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Holocaust Remembrance: Dirkje Legerstee
Sanctuary UCC and Temple Shalom invite you to hear Dirkje Legerstee's gripping story of her family’s survival as World War II Nazi War victims. Through February 21, the Sanctuary Gallery is hosting Legerstee's exhibit, “Angels in Human Skin: A Family’s Survival of World War II,” which through images and stories documents her parents’ experience in surviving the Holocaust. Her father was a Dutch Christian and was taken by the Nazis as a labor slave, and her mother was a Polish…
Find out more »Holocaust Remembrance: Dirkje Legerstee
Sanctuary UCC and Grace Episcopal Church invite you to hear Dirkje Legerstee's gripping story of her family’s survival as World War II Nazi War victims. Through February 21, the Sanctuary Gallery is hosting Legerstee's exhibit, “Angels in Human Skin: A Family’s Survival of World War II,” which through images and stories documents her parents’ experience in surviving the Holocaust. Her father was a Dutch Christian and was taken by the Nazis as a labor slave, and her mother was a…
Find out more »The Last & Living Words of Mark
The Royall House & Slave Quarters presents the program, "The Last & Living Words of Mark: Following the Clues to the Enslaved Man’s Life, Afterlife, and Community." Mark was an enslaved Charlestown blacksmith, husband, and father. Accused of petit treason after he and co-conspirators were discovered in the poisoning death of their enslaver John Codman, in 1755 Mark was tried and found guilty, hanged, and gibbeted. Twenty years later, Paul Revere mentioned the gruesome landmark “where Mark was hung in chains”…
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