Join folks from the BHS South America Group, on Monday, June 8th, from 6:30-8:30 pm, when author Haley Cohen Gilliland visits BHS to discuss A Flower Traveled in My Blood, a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a widely acclaimed book of 2025. During one of Argentina's military dictatorships, thousands of young people were abducted by the government, including hundreds of pregnant women — many of them Jewish —who were kept alive to give birth, and then executed. Their newborns were then handed to military families. For decades, a group of grandmothers, the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, never stopped searching for their stolen grandchildren, along the way helping pioneer groundbreaking genetic tests to prove the link between these grandparents and the lost children.
It is a story about memory, identity, justice — and what it means to never give up. Told through the lens of a Jewish Abuela, it is also very much a Jewish story.
Come join us, whether you’ve read the book or are just interested in learning more about this chapter of history. A light dinner will be available.
Please note this event is for BHS members only.
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