Join us for a conversation with historian, biographer and former war correspondent Wendy Holden at Southwold Arts Centre, as part of Southwold Literary Festival! Wendy will be talking to us about her career as a respected journalist and her latest book The Teacher of Auschwitz, based on the inspiring true story of Fredy Hirsch.

Tickets are £7.55 each (including booking fee). Available to book from Southwold Library, from Southwold Arts Centre, or টিকিটসোর্সে অনলাইনে.

Wendy Holden was a respected journalist and war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of more than thirty-five non-fiction titles and three novels featuring remarkable men and women, many of which are international bestsellers and several of which have been adapted for film, TV, and radio. Her books include Born Survivors, the bestselling story of three mothers who hid their pregnancies from the Nazis, now published in twenty-four countries, and the No.1 bestseller Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, the memoir of Captain Sir Tom Moore.

Assiduously researched and drawn from archives and survivor testimonies, in The Teacher of Auschwitz historian and biographer Wendy Holden tells the inspirational and uplifting true story of Alfred “Fredy” Hirsch, a young Jewish teacher and athlete who risked everything to protect children in Auschwitz.

This event takes place at Southwold Arts Centre, St Edmund’s Hall, IP18 6JP.

Southwold Literary Festival has been organised in collaboration with Southwold Arts Centre, Friends of Southwold Library, and Suffolk Community Libraries.