Julie Brill lives in Bedford, Massachusetts, and is at work on a memoir that seeks to tell the story of her Serbian family in the context of the largely untold history of the Holocaust in Serbia. She volunteers in middle schools and high schools to share her family’s Holocaust story. In addition to Kveller, her work has been featured in Alma, the Forward, and the Globe Post. Julie is a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, doula, and author of the anthology “Round the Circle: Doulas Share their Experiences.”
Here is information from Julie on Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews in Belgrade:
"Sephardic Jews lived in Belgrade from the early 1500s. There was a thriving community with the world's first Ladino printing press. Later, a much smaller Ashkenazi population came from across the Danube River. The groups maintained separate synagogues, schools, and cemeteries and spoke different languages.. My grandfather's parents were a mixed marriage, he was Ashkenazi and she was Sephardic. This was quite unusual for its time: turn of the last century."
And if you would like to know more about Julie's efforts to remember the past -- here are some links that she provided:
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2022/01/27/holocaust-remembrance-day-julie-brill
