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“Nancy
Wright Beasley has told a powerful story with dignified
restraint. She has given voice to an underreported side
of the Holocaust – life in hiding.” |
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Michael Berenbaum, Project Director of
the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (1988-1993) |
"Nancy
is a passionate, dedicated writer who has written a
searing story, sure to capture readers with Izzy's
Fire. She
proves herself to be a storyteller who uses firsthand
accounts and research with equal resolve." |
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Adriana Trigiani, author of Big
Stone Gap trilogy |
“We’re talking the stuff of miracles here, and Nancy Wright
Beasley has captured it well.” |
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Tom Graves, President, Baptist Theological Seminary of Richmond;
Board of Directors, Virginia Holocaust Museum |
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The
seven-year journey that led to this book
began when the
author attended a Kristallnacht ceremony
in
Richmond, Virginia, in 1997.
Beginning to understand the significance of recording
survivor history, Nancy Wright Beasley read memoirs, interviewed survivors and
discovered the miraculous journey that finally led Edna Ipson
and 12 other members of five Jewish families from beneath the heel of
the Nazis to “the other side of hell.” She tells of their
journey in Izzy’s Fire. Their story is re-created at the
Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia. |
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