NEW!

Video link to the lecture on 11/17/2021 by James Calaski: "Nazi Spies of Glen Rock"

https://youtu.be/8KhTaJasYlU

Link to a video of the Zoom presentation by Dr. James Kimble on September 16th, 2021:

https://youtu.be/T0nvp0fKsMA

Fall 2021-Spring 2022 Schedule

  Our list of speakers for the season should be as follows:

 Our list of speakers for the 2021-2022 season should be as follows:
*September 15th- Dr. Jim Kimble-"Uniting the Home Front in WWII: The Magazine Industry, the US Flag,   and  the United We Stand Campaign”
*October- 20th: Dr. Wendy Lower -"Hitler's Furies"
*November-TBD: James Calaski- "The Nazi Spies of Glen Rock"
*December 1 -Ray Boonhower: "War Diarist: The Many Battles of Richard Tregaskis"
*January-TBD- Dr. Steve Lomazow-TBD
*February 16th - Marcus Nannini- "The Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power"
*March 9 -Michael Tougias: "So Close to Home"
April 6, 2022: Bernice Lerner: "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen"
May4th, 2022: Randall Bytwerk-TBD

May26th Meeting

 May 26th NJ WWII Book Club Meeting

We have a two part meeting in which our guest speaker , Randall Bytwerk, will discuss his video which was recorded on C-Span. It runs an hour and then there is Q&A for 45 minutes, so you are encouraged to follow the first link to watch the video before the May 26th meeting. Otherwise, We will attempt to show the video at 6:00pm on Wednesday, May 26th after which Randall Bytwerk will be available for discussion. The video is entitled : "The Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler."

https://www.c-span.org/video/?416204-1/franklin-d-roosevelt-adolf-hitler

For more information by Randall Bytwerk, you can visit his website at: www.bytwerk.com

March 17th, 2021 Zoom Meeting

 The March 17th , 2021 presentation by Kathryn Smith,   "Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre: Heiress, Explorer, Socialite, Spy," can be accessed at 7:00 pm on Zoom from the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84774878009?pwd=L0J3bmxNd2d1NkQ4aWgxMW9wMkZodz09

Meeting ID: 847 7487 8009
Passcode: 860813

 Meeting ID and passcode normally are not needed but provided if there is difficulty with the link.

Partial 2020 and 2021 Schedule

 We have arranged the following speakers to give Zoom presentations to the NJ WWII Book Club:

December 9th at 7:00 pm:  Mr Michael Tougias:  "U-Boats so Close to Home"

January 20th, 2021: Karen Huntsberger: "Letters from a Navy Girl"

February 17th, 2021: Stan Moore: "Seesaw: How November '42 Shaped the Future"

Zoom Lecture with author Bryan Mark Rigg-October 7th, 7:00 pm

The NJ WWII Book Club will present a  Zoom online lecture by the author Bryan Mark Rigg on his book, " Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, October 7th, 2020.