With nearly a century behind her, Stella Levi never spoke in detail about her past, until Mighty Franks author & essayist Michael Frank visited her Greenwich Village apartment to ask about the Juderia in Rhodes, where she was part of a Sephardic Jewish community that was deported in its entirety to Auschwitz.
In the resulting book, a Wall Street Journal Top 10 of 2022, Stella reveals what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time—and to construct a life after that place vanished. Frank discusses her story and their transformative friendship in a conversation chaired by historian and author of Uprooted, Lyn Julius.
An event from Jewish Book Week 2023.
