3GNY Book Release and Author Talk with Julie Brill
Monday, April 28, 2025
8:00pm ET
On Zoom: Register Here
Hidden in Plain Sight tells a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and of a daughter's enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. Join us as author Julie Brill sits with 3GNY Executive Director Dave Reckess for an intimate discussion about the Holocaust in Serbia, Julie’s journey researching and writing this book, and how volunteering with 3GNY’s WEDU program helped her to form her family’s story.
About Hidden in Plain Sight
From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through exacting research, a bit of luck, and three emotional trips to Serbia, she pieces together her family's lost past, unearths secrets, and returns to her father a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.
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About Julie
As a child, Julie Brill held two conflicting beliefs. She knew Germans had murdered her Jewish grandfather in occupied Yugoslavia, yet she somehow believed the Holocaust had never come to his hometown of Belgrade. The family anecdotes her father passed down, a blend of his early memories and what his mother told him, didn’t match what Julie had heard about Germany, Poland, and Anne Frank in Holland during World War II.
With so few Jewish survivors and descendants from Serbia, the story of the Shoah there has gone untold. Julie’s quest to understand and share what she learned led to Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia.
Julie has written for Haaretz, the Forward, Kveller, WBUR’s Cognocenti, The Times of Israel, Balkan Insight, and elsewhere. She shares her family’s experiences in the Holocaust in middle and high school classrooms through 3GNY and Living Links.
Additionally, she is a lactation consultant, doula, childbirth educator, and the author of the anthology Round the Circle: Doulas Share Their Experiences. She graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Sociology and Gender Studies and is the mother of two adult daughters.