CANCELED - Best selling author in Lake Tahoe: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust

This Event is Canceled - New York Times bestselling author and Holocaust historian Max Wallace will in Lake Tahoe to talk about his new book, In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust, on July 28, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at Chabad at Lake Tahoe.

The book details an audacious scheme by a rescue committee of Swiss Orthodox Jews led by a remarkable woman named Recha Sterbuch.

Wallace, will reveal newly discovered archival documents proving that the Committee deceived SS chief Heinrich Himmler into destroying the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and terminating the Final Solution in November 1944, a full six months before the end of the war, thus saving tens of thousands of Jews. The Canadian Jewish News described his book as "an impressive piece of historical scholarship and a very compelling chapter of Holocaust history." The books was recently awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Holocaust History.

Max Wallace is a journalist, filmmaker and Holocaust historian. Wallace’s previous books include The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich, about the Nazi collaboration of two American icons; and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America about Ali's battle against the US government over the Vietnam War, for which Ali wrote the foreword. In 2013, the book was adapted into a Hollywood film directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stephen Frears. Max has been a guest columnist for the Sunday New York Times, and contributed to the BBC.

Early Bird Tickets - Adults: $12 / Children & Students: $8 (Early Bird valid till 7/14). VIP tickets are $54 which includes a signed copy of the book in the Name of Humanity. To get tickets or for more information, visit www.JewishTahoe.com/SecretDeal.

Chabad at Lake Tahoe is located at 900 Ski Run Blvd, South Lake Tahoe.