Please join us for our FL JCC’s Summer Virtual Author Series.

Monday, June 30 at 3:30 pm with Ronald H. Balson, author of A Place to Hide

In Ronald Balson’s lat­est his­tor­i­cal nov­el, A Place to Hide, Ted Har­ti­gan, a non-Jew­ish Amer­i­can in his nineties, recounts his expe­ri­ence as a young US State Depart­ment staffer deployed to Ams­ter­dam dur­ing The Third Reich of the thir­ties and for­ties. He tells his sto­ry to Karyn, a Jew­ish Dutch expa­tri­ate and a sur­vivor of the Nazi occu­pa­tion, who now lives in Tel Aviv. She agrees to record Ted’s life sto­ry with the hope that the for­mer State Depart­ment offi­cial might help find her sis­ter, from whom she’s been sep­a­rat­ed since the war.

Ronald H. Bal­son is an attor­ney, pro­fes­sor, and writer. His nov­el The Girl From Berlin won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. He is also the author of Eli’s Promise, An Affair of Spies, Defend­ing Brit­ta Stein, Karolina’s Twins, The Trust, Sav­ing Sophie, and the inter­na­tion­al best­seller, Once We Were Broth­ers. He lives in Chicago.

Topic: A Place to Hide with author Ron Balson

Time: Jun 30, 2025 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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