PORT ANGELES —Laureen Nussbaum will read from “Shedding our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine” at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale lecture series at 12:35 p.m. Thursday.
The free reading will be in the Little Theater on Peninsula College’s Port Angeles campus, at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. The event also can be livestreamed via Zoom at http://pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/82308557946; meeting ID 823 0855 7946.
During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents, according to a description of the book on Amazon.
Hans Calmeyer was appointed to adjudicate “doubtful cases.” He used his assignment to save at least 3,700 Jews from deportation and death.
Nussbaum — née Hannelore Klein — tells in her book how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation lists, saving them from death.