading stage. 

MARCH 2010   WASHINGTON, DC

JANUARY 2010   FAIRFAX, VA

DECEMBER 2009
For the 6th year—since 2004—Sons of Norway Washington, DC, Lodge #428, featured HIDDEN FALLS and a booksigning by Carla as part of their Norwegian Christmas Bazaar.

Hidden Falls made its California debut at Norway Day in San Francisco, May 2 and 3, 2009, sharing a table with artworks by artist Claire Anne Thoen.
(See www.ClaireAnneThoen.com)
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Dear Ms. Danziger,

Paintings posted with permission of Ms. Ahladas