Join us on Wednesday, March 30th at 4 pm for a virtual event in partnership with Warwick's: Kenneth Kales, founder and publisher of Kales Press, in conversation with John Evans of DIESEL, A Bookstore for a special discussion, How Publishing Works for Independent Publishers. Kales Press was founded in 1999 and publishes books that make a difference through an emphasis on world-class nonfiction by distinguished authors including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, and in collaboration with distinguished institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress and the British Monarchy Royal Collection.

This event is free to attend and will be hosted on Zoom. Register here!

The conversation will include discussion of the book In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light, which is a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Nonfiction.

"This sto­ry has haunt­ed me since I was a child," begins Anne Sin­clair in a per­son­al jour­ney to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather’s, Léonce Schwartz. What her trib­ute reveals is part mem­oir, part his­tor­i­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion of a less­er known chap­ter of the Holo­caust: the Nazi’s mass arrest, in French the word for this is rafle and there is no equiv­a­lent in Eng­lish that cap­tures the hor­ror, on Decem­ber 12, 1941 of influ­en­tial Jews -- the doc­tors, pro­fes­sors, artists and oth­ers at the upper lev­els of French society -- who were then impris­oned just fifty miles from Paris in the Com­pieg­ne-Roy­al­lieu con­cen­tra­tion camp. Those who did not per­ish there, were tak­en by the infa­mous one-way trains to Auschwitz; except for the few to escape that fate. Léonce Schwartz was among them.