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Join the Friends of PUL and Dr. Tilar Mazzeo, New York Times bestselling author of “Sisters in Resistance,” to hear an exhilarating story about how three women risked their lives to ensure that the diaries of Galeazzo Ciano made it into the hands of the Allies during World War II. Ciano, the son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, and his foreign minister, began keeping diaries about Hitler’s inner circle in 1939, and used them to express his disgust of the Nazis and to capture “the political squabbles” between men like Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels. The efforts of his wife - Mussolini’s daughter, a spy sent by the Germans who became his lover, and the wife of an American banker saved the manuscripts for posterity. The diaries were ultimately used as evidence against the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials, and later, found their way to the archives housed in Princeton University Library’s Special Collections.

Current Friends of PUL members are invited to attend in person. Due to limited capacity, membership status will be checked after registration. Non-members will be placed on a waiting list for the in-person event and notified Monday, November 27 if there is space to attend in person.

The presentation will also be available by Zoom.

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