This Friends of the Library presentation has been planned for quite some time with much anticipation.  Leon Malmed is a full-time South Lake Tahoe resident and the author of We Survived...At Last I Speak, the true story of his and his sister’s escape from the Holocaust, in Occupied France, with the help of their courageous and heroic French neighbors.  It is a story of goodness triumphing once more over evil.

During our last road trip south, I read this amazing book out loud to Steve, and at several places in the book I had to stop, due to my inability to see through the tears.

Mr. Malmed told his story to an audience which sat in complete silence. The only sound heard were tears.  It is an almost unbelievable tale of survival in a world full of hopelessness. Adding to the powerfulness of the message, the documentary, "17 rue St Fiacre" was shown.  This is the film of Leon and his sister's return to the apartment where their life was  forever changed.

Jenny and Bob were among the 110+ attendees who were mesmerized by this story.