Vendulka: A CEERES of Voices Conversation with Ondřej Kundra

Ondrej Kundra is a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief for the journal Respekt and has won numerous journalism awards for political analysis and investigative reporting. While researching Vendulka Vogl, a young girl whose picture, taken by famed Czech photographer Jan Lukas, came to symbolize the Holocaust, Kundra discovered that Vogl had, in fact, survived the camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Christianstadt, and had come to live in the US. Kundra’s book, Vendulka: Flight to Freedom, recounts her story of survival. The photography exhibition begins at 5:30 p.m. with the lecture starting at 6 p.m. The interlocutor will be Bozena Shallcross, professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. This event is sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian-Eurasian Studies and co-sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, International House, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. For information, please contact CEERES at ceeres@uchicago.edu or 773-702-0866. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact International House in advance of the program at 773-753-2274 or via email at I-house-programs@uchicago.edu.