From April 12 until April 20, Bernice Eisenstein is a writer in residence in Amsterdam at the invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Eisenstein is also a guest at Women Inc. on April 14, and she will give a lecture in the Jewish Historical Museum.
Bernice Eisenstein was born in 1949 in Toronto, shortly after her parents immigrated to Canada. She is an artist whose illustrations have appeared in a variety of Canadian magazines and periodicals, including the Globe and Mail. She has worked as a freelance editor while also writing the occasional book review for the Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.
In the Netherlands she is foremost know for her book I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, a searing memoir told in a unique fusion of illustrations and prose. It was translated by Jenny de Jonge as Ik was een kind van Holocaust-overlevers (de Bezige Bij).
The Jewish Historical Museum organises the exhibition Superhelden en sjlemielen - Joodse herinnering in de stripkunst. In this exhibition the public can view eight of Eisenstein’s original book drawings and on April 13 she gives a lecture about her work in the museum.
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