Through a complicated system of spy channels, an American librarian in Lisbon works out a formula to make a clandestine connection with a French Resistance fighter in Lyon to help save Jewish lives from Nazi aggression. In those dark days of Europe in 1942, one small light shines on a smuggled printing press and the men and women who risk their lives to operate it, illuminating the power of words to achieve what guns and bombs cannot. 

Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence, will be the discussion leader. For more information, please contact her at lindaburghardt@hmtcli.org, or 516-471-8040.