The Cuba We Lost

Join us for a conversation with Genie Milgrom, author of the new book The Cuba We Lost, Esther Kaufman and Eugenia Farin on memories from Cuba and getting out before everything changed.

About the book:

When the last witnesses are gone, only their memories and stories remain. This book ensures they are never forgotten.

Through the eyes of children and young adults, these pages capture the final years of a free Cuba, with an authenticity that history books alone cannot capture. They speak of families, traditions, school, friendships, faith, hope and fears, and of the heartbreaking decision that left hundreds of thousands to leave the only home they had ever known. More than sixty years later, these voices remind us that history lives not only in archives but in memory. Unless they are preserved, they will be lost forever.

This book is a tribute to a generation that carried Cuba…