The BookTalk discussion series of "Behind the Mask" will continue Sunday at Bismarck State College with Sabrina Zimering's World War II memoir about surviving the Holocaust.

AnnMarie Kajencki, BSC professor of English, will lead the public discussion from 1 to 3 p.m. in the library. Zimering will participate in the discussion by telephone.

Zimering is one of two teenage sisters who missed the Nazis' liquidation of the Polish ghetto by mere hours by hiding in a shed and listening all night to the screams of their fellow Jews.

"Hiding in the Open" recounts the sisters' ordeal and the good fortune of being helped by Catholic friends, who hid them and provided Aryan papers. The Jewish sisters lived by posing as Polish Catholics in Germany, where they worked as maids in a hotel housing Gestapo officers.

They survived by their wits, and after the war Zimering sent aid to help her friends in Poland.

She remained in Germany, graduating as a physician from Munich Medical School. Zimering then immigrated to Minneapolis, where she married, raised a family and practiced medicine for 42 years.

She and her book have received recognition in print and broadcast media, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune, American Jewish World and Minnesota Public Radio. A stage version of "Hiding in the Open," authored by playwright Kira Oblensky, had its world premiere in 2004 at the Great American History Theatre in St. Paul, Minn.

For more information, call 224-5450 or view www.bismarckstate.edu/booktalk07.pdf.