Moderator Ronald Leopold delivered the following introduction to Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Last Train to London, a novel based on the true story of the Vienna Kindertransports and the heroic Dutch woman who led the rescues, Truus Wijsmuller.
In this 4th and final blog of our series about abolitionist John Brown, we wonder what to make of him: a hero or a villain?
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The American Women’s Club of Amsterdam & Amsterdam American Business Club will host a symposium on gender equality and the state of female leadership, moderated by John Adams Director Tracy Metz. The conversation will include career opportunities, leadership, entrepreneurship, education. Click here for tickets.
Peter Marks, of the Washington Post, reviews the new West Side Story on Broadway—directed by Ivo van Hove, the director of the International Theater Amsterdam. This modern, slimmed-down version is ‘gutsy’, ‘astonishing, breathless’ and even controversial. “In streamlining the script and finding his Tony and Maria, van Hove has … freshly exposed its passionate, throbbing heart.”