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Author, Lou Pechi, will discuss his book I Am Lubo. This is the true story of a Croatian, Jewish boy, growing up before, during, and after the Holocaust. At the age of seven, Lubo’s parents sent him to live with Catholic relatives in Brod who passed him off as their son. At the age of eight, he was arrested by the Nazis; he was ready to be sent to a concentration camp when, with the help of friends, Lubo was released, escaped, and joined his parents in Italy. This story takes Lubo to the Allied liberation of Rome, his return to Communist Yugoslavia, emigration to Israel and finally to the U.S. Lou Pechi is Lubo. Pechi writes from a child’s perspective, and what it was like to constantly have to adjust to an ever-changing identity in order to survive; necessity required him to change his name, religion, country and language, often without the presence of his parents.