Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Ronald Balson’s "The Girl from Berlin," at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library.

A gifted musician and daughter of the Jewish first violinist and concertmaster in the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic in the 1930s, Ada Baurgarten faces a future filled with promise, until the Nazis make her family a prime target and she is forced to use her extraordinary talent to try to save them. Decades later, in 2017, in Pienza, Italy, a property fight over an old stone villa and acres of lush vineyards and olive groves hinges on a secret hidden in the pages of a dusty leather-bound manuscript penned in Ada's handwriting, a manuscript exquisitely created to hide the secrets of her family's struggle for survival.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Linda Burghardt, scholar-in-residence and discussion leader, at lindaburghardt@hmtcli.org or 516.571.8040.