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SUMMARY:Shelly Sanders and Sasha Vasilyuk: Writing About Jews in the Red Army in World War II
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nTo register for this free in-person program, click here. The Library is located at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, with free garage parking ( https://goo.gl/maps/h11asWbpMhssBkMq6 ) at 1227 Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy.  \nShelly Sanders’s The Night Sparrow brings to light the untold stories of female snipers and interpreters in the Soviet Army during World War II. Only one out of five of the nearly 2,500 women snipers lived to see the end of the war.\nThe novel focuses on the world of Elena Bruskina, an ambitious Jewish university student in Belarus, whose world collapses with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. After escaping the Minsk ghetto, she enrolls in the Red Army’s newly created Central Women’s Sniper Training School, where she joins a community of brave young women willing to give their lives to defend their country. \nSanders will be in conversation with Sasha Vasilyuk, whose novel Your Presence Is Mandatory received the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and a California Book Award. The book follows a Ukrainian Jewish soldier whose capture during World War II leads to haunting secrets and deceptions.\nShelly Sanders is the bestselling author of the novel Daughters of the Occupation and the acclaimed young adult historical novels The Rachel Trilogy. She began her writing career as a freelance journalist working for major publications, including the Toronto Star, National Post, Maclean’s, Canadian Living, Reader’s Digest, and Today’s Parent. She lives in Ontario, Canada.\nSasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of the novel Your Presence Is Mandatory. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Vasilyuk grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to the United States at the age of thirteen.\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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