(Courtesy of JHSNJ) The Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey will present a virtual program featuring Lilly Maier, author of “Arthur and Lilly: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor,” on Sunday, January 21 at 11 a.m..

“Arthur and Lilly: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor” is a true story about the unexpected friendship between an 11-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor.

Hoping to save him from the Holocaust, Arthur’s parents sent him abroad on a Kindertransport from Austria in 1939.This traumatic experience for a 10-year-old boy took him first to France and finally to America. Sixty-five years later, Arthur returns to his parents’ apartment in Vienna where he meets 11-year old Lilly Maier, who is living in the same apartment Arthur lived in as a child. This chance meeting has a significant impact on their lives in ways that are totally unimaginable.

Maier was born in Germany in 1992, the daughter of Austrian journalists. She received an MA in Jewish History from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and a second MA in Magazine Journalism from New York University, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. She also works as a tour guide for the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site and often gives lectures about the Kindertransport.

The book was first published in German. The English version was released in October 2023. It was translated by Dominique Rotermund, an archivist at OSE Archive and History Department in Paris. OSE was the Jewish Child Welfare Society that rescued children in France during WWII.

RSVP by Thursday, January 19 to [email protected] or the JHS office at 201-300-6590.

Admission is free. Donations are always welcome. The Zoom link will be sent after registering. Visit the website at https://jhsnj.wordpress.com/ to donate through PayPal or send checks payable to JHSNNJ, 1710- River Road, Suite 3A, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410