Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America
Faris Cassell, award-winning investigative journalist, earned her M.S. in journalism with honors from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in History from Mt. Holyoke College. She is the author of Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America (2023). Her first book, The Unanswered Letter, won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award. She lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon.
Marion Ein Lewin (née Hess) and her twin brother, Steven Hess, were only six years old when they were taken by the Nazis from Holland to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they endured brutal conditions and lived in a state of perpetual fear. The twins and their parents were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen for approximately one year, after narrowly escaping being sent to Auschwitz. They ultimately were liberated and moved to the United States in 1947.
This special Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at CMC.