Wednesday, February 11 at 6 p.m.
Throughout the 1990s, Freeport-based attorney and photographer Jack Montgomery created portraits of 20 Holocaust survivors who settled in Maine.
At the outset of the pandemic, he set out to collect their first person accounts as they had told them in interviews, books they had written and speeches they had given, letters and poems. Published in August, 2025, ‘From the Holocaust to Maine: Testimonies of the Survivors‘ highlights their testimonies.
Most were children during the dark years of fascism in Europe. Some were forced into ghettos and then on to the death factories of Auschwitz and other camps. Some fled to the woods where they survived with partisan bands resisting the Germans and others who hunted for Jews. All of them survived through a combination of great fortitude and good luck.
Jack Montgomery will be at the library to talk about his 30-year journey in telling the stories of these remarkable Mainers. He fervently hopes his book will educate readers about what he calls “closely related viruses embedded in the human body politic”—antisemitism, racial hatred, and authoritarianism.
Thursday, February 5 at 6 p.m.
Join us for pizza and the 2025 Smurfs movie!
Please register so we don’t run out of pizza!
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Tuesday, February 17 at 1 p.m.
Join Miss Sarah as we celebrate Lunar New Year and ring in the Year of the Horse!
We’ll have games, crafts, music, and more!