It was 1950, in Huntsville, Alabama, when the sleepy town becomes home to 118 former Nazi scientists who are brought to the United States through a secret government-sponsored project called Operation Paperclip to work on the space program. Following the arrival of the Germans, Ben Low, a Jewish boy and Holocaust survivor living in Huntsville, is found hanging from a tree in the woods behind his high school. Was Ben’s death a suicide or something more sinister? Years later the discovery of a journal is the catalyst that encourages Ben’s childhood friend, Tommy Stern, to reexamine the facts about Ben’s death. In this new historical fiction, Whitewashed, we learn about the actual secret government program that inspired the novel. Sandy Berman is the author of Whitewashed and Klara with A K for which she was awarded the bronze medal for historical fiction from the Independent Book Publishers. Sandy is also the founding archivist of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum where she established the largest repository for Jewish historical research in the Southeast. As the archivist, Sandy spent years traveling to small towns throughout the South documenting Jewish life. Join us for a fascinating look into the history that inspired her new novel, and the story that so many Atlantans will find reminiscent of their childhoods and relevant to today. Zoom.