The pastoral jungle and Caribbean Sea of Puerto Viejo feel like the farthest place on earth from the bleeding Europe of the 1940s. But this coming Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, the living room of BINA House will become a rare bridge between times and continents. Claudio Ambroso will join us to reveal an extraordinary historical puzzle of his family—one family saved through two completely different paths, documented in two separate historical diaries.

The Diary of a Modern Girl: Resourcefulness and the Escape to Freedom

The first part of the story belongs to Claudio’s mother, Liana Ruberl. Liana was an Italian-Jewish girl who grew up in Milan. Between 1935 and 1943, she kept a vibrant teenage diary (which later won a prestigious literary prize in Italy). Through her eyes, we do not read about concentration camps, but about a bourgeois, rebellious, and emancipated girl writing about........

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