About the Book

In Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, readers encounter a powerful and largely untold chapter of Holocaust history, told through one family’s story and a daughter’s enduring quest to understand the past that shaped her life.

From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to comprehend how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population—without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through meticulous research, chance discoveries, and three deeply emotional journeys to Serbia, Brill pieces together her family’s lost history, uncovers long-buried secrets, and restores to her father something the Nazis tried to erase: his own family story.

About the Author

Julie Brill is the author of Hidden in Plain Sight, which Menachem Kaiser has called “a powerful reminder of why our stories—personal, familial, historical—are so crucial.” She has written for Haaretz, The Forward, Kveller, The Times of Israel, Balkan Insight, and Boston’s National Public Radio station, among others. Brill regularly shares her family’s Holocaust history with middle and high school students through 3GNY and is a co-facilitator for Living Link’s WEDU training, working at the intersection of memory, education, and intergenerational dialogue.