Holocaust Education Week – Menachem Kaiser, Guest Speaker, in an interview with Olga Milosevich

Open Remarks: US Consulate General, Lyra Carr

Menachem Kaiser’s debut memoir, Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (2021), about his attempt to reclaim ancestral property, and his surprising entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters, was widely acclaimed. It was a New York Times’s Editor’s Choice; named a best book of the month by Christian Science Monitor; ‘Pick of the Week’ by People Magazine; awarded the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature; and the book was a recipient of the 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards.
Menachem grew up in Toronto and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Menachem was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania where he was a visiting professor in Jewish Studies and American Literature and did ground-breaking research on the Vilna Ghetto.

Olga Milosevich studied music at the University of British Columbia, and then Broadcast Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. In 1983, she moved to Halifax for a job with the CBC. She hosted 2 CBC Radio network shows, “Weekender” and “Music Alive” and worked as host and producer of the regional arts show “Connections” and produced a daily arts report for “Mainstreet”. She retired in July 2012. In November 2012, in recognition of her community service, she received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
U.S Consul General Lyra S. Carr, a career Foreign Service Officer since 2003, Lyra came to Halifax after serving as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Visa Services in Washington DC. A native of southern California, Lyra is a graduate of Stanford University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Medieval Studies and a Master of Arts in German Studies. Lyra is the recipient of several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor awards, as well as a special commendation for outstanding service in the civil division issued by U.S. Department of Justice.

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